R520 (ATI next gen) delayed

[Ackmed]

Originally posted by: Rollo
Here I'm saying that as an early adopter of SLI, I'll get to spend this whole year playing at next gen single card performance levels. Now, this is where it apparently got tricky for some:

Whole year? Hardly. They didnt even get profiles out till just a while back. Most of the year yes, but dont pretent SLI was mature in January...

 

[deadseasquirrel]

Originally posted by: Ackmed

Originally posted by: Rollo
Here I'm saying that as an early adopter of SLI, I'll get to spend this whole year playing at next gen single card performance levels. Now, this is where it apparently got tricky for some:

Whole year? Hardly. They didnt even get profiles out till just a while back. Most of the year yes, but dont pretent SLI was mature in January...

Nobody needed to wait until nV got profiles out. The ability to edit the nvapps.xml file has been there the whole time. And, really, for many of the popular games out there, it was working out of the box in Feb when I began using it (Far Cry, HL2, D3, Swat 4, UT2k4). Granted Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne didn't exactly see much of a benefit, since you can run that full blown with a 6600 as it is.

nV simply added the ability to make/change profiles easily with the 71.89 drivers, so no need to edit the .xml file anymore. It's easier now, but it does the same thing.

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: Ackmed

Originally posted by: Rollo
Here I'm saying that as an early adopter of SLI, I'll get to spend this whole year playing at next gen single card performance levels. Now, this is where it apparently got tricky for some:

Whole year? Hardly. They didnt even get profiles out till just a while back. Most of the year yes, but dont pretent SLI was mature in January...

:roll:
Way to split hairs for your big red God Ackmed!

This "profile" business is way misunderstood by non SLI users- the vast majority of profiles just specify AFR vs SFR. You've always been able to create your own very easily, and shortly after SLI was released Coolbits added the ability to switch from AFR to SFR on "non profiled" games with a drop down menu.

Yet if I had a buck for every time someone like you posted "You can't play any game with SLI except the ones they have profiles for!" I'd be fishing all day tomorrow instead of just leaving early.

 

[302efi]

Originally posted by: Rollo


This "profile" business is way misunderstood by non SLI users- .

You never fail to make me laugh

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: 302efi

Originally posted by: Rollo


This "profile" business is way misunderstood by non SLI users- .

You never fail to make me laugh

Why is that funny 302efi?

Here's a real life example for you-

I happened upon Hexen 2 from 1996 tonite, and installed it. After searching the web a bit and finding that I needed to remove the Glide .dll to run it in Open GL, I thought "I wonder how SLI would work on this?"

So I toggled AFR for non-profiled games, fired it up. Uh oh. No dice, massive corruption.

So I toggle SFR for non profiled games in the control panel, and voila', one of 1996s better games running in the supposedly finicky 2005 SLI, smooth as silk, no issues.

Like I said, non-SLI users like Ackmed make WAY too big a deal out of the profiles. For the most part, the profiles are just the results of nVidia taking the time to try the game so you don't have to see which type of SLI works better.

They apparently haven't gotten around to Hexen2 yet......



BTW- if anyone with a X800 has Hexen 2, give GLHexen2 a try. It seems to me when I had the X800XT PE I had some trouble with the old Open GL games. I'd be interested to know if this will work at all on a X800.