Just installed another GTX 460 in SLI - at last I can fly properly

[Bokononist]

Originally Posted by HurricaneDriver

I've just bought another 1Gb GTX 460 to use in SLI, and I'm amazed at the difference in the sim. It's actually really flyable for the first time, especially with Track IR 5. I thought there was limited SLI capability in COD? Now all we need are better sounds, and I reckon we're getting somewhere. It's starting to come together!

Just been doing a little benchmarking on my system, I'm running one 460 with a 2500k cpu and on mostly medium to high settings getting 40fps avarage 51 max 29 min close to the ground @ 1920x1080. I have another 460 arriving tommorow for some SLI goodness, can you tell me what fps you are getting now compared to your single 460 setup?
ps I'm talking beta patch figures, my performance has been improved noticably with the beta.

[r0bc]

Originally Posted by HurricaneDriver

Haven't had any time to fiddle with things yet, apart from enabling SLI.

Are you saying the only thing you did is enable SLI in the Nvidia control panel?

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by HurricaneDriver

I've just bought another 1Gb GTX 460 to use in SLI, and I'm amazed at the difference in the sim. It's actually really flyable for the first time, especially with Track IR 5. I thought there was limited SLI capability in COD? Now all we need are better sounds, and I reckon we're getting somewhere. It's starting to come together!

I recently upgraded my GTX 280 to a GTX 570.. But I did take pause and consider getting two GTX 460! The price is right.. but what with all the sli stuff going on and heat issues I chickend out and got the 570.. Maybe in six months Ill pick up a 2nd 570 when the price drops.. But for now I have all the settings set to max and the fps is good to go.. Only every so often will I see a pause/studder

[HurricaneDriver]

Originally Posted by r0bc

Are you saying the only thing you did is enable SLI in the Nvidia control panel?

Certainly did. How do I bring up my FPS?

[r0bc]

That don't enable SLI..... COD don't have a SLI profile.

[r0bc]

Originally Posted by HurricaneDriver

Certainly did. How do I bring up my FPS?

Just use Afterburner or Precision you'll see your FPS but it'll also see your second card doing nothing.

[ATAG_Snapper]

Originally Posted by r0bc

That don't enable SLI..... COD don't have a SLI profile.

So your Custom Profile for launcher.exe isn't working for you?


Quote:
stl Junior Member Join Date: May 2011
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Working SLI-Bits to edit with NVIDIA Inspector 1.9.5.5

Click at Profile Settings (besides the "Driver Version"),
create Custom Profile and click "add application to current profile" to add launcher.exe.
edit:
SLI compatibility bits (DX10): 0x000000F5

NVIDIA predefined SLI mode on DirectX 10: SLI_PREREFINED_MODE_DX10_FORCE_AFR

click on "Apply changes"

[r0bc]

Originally Posted by Snapper

So your Custom Profile for launcher.exe isn't working for you?

Actually Snapper for me its not, it runs alot smoother with one card and I was asking HurricaneDriver what he did to make it work.

[HurricaneDriver]

With TrackIR COD was pretty unpleasant until I installed my second card yesterday. The whole game is so much smoother, and all I did was enable SLI in Nvidia properties. SLI must be working. ROF is also that much better (I did manually enable SLI in ROF though). Not sure - but SLI seems to be working. Sorry, don't feel like mucking around with FPS counts, but I've found if a sim runs smoothly it greatly adds to the immersion, and I pretty much have 95% of that now, whereas I had 70% before the upgrade.

[HurricaneDriver]

Originally Posted by ACE-OF-ACES

I recently upgraded my GTX 280 to a GTX 570.. But I did take pause and consider getting two GTX 460! The price is right.. but what with all the sli stuff going on and heat issues I chickend out and got the 570.. Maybe in six months Ill pick up a 2nd 570 when the price drops.. But for now I have all the settings set to max and the fps is good to go.. Only every so often will I see a pause/studder

I know what you mean there about power and heat issues. I was pretty reluctant to go with SLI, but I added a good quality power supply when I made up my new rig just in time for COD's release. The cards are a little too close for my liking to enable decent heat dissipation, but I reckon I have enough fans and ventilation (especially as I made sure I have tight cable grouping to help air flow) in the case anyway. There's actually a spare PCI-e slot free on my m/b, but I reckon 3 is just excessive, and I'd have to buy a much bigger p/s. I was kinda miffed that I had to lose my trusty Audigy card though, and go with onboard sound; there just wasn't room for it. Onboard sound is way better than it was a few years ago though.

I actually prefer one good videocard, but I only bought my first GTX460 a couple of months back, and I'd just don't feel like shelling out $AUS350+ for a better card when I paid $AUS220 for this one. Besides, I bought a twin GTX460 card off eBay for such a good price.