VISTA SLI NVIDIA COMING SOON

[tuteja1986]

http://blogs.nvidia.com/develo..._vista_c.html#comments

"some good news. Our Vista SLI driver is coming soon, very soon. With it comes a world of possibilities for extra performance scaling for DX10 and Vista. SLI has proved to be hugely popular, we have shipped over millions and millions of SLI GeForce GPU's and SLI enabled motherboards.

For developers being able to double the graphics performance of your development system is enormously valuable. Todays SLI enabled GeForce 8800 is tomorrows mainstream graphics performance to target for your next PC game."

 

[Matt2]

I hope they spent the last 5 months writing some awesome drivers and SLI profiles.

Simply "enabling" SLI is not going to cut it as far as I'm concerned. I wanna see some spectacular gains in the 70-80% range in more than a few games.

 

[tuteja1986]

not last 5 months... they had years. Microsoft released the Vista driver API years and years ago (2003) but to be fair they started working on the vista driver a year ago.

 

[BFG10K]

Oh wow, so they don't even have SLI working in Vista yet? That's worse than I thought - I thought they just didn't have DX10 SLI.

Meanwhile ATi has Crossfire DX10 working in Vista with initial release drivers.

Were are those that were claiming nVidia has better driver support?

 

[Woofmeister]

Originally posted by: Matt2
I hope they spent the last 5 months writing some awesome drivers and SLI profiles.

Simply "enabling" SLI is not going to cut it as far as I'm concerned. I wanna see some spectacular gains in the 70-80% range in more than a few games.

Hell, I'll settle for a 15% increase and a consistent frame rate to start with.

Wonder what Company of Heroes will look like in DX10 with SLI Antialiasing.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
Oh wow, so they don't even have SLI working in Vista yet? That's worse than I thought - I thought they just didn't have DX10 SLI.

Meanwhile ATi has Crossfire DX10 working in Vista with initial release drivers.

Were are those that were claiming nVidia has better driver support?

Oh but only 5% of people currently have Vista, so XP is all that matters

/Nvidia fanboy

 

[BFG10K]

I completely agree that XP is more important but I still get odd looks in the nVidia forums when I demand regular XP driver updates.

 

[vhx]

They already have SLI support, just not SLI support for DX10. Which is not that big of a deal considering there aren't any full DX10 games yet. http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_158.24.html

Little snip:

# This driver supports the following 3D features:
* Single GPU support
o DirectX 9 support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs
o DirectX 10 support for GeForce 8 series GPUs
o OpenGL support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs
* NVIDIA SLI support
o DirectX 9 support for 6/7/8 series GPUs
o OpenGL support for 6/7/8 series GPUs

 

[BFG10K]

Hmm, maybe they are just talking about DX10 SLI then.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
Hmm, maybe they are just talking about DX10 SLI then.

Nope, that can't be it either. The 158.45's support DX10 SLI. Either they're talking about SLI for DX10 games using DX9 rendering features(which the 158.45 drivers aren't clear on since they're technically 8-series only), or they're talking about getting Quad-SLI working, which currently doesn't work.

 

[Woofmeister]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: BFG10K
Hmm, maybe they are just talking about DX10 SLI then.

Nope, that can't be it either. The 158.45's support DX10 SLI. Either they're talking about SLI for DX10 games using DX9 rendering features(which the 158.45 drivers aren't clear on since they're technically 8-series only), or they're talking about getting Quad-SLI working, which currently doesn't work.

Except that Company of Heroes, which is the only actual DX10 game out right now, will not run in SLI. Also, as of Forceware version 158.45, NVIDIA SLI antialiasing is still not supported.

 

[InterTech]

Originally posted by: Woofmeister
Except that Company of Heroes, which is the only actual DX10 game out right now, will not run in SLI. Also, as of Forceware version 158.45, NVIDIA SLI antialiasing is still not supported.

Does the Lost Planet demo count? I really enjoy it in DX10 and SLI seems to be working. Also, all this time I thought AA was working! It does take performance hit when I change to different AA setting. Also, the jags are worst looking when AA is turned off...Is this just my imagination?

 

[nitromullet]

My guess is that they are talking about WHQL DirectX10 SLI Vista drivers. From looking at their site it looks like only beta drivers support DX10 SLI at the moment.

 

[Woofmeister]

Originally posted by: InterTech

Originally posted by: Woofmeister
Except that Company of Heroes, which is the only actual DX10 game out right now, will not run in SLI. Also, as of Forceware version 158.45, NVIDIA SLI antialiasing is still not supported.

Does the Lost Planet demo count? I really enjoy it in DX10 and SLI seems to be working. Also, all this time I thought AA was working! It does take performance hit when I change to different AA setting. Also, the jags are worst looking when AA is turned off...Is this just my imagination?

You got Lost Planet demo to run? Congratulations! Me, I kept getting the "driver stopped responding" error message in both DX9 versions and DX10. Didn't matter what driver version I used, it tanked. Anyway, IMO no, I don't think DX10 demos and benchmarks (like Call of Juarez) count. You and I both spent a ton of money on two 8800 GTXs to play full games in SLI, not to run benchmarks.

With regard to AA, regular antialiasing definitely works under Vista, however the special SLI rendering mode known as SLI Antialiasing does not.

 

[InterTech]

Originally posted by: Woofmeister
You got Lost Planet demo to run? Congratulations! Me, I kept getting the "driver stopped responding" error message in both DX9 versions and DX10. Didn't matter what driver version I used, it tanked. Anyway, IMO no, I don't think DX10 demos and benchmarks (like Call of Juarez) count. You and I both spent a ton of money on two 8800 GTXs to play full games in SLI, not to run benchmarks.

With regard to AA, regular antialiasing definitely works under Vista, however the special SLI rendering mode known as SLI Antialiasing does not.

Yes, I got the DX10 version to run just fine. The two playable levels looks great and pretty fun. Can't wait for the release. I do agree about benching..I don't have time for that crap.
So there's another rendering mode? Ok, I didn't know. Thanks for the link...

 

[gregor7777]

so...does anyone have 7-series SLI'd in Vista? Any reports on performance/profiles?

 

[LOUISSSSS]

skimmed this thread only...


haha wth SLI coming SOON?????? geez, hasn't anyone gotten 8800gtx sli in vista 32 or 64 yet?

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: Woofmeister

Originally posted by: InterTech

Originally posted by: Woofmeister
Except that Company of Heroes, which is the only actual DX10 game out right now, will not run in SLI. Also, as of Forceware version 158.45, NVIDIA SLI antialiasing is still not supported.

Does the Lost Planet demo count? I really enjoy it in DX10 and SLI seems to be working. Also, all this time I thought AA was working! It does take performance hit when I change to different AA setting. Also, the jags are worst looking when AA is turned off...Is this just my imagination?

You got Lost Planet demo to run? Congratulations! Me, I kept getting the "driver stopped responding" error message in both DX9 versions and DX10. Didn't matter what driver version I used, it tanked. Anyway, IMO no, I don't think DX10 demos and benchmarks (like Call of Juarez) count. You and I both spent a ton of money on two 8800 GTXs to play full games in SLI, not to run benchmarks.

With regard to AA, regular antialiasing definitely works under Vista, however the special SLI rendering mode known as SLI Antialiasing does not.

i got lost planet dx10 to run on my system no problem....