SLI working

[335th_GRAthos]

Yeah, I know GOZR but it is difficult to make 3840x pictures smaller the GPU monitor numbers will not be visible afterwards...



Ataros, just finished flying a couple of hours at the REPKA #3 server! Great fun, congrats to that team of 3 Bf109s nice group work!

Without RAMDRIVE, sound was there, no problems at all.
HOWEVER I noticed significant difference in performance: I got some 0,5sec stutters, happened at the most critical moment every time, dogfighting, mostly when a Bf109 was coming from high above at high speed and I turned my head to the sky to track it. I presume it is the speed that the system needs to load the textures of the new object.

So definitively I will stick to my RAMDRIVE (especialy since I have a slow (normal) hard disk and no SSD).
Personally, after this experience, I consider the money to add another 6Gb RAM (and make RAMDRIVE) better invested than money to spent on an SSD.
I will post it at the RAMDRIVE thread, too.

~S~

[Ataros]

Thanks for testing it

[HeavyHemi]

Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

Yeah, I know GOZR but it is difficult to make 3840x pictures smaller the GPU monitor numbers will not be visible afterwards...



Ataros, just finished flying a couple of hours at the REPKA #3 server! Great fun, congrats to that team of 3 Bf109s nice group work!

Without RAMDRIVE, sound was there, no problems at all.
HOWEVER I noticed significant difference in performance: I got some 0,5sec stutters, happened at the most critical moment every time, dogfighting, mostly when a Bf109 was coming from high above at high speed and I turned my head to the sky to track it. I presume it is the speed that the system needs to load the textures of the new object.

So definitively I will stick to my RAMDRIVE (especialy since I have a slow (normal) hard disk and no SSD).
Personally, after this experience, I consider the money to add another 6Gb RAM (and make RAMDRIVE) better invested than money to spent on an SSD.
I will post it at the RAMDRIVE thread, too.

~S~

Well you could try using MSI afterburner. It has an on screen display overlay with all the information you need... Temps, GPU utilization, memory usage etc etc. Then you could run full screen res.

[Ataros]

Good post on SLI

Originally Posted by HeavyHemi

I'm using the WHQL Quadro driver 275.65 with a modified inf file. I navigated to the 'launcher.exe' and set up a profile using AFR2 and now I'm getting decent scaling of SLI. With GTX 580's @850mhz, a 980x @4.2ghz, all in game settings at their absolute max, I'm averaging 55-60 FPS @ 1920x1080 whereas before I was averaging in the 30's. Could be worse.

How do you modify inf file btw? Is it important to do this?

[HeavyHemi]

Originally Posted by Ataros

Good post on SLI


How do you modify inf file btw? Is it important to do this?

Yes. If you do not add the hardware information to the Nvidia.inf file, the driver will not install. Here's a link to Guru3D with a link to the driver and the modified nvidia.inf file.
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=347795
Essentially after you extract the driver normally, you replace the nv_disp.inf file. Which is usually located at C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\275.65\WinVista_Win7_64\In ternational\Display.Driver. Just copy and paste. If you have any questions just ask there. A lot of helpful folks. BTW a correction to the above. AFR 2 was giving some flickering in the water textures. AFR 1 still gave decent SLI scaling without the flickering.
Nvidia needs to come out with a proper SLI profile. Hopefully the 280.xx coming out next week or so.

[Mr Greezy]

HeavyHemi...

Are your SLI framerates good in fullscreen or are they windowed like Grathos?

Also, is your setup just the new driver + .inf file + AFR 1? Or are you doing, as Grathos said, this: SLI compatibility bits (DX10): 0x000000F5?

Thanks for finding the driver stuff. I'm hoping it helps with my GTX 470s.

[_CH_Skyline_]

Man, I'm still very hesitant to buy this game. I've got 3x 3GB GTX580's in Tri-SLi and 3x displays @ 5960x1200. I don't want to have to drop back to using two cards (through drivers or by removing my third card) just to experience this game. Even then, I'm still not sure that the Aspect Ratio will be sufficient to take care of the stretching that the original IL-2 had.

[335th_GRAthos]

Originally Posted by _CH_Skyline_

I've got 3x 3GB GTX580's

Oh man, you should be banned for posting things like that...

Unlike IL2FB the 3Renders option is not working (yet) in CoD so it is a problem.
The only solution I found was to run the game in Window mode as my pictures show.
So, the 3Renders option is the key and we have to wait for this to happen before we can enjoy nice wide view.


In the meantime, the power of one 580GTX 3Gb will be enough to enjoy the game in full graphics so if I were you, I would not hesitate a moment buying the game and enjoying the graphics detail on single GPU mode. Afterwards with some searching, you will be able to activate the second GPU as well and this will be more than enough.

By the time the 3Renders option will be available I am sure that SLI ill be working without any shortcuts and this will be the time where three GPUs will show their value.

nice rig, by the way!!!

~S~

[HeavyHemi]

Originally Posted by Mr Greezy

HeavyHemi...

Are your SLI framerates good in fullscreen or are they windowed like Grathos?

Also, is your setup just the new driver + .inf file + AFR 1? Or are you doing, as Grathos said, this: SLI compatibility bits (DX10): 0x000000F5?

Thanks for finding the driver stuff. I'm hoping it helps with my GTX 470s.

I'm running full screen 1920x1080 all in game settings maxed I'm averaging 55-60 FPS in most areas with 80-905 utilization on both GPU's. Where I drop into the 20's is in urban area with a lot of buildings. My current setup is the new driver using the inf file (it's required) and AFR 1. I am not using the SLI compat bits. All the modified inf file does is add hardware information for other Nvidia cards so the driver will install. Reinstalling a standard GeForce driver will not be affected.