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Stating the obvious - Windows 8

Just gonna be really stupid now and state the obvious...

I have a spare laptop drive so I decided to put Windows 8 Developer Preview on it just for the hell of it... certainly has the WOW factor however unfortunately the SLI patch will not work.

There, I said it... told you it was stating the obvious!!! :nutkick:

On another note, nvidia drivers worked fine, fired up Left 4 Dead 2 and I was shooting Zombies. I was very suprised at how all my drivers actually worked with it including 3D vision, etc.
 
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Just gonna be really stupid now and state the obvious...

I have a spare laptop drive so I decided to put Windows 8 Developer Preview on it just for the hell of it... certainly has the WOW factor however unfortunately the SLI patch will not work.

There, I said it... told you it was stating the obvious!!! :nutkick:

On another note, nvidia drivers worked fine, fired up Left 4 Dead 2 and I was shooting Zombies. I was very suprised at how all my drivers actually worked with it including 3D vision, etc.

Windows 8 is based on the same Kernel as Windows 7 (which is based on the Windows Vista Kernel), so yes, all your previous drivers should work "out of the box".

Windows Vista = Version 6.0
Windows 7 = Version 6.1
Windows 8 = Version 6.2

So, Vista/7 drivers will soon be Vista/7/8 drivers. :)
 

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Well the new drivers BSOD my system with SLI on and running BF3 Beta.
 
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Well the new drivers BSOD my system with SLI on and running BF3 Beta.

Anyone else? I've been playing BF3 beta with just one of my GTX 570s because I suspect problems...
 

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There are 200 and something pages in this tread and about half of them explain how to install the modded drivers. Search is your friend :twitch:

sorry to be lame but how do i use these?
 

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sorry to be lame but how do i use these?

Hi there, just download the new driver>install it>reboot>download the modded driver unpack and run the install.cmd. It takes a second. Reboot and you're ready to go (sli patch 1.5 already installed of course).
 

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Hypersli is so close, it will be much easier to use. Final testing is close to done. It works well with both 32 bit and 64 bit oses. Just be patient for now with the modded driver use. Oh and use "run as administrator" for the install.cmd.
 
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He he, this is like waiting Duke Nukem Forever or AMD Bulldozer except that HyperSLI will be succesful. judging by my experience on anatolymik's work.
Keep up the Good work.
 

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He he, this is like waiting Duke Nukem Forever or AMD Bulldozer except that HyperSLI will be succesful. judging by my experience on anatolymik's work.
Keep up the Good work.

Any chance this will work on a laptop running two GTX 580Ms? :D
 

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Anyone else? I've been playing BF3 beta with just one of my GTX 570s because I suspect problems...

Once I setup the game with 1 GPU then I turned SLI back on and it worked, make sure to set FULLSCREEN in the game settings.
 

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Originally Posted by anatolymik View Post
http://anatolymik.itzod.ru/

285.38 Windows Vista and 7 x32 Modded driver available.
285.38 Windows Vista and 7 x64 Modded driver available.
sorry to be lame but how do i use these?

Download and install the newest 285.38 driver. Download and install slipatch with uac off, and using "run as administrator".
Download and extract the modded driver to your desktop. Go into the folder and right click on install.cmd, and use "run as adminstrator". Reboot, enable sli, and go!
 

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Thank you for being patient with me!!!

BTW- it works great! I have 3X GTX 580's newest (moded) drivers on BF3 beta and it works perfect….oops almost perfect, V sink doesn’t work but I'm sure it’s the beta game and not the driver.
 

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Download and install the newest 285.38 driver. Download and install slipatch with uac off, and using "run as administrator".
Download and extract the modded driver to your desktop. Go into the folder and right click on install.cmd, and use "run as adminstrator". Reboot, enable sli, and go!

So do you have to do this EVERY time you install modded drivers? Or once you have SLIPatch installed just update driver then intall mod?
 

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Just update driver and install new mod. But always use "run as adminstrator" to run the install.cmd file.
Edit: don't worry, with HyperSli, you just update driver. Hopefully you won't need modded drivers for too
much longer.
 

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It works on the p55 so i don't see why it would not work on the mobile version. Give it a try...nothing to lose and it can be uninstalled if it does not work. :toast:
It's a M17x-R2, which uses a PM55 chipset.
 

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It works on the p55 so i don't see why it would not work on the mobile version. Give it a try...nothing to lose and it can be uninstalled if it does not work. :toast:

I already tried the regular SLi patch and it didn't work :(
 

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Download and install the newest 285.38 driver. Download and install slipatch with uac off, and using "run as administrator".
Download and extract the modded driver to your desktop. Go into the folder and right click on install.cmd, and use "run as adminstrator". Reboot, enable sli, and go!

hi,
i have a GTX 480 and a GTX480 amp, both from Zotac.
I done excactly what you write and i can activate SLI.
In many Benchmarks boths cards are working to 100% workload.
But when i start BF 3 beta the PC freezes and get a Bluescreen.
I read so many forums but i dont know what the problem is.
Do you rebot after every install?
And what is with the safety certificate from the modd driver? how du you install this?

other PC components:
Windows 7 64 bit
CPU: Q9650
Mainboard: Asus Maximus 2 Formula
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Ram: 4 Gb ddr2 adata pc 800
 

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hi,
i have a GTX 480 and a GTX480 amp, both from Zotac.
I done excactly what you write and i can activate SLI.
In many Benchmarks boths cards are working to 100% workload.
But when i start BF 3 beta the PC freezes and get a Bluescreen.
I read so many forums but i dont know what the problem is.
Do you rebot after every install?
And what is with the safety certificate from the modd driver? how du you install this?

other PC components:
Windows 7 64 bit
CPU: Q9650
Mainboard: Asus Maximus 2 Formula
power supply: Corsair 750
Ram: 4 Gb ddr2 adata pc 800

Its not the modded driver the problem, have you overclock your cpu and memory ?
 

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Its not the modded driver the problem, have you overclock your cpu and memory ?

Right, even downclock the cards a little, 5/10 mhz or so equally could be a solution....

Maybe the Corsair 750....
 

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Hi all. I'm just trying this on my 965P-DS3P. I have 2x560s in SLI (with bridge connected).

I installed the 285.38 drivers (rebooted). Installed SLIPatch 1.5 (rebooted in SLI mode). It popped up saying I could enable SLI (which I did - reboot).

I tried Metro and BF3, and both flickered... so I installed the modded 285.38 by unpacking, right clicking install.cmd and running as admin. But now both BF3 and Metro flicker red! Any ideas?
 

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Right, even downclock the cards a little, 5/10 mhz or so equally could be a solution....

Maybe the Corsair 750....

Yeah, 2 GTX 480 with 750 Watts...
 
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hi,
i have a GTX 480 and a GTX480 amp, both from Zotac.
I done excactly what you write and i can activate SLI.
In many Benchmarks boths cards are working to 100% workload.
But when i start BF 3 beta the PC freezes and get a Bluescreen.
I read so many forums but i dont know what the problem is.
Do you rebot after every install?
And what is with the safety certificate from the modd driver? how du you install this?

other PC components:
Windows 7 64 bit
CPU: Q9650
Mainboard: Asus Maximus 2 Formula
power supply: Corsair 750
Ram: 4 Gb ddr2 adata pc 800

Are you trying to run battlefield in window mode?
Try this:
Disable Sli run the game and enable full screen option.
Enable Sli and run the game again.
It's a Sli window mode issue, try running your games always in full screen.
 
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