Riddick wont run with SLI system**resolved** cheers lads!

[otispunkmeyer]

well these are XFX 7800gt's.....clocked 450Mhz/1050Mhz

latest drivers....just done a run of 3D05, and i get about 8600, i dont think thats quite right correct? 7800gts in SLI shpuld be more near 10k right?

also in the drivers.....theres SLI single gpu rendering mode, and SLI multi GPU rendering mode

1) whats the difference?
2) why do i get roughly the same score regardless?

cheers

edit1: ran 3d05 without the load balancer thing.....score went up to 9500 ish....thats more like it

edit2: heh

now i cant play riddick!.....get an error saying that the game needs graphics drivers with opengl 1.3 support!

should i re-install DX9c again?

 

[xtknight]

Well I assume single-GPU isn't SLI at all. Any further than that, who knows. I think you know what Cpt. Obvious would say (SLI enabled in BIOS? Bridge? Right drivers? Plugged in? )

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: xtknight
Well I assume single-GPU isn't SLI at all. Any further than that, who knows. I think you know what Cpt. Obvious would say (SLI enabled in BIOS? Bridge? Right drivers? Plugged in? )

Cpt Obvious would be correct.....yep all plugged in, SLI is working cos ive had that SLI meter bar thingy running.....the load balance meter so its working i just maybes havent got something set quite right

 

[xtknight]

Maybe try different balancing methods (AFR or SFR/SFR2 and whatever else they have in terms of SLI profiles). Where was the meter bar? In the middle or was it all the way at the top or bottom pretty much? You'll only see the meter in SFR modes.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: xtknight
Maybe try different balancing methods (AFR or SFR/SFR2 and whatever else they have in terms of SLI profiles). Where was the meter bar? In the middle or was it all the way at the top or bottom pretty much? You'll only see the meter in SFR modes.

it was at the right hand side......with the green bar expanding to the top n bottom or shrinking to the centre, not sure what rendering mode that is though

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
well these are XFX 7800gt's.....clocked 450Mhz/1050Mhz

latest drivers....just done a run of 3D05, and i get about 8600, i dont think thats quite right correct? 7800gts in SLI shpuld be more near 10k right?

also in the drivers.....theres SLI single gpu rendering mode, and SLI multi GPU rendering mode

1) whats the difference?
2) why do i get roughly the same score regardless?

cheers.

1. You want to have it set on SLI.
2. You want to install Coolbits and set AFR1 or 2 as your default for games that don't have profiles.
3. Don't know about your 3DMark- is it in line with others that have similar rigs on FutureMark?

 

[nRollo]

Done my friend- I'd unistall that Active Armor and give it a try too. Could be that's where you're at due to other limitations also, like CPU?

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: Rollo
Done my friend- I'd unistall that Active Armor and give it a try too. Could be that's where you're at due to other limitations also, like CPU?

possibly....i did only buy a 3200 venice, not got round to squeezing more beans out of it yet mind.

its weird though because it got nearly 10k yesterday....but ive reinstalled XP since then as i didnt know active armour was foobared.

gonna test some games out now. if its smooth in them then 3dmark doesnt really matter

 

[otispunkmeyer]

heh

now i cant play riddick!.....get an error saying that the game needs graphics drivers with opengl 1.3 support!

should i re-install DX9c again?

 

[otispunkmeyer]

bump

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
heh

now i cant play riddick!.....get an error saying that the game needs graphics drivers with opengl 1.3 support!

should i re-install DX9c again?

Reinstalling DirectX won't do anything for a problem with graphics drivers. You likely need to reinstall the drivers and get rid of any tweaks you're using to increase your score in 3DMark.

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

Do you have the latest patch for Riddick? When I got it, I heard something about it messed up on detecting OpenGL and it was fixed in the patch. I'm not too sure of the details, but it could work!

 

[xtknight]

Never hurts to read the release notes. NVIDIA's notes say OpenGL on Riddick fails on some 7800/6800 systems and to install the 1.1 patch to fix it.

http://www.vugames.com/file_list.do?gamePlatformId=1839

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: xtknight
Never hurts to read the release notes. NVIDIA's notes say OpenGL on Riddick fails on some 7800/6800 systems and to install the 1.1 patch to fix it.

http://www.vugames.com/file_list.do?gamePlatformId=1839

release notes! PAH!...........i had 7800gts to try out, you must be mental if you think i was gonna put off playing to read them lol!

played splintercell instead.........i cant believe the smoothness.

ill get the patch in a sec, try out the 2.0++ shader model, see if that can bring these bad boys to their knees.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

cheers guys :thumbsup: