Official system requirements

[Cpt Dremmen]

im considering eating a vegetable at the moment, 3 guesses to what it is or it gets it

[Chivas]

So I'm confussed....do the developers write their game code to take advantage of SLI/Crossfire or does the GPU company write drivers to enhance each particular game to run with multi/gpus. Or do the developer and graphics companies work together on this. We know that the COD developer had contact with Nvidia, but not AMD.

I find Luthier's statements provide very little insight to this question. It certainly sounds like his evasive answer suggests there will be no advantage to using SLI or Crossfire.

[nearmiss]

Originally Posted by Chivas

So I'm confussed....do the developers write their game code to take advantage of SLI/Crossfire or does the GPU company write drivers to enhance each particular game to run with multi/gpus. Or do the developer and graphics companies work together on this. We know that the COD developer had contact with Nvidia, but not AMD.

I find Luthier's statements provide very little insight to this question. It certainly sounds like his evasive answer suggests there will be no advantage to using SLI or Crossfire.

I've been doing a bit of research and there is still more focus on using single cards than sli/crossfire for gaming, i.e.,tom's hardware and others.

Then of course I may be biased, since I use an 8800 GTS 512MB card. I built the system 2 years ago. I'm thinking I'm a go with BOB COD (no changes needed)

I'm definitely not going to sweat it in the meantime. I'm going to hold off the panic buttons until I've installed and used the BOB COD for couple weeks at least.

[CharveL]

Originally Posted by Chivas

So I'm confussed....do the developers write their game code to take advantage of SLI/Crossfire or does the GPU company write drivers to enhance each particular game to run with multi/gpus. Or do the developer and graphics companies work together on this. We know that the COD developer had contact with Nvidia, but not AMD.

I find Luthier's statements provide very little insight to this question. It certainly sounds like his evasive answer suggests there will be no advantage to using SLI or Crossfire.

Did you read any of this thread?

[nearmiss]

Originally Posted by CharveL

Did you read any of this thread?

Take it easy,,, this is just a discussion forums. Overlook things you can condesend you'll make more friends.

[lbuchele]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

Take it easy,,, this is just a discussion forums. Overlook things you can condesend you'll make more friends.

Good advice for life in general.

[Novotny]

Briefly: Ilya can't answer that question because it is not his area of responsibility - his team writes the rendering code, which ostensibly is produced for either ATI, nvidia or any card manufacturer whose hardware supports the DirectX APIs; they have tested with some popular cards. I say 'ostensibly' because both nvidia and ATI sometimes hand over lots of cash to influence a team to code in a particular way that suits their solution best; we don't know if either the red or green team are 'helping' in this way, though I'd guess neither are.

Multiple card set-ups are controlled at the driver level, and theoretically there should be good scaling, however the proof will be in the pudding.

I'd really advise against buying anything until we have some benchmarks in hand.

[nearmiss]

Originally Posted by Novotny

I'd really advise against buying anything until we have some benchmarks in hand.

1+

[furbs]

Well im getting a Nvidia 580 in 2 weeks time and i cant see that card in the specs...should i be worried?...it should be fine i expect...but it did make me blink

[BadAim]

My goodness, we love to complicate things around here..... There are very few games that show significant performance increases with multi-core (or multi) GPU's at standard resolutions. It's probably not worth buying multiple cards or a multi-core card for anyone who is not running either multiple monitors or a very large monitor at very high resolution, that's all Luthier was saying. If you have a setup like this it will work, but you might not get a massive return for your buck. Simples.

Edit: and what Swiss said.......