Thread on Flaw on Crossfire/SLI and game issue with CRossfire and SLI setup

[tuteja1986]

I want a list of games that have issue with Crossfire and SLI setup ?
What do you guys hate about SLI or Crossfire and would see like to be fixed?

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hardware Issues

SLI
Nvidia's G70 core can not do HDR with AA so having an SLI setup with 78XX or 6XXX for playing new games and upcoming games like Oblivion , UT2007 at high res with HDR/SM3.0 and AA on is impossible due to hardware limitation on the cores.

Crossfire





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Games

Crossfire
Project Slowblind << performance decrease
Black and White << performance decrease

SLI
Project Slowblind << performance decrease

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anyone with issue with SLI or crossfire share your thoughts so i can build up a nice list of issues



http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/ati-crossfire-x1000_26.html >> compatibility chart on few games


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[fierydemise]

Smart idea, if this doesn't turn into a complete flamefest then it definately deserves a sticky

 

[tuteja1986]

Originally posted by: fierydemise
Smart idea, if this doesn't turn into a complete flamefest then it definately deserves a sticky

I hope to god..
As long as few memeber don't get personal.

 

[Ackmed]

Perhaps if you stuck to facts, instead of opinions it would help. "Crossfire dongle thingo makes everyone not happy" It doesnt make me unhappy, and wouldnt influence my buying decision at all. Not all Crossfire motherboards were not "doomed" with bugs. The one had problems, that doesnt mean they all did. Also, "SLI can't do HDR With AA because of hardware limitation", while this is a fact, is has nothing to do with SLI, and shouldnt be a negative about SLI. It has to do with the GPU, not SLI.

On topic, I dont hate anything about SLI. I would like a way to monitor both GPU's temps at once once, but thats only a very small annoyance. I wish you could change the SLI rendering method without creating a new profile, its read only as a default. Again, a small issue and doesnt really bother me.

 

[Yreka]

Does this include games that see little or no benefet ?

 

[Zstream]

If you do not want this turning into a flam fest then please stick to facts and not opinions. Who cares about a frieking dongle? And a motherboard with issues well can you please post all the bad SLI ones ? I swear people are not smart around here

 

[tuteja1986]

Originally posted by: Yreka
Does this include games that see little or no benefet ?

yeah anything :! share any thought you may have on SLI or crossfire :!

 

[deadseasquirrel]

Originally posted by: Ackmed
I wish you could change the SLI rendering method without creating a new profile, its read only as a default. Again, a small issue and doesnt really bother me.

You can use nHancer to do it (which is very easy to do and has a lot of other tweaks), or you can manually edit the nvapps.xml file, which is also easy to do. I've done both, and consider myself pretty good at goofing around with profiles outside of the nvidia control panel, so lemme know if you need any help for specific games.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

in both NFS:MW and Colin Mcrea 2005, SLI seems to get bogged down at certain points, certainly you can see this on HOCP benchies, the SLI scores much lower minimum frames that the single card solution which is odd

CMR5 seems to get very jittery specially when the sun is in front of you, shining through the tree's with AA on, i tried Transparency AA and Tried without, the result is the same.