New Nvidia beta drivers and still no trace of an official SLI profile
 

on NOV 28th Nvidia released the 310.64 - BETA drivers and guess what...

NO SLI PROFILE!!!!

And the so called "final patch" was made oficial and launched to steam a while ago...

I gues nVidia refuses to work on a piece of software which is not even supported by its own devs.

too bad, because any of the unofficial SLI profiles or the one provided by Luthier(RIP) work smoothly for me

they're working on it...LOL

Frustrating I know, posted a request on the Nvidia forums (1/11/12) for an official Sli profile but have had no reply. There have been 3 beta releases since then, I'm begining to wonder if the team even put a request to Nvidia for support.

Sent a PM to Black Six on the Sli progress with Nvidia, his answer was : -

"Sorry can't answer that as the people responsible for that have left the team."

Doesn't sound like we will see any "official" support from Nvidia.

Who hasn't???

I'm afraid that what we've got is a good as it's going to get. CloD is done. No more official updates of any kind.

so much for my 3x1920x1200 config...

At least ROF (and I assume BOST) has working SLI.

jcenzano,

R.o.F. has a working Sli, maybe they can get B.o.S. working with Sli.

SLI was never going to have a profile, we were just fobbed off constantly by Luthier. I remember asking him well before release about SLI, and he assured us then that it would work out of the box, his exact words were, 'of course it will work, why wouldn't it'. Then on release he blamed the epilepsy filter for breaking SLI, then when the filter was removed it still didn't function.

why don't you forget it already ??? there's no SLI official support for CLoD, afaik Nvidia doesn't even know about CLoD. and if it does, it doesn't want it's name associated with it.

SLI went down the same river that took the clouds, weather, everything that was promised and never made it to light.

again, take a look
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GtsNqaE1yU

so CLoD is what it is, let's hope the new BOS doesn't disappoint, these guys now have the experience of a failed product so maybe they can avoid some pitfalls and make better development choices

Actually, if you look at the actual CLOD, everything except clouds and weather made it into release, but the PCs were not capable performance wise. Maybe in a few years we will get back to clod engine.

maybe make one of those whitehouse.gov petitions to make nvidia make one of these profiles...

whql is out, no sli profile

Cloud generator was in the release and worked OK, the only weather available was thunderstorms though.

It's also very clear from that video that the map was redone for the release version. Why I don't know. (game was still Open GL at that point - and they probably didn't have to use Speed Tree then either!)

I watched that video that came with il-2 46 many times and was hugely excited by it. I love the way the terrain looks in the video - that was what I was expecting. Would have been very happy if we'd got it.

LOFT mentioned that he is in charge of CloD now and even thinks about how to make a Win8 compatibility patch for CloD. Contact him if they can send a request to NV through their channels. Should not take more than 5 minutes probably.

Clearly this is not their priority.

Have all of you that have and are using Sli tried Luthier's Sli code release?, if not give it a try, I have installed it and it is working for me.

Would still like to see some official support from Nvidia though.

Ive got a couple gtx 460s for sale if anyone is interested.

Are you giving up on Sli Katdog or just upgrading?. I'm running 2 x GTS 450's and have good performance. Your GTX 460's should be great for C.o.D. in Sli, they will eat B.o.S. with the engine they will be using.

Upgraded to 670. I wanted to murder this damn sim once and for all, no questions asked.

Getting ready to fly some campaigns

Im glad you got it going...for some reason my rig didnt like the Nvidia Profiler

Good luck with the 670, should be a great card.

I have tried all the profiles I could find in the forums, including luthier's. still i don't get any performance increase and instead my FPS become erratic and microstutters are bad.

Too bad, because i just upgraded to a 3x24'' (1290x1200) and i really need working SLI for that.

I guess I will have to park CLOD and wait for BOS, since ROF SLI is working great for me and if they are using the same engine i assume SLI will work in BOS.

jcenzano,

How did you instal Luthier's profile? does it show in Nvidia Inspector?, if not then it hasn't been installed correctly.
Also if you have updated the drivers then the profile will have to be re-installed as it has no official support with Nvidia and will be deleted with the new driver instal.

Luthier's profile is easy to instal if you follow the correct proceedure. Luthier mentions a profiler from the Russian site, you don't need that, Nvidia Inspector will do the same thing and is easy to use. There are a couple of tricks that I've applied on top of the profile and I now have smooth performance even down at roof level over London.

The main reason Sli works well with R.o.F. is that the fps are limited (now there's a clue for you). If you would like to try again I will help.

Wow! I missed this one. Do you know if this is still on the cards? If it was it would be a fantastic way of bringing together the two communities and forging ties!

Cheers!

Skoshi,

Somwhere over at the new forum I read that they would not be answering anything about C.o.D., that is finished. I also PM Black Six over there as his message box was full here about Sli and all I got in reply was that "the people responsible for that had left the company". If Loft was taking over C.o.D. BS would have known, so can't see that happening. Looks like what we have with Sli is all we will get. Don't really care now I have it working smoothly anyway.
All I was hoping to do was to help others get the best possible from their Sli setup. If they don't need or want the help that's ok too, I'm really happy with sim now I have it working ok with Sli.

This works. tried it last night and went from 10-25 fps to 30-80 fps
470's in SLI. 296.10 drivers are the last ones that worked properly for me.
Any newer drivers throttle one of my cards back to 5%.

Both cards match each other in Afterburner too

I can get the same performance with my Sli but have the fps limited to 35 and find the game play is smooth now.

If you want to try the fps limit do that in your afterburner and in Nvidia Inspector as well.

Cheers

Rick

I think i'm using Luthers SLI code but am not sure, where is that code change and I'll double check.

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If you have it installed correctly it will show in "Nvidia Inspector" profile list, also in the Nvidia control panel. Look for this: -

"Il2: Cliffs of Dover"

I think you'll like that 670. I don't fly on line much but, off line, I can max everything without shadows. With shadows, I get small, occassional stutters over London. Good card. I do have a ton of RAM (32G), which might be part of the reason for my "success."