BFG 8800GT OC x2

[Mousemonkey]

yeah, I noticed I'm not really playing anything from that list myself. I do wonder why the forceware 169's don't report the sli mode correctly for other games though.

One of life's unknowns I'm afraid.

 

[pauldh]

I hope that means something to someone.

Not on NV's site yet so I haven't tried them. But beta 171.16's are available here:
http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=6420

Hmm, in their forum they mention the 171.23 is now whql. Why is NV so slow to get them up on their site. let other sites/partners host it first to save bandwidth hits? I might have to grab the beta:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/ForceWare-171.23-XP-(32-bit)-download-1852.html

 

[Mousemonkey]

Not on NV's site yet so I haven't tried them. But beta 171.16's are available here:
http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=6420

Hmm, in their forum they mention the 171.23 is now whql. Why is NV so slow to get them up on their site. let other sites/partners host it first to save bandwidth hits? I might have to grab the beta:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/ForceWare-171.23-XP-(32-bit)-download-1852.html

Aaaah, I'm not a fan of beta's and as I don't have any problems with the 169.21's I'll let others play at being guinea pig's.

 

[pauldh]

I like running betas when they specifically address SLI like the 169.28 did.

I have been running the 171.23 drivers for a couple hours now. Crysis benchmarking gained 0.5 fps about at most settings but dropped .5 fps at 4x/16x. Tried 4x/16x again in a demanding level and it was still pretty choppy, probably out of vram at those settings. Overall seems the same to me.

I then moved onto Oblivion and the forced aa/af in game profiles seems to be working like a charm now with these drivers. Played about 45 minutes of Oblivion and had no problems. So unless I find any issues, they are keepers for me.

 

[Carlovfx]

In the end which is the only solutiuon to my problem? Installing XP??? XP32? I need a 64bit since i will need 8gb of ram minimum for my job.

 

[Carlovfx]

Ok,
I installed 171.16 from guru3d.com and now everything is working ok. On 3DMark06 i get 81fps average with 1920x1200 and 4x AA, it never goes under 29fps, that's what i mean when i say SLI. The Nvidia Adrianne demo is working really smoothly with 1920x1200. Only crysis is the same as before, impossible to activate AA or i'll get 20fps maximum with everything on high. Maybe some setting???

 

[Carlovfx]

FSX is running pretty good with the SLI setting, i have to understand if is better single-gpu or frame step rendering...