Miracus
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Hi guys,
I dunno if it's the games I play, the drivers or my hardware but basically my second graphics card has become a $500 paperweight, when I try to play recent games like Farcry 2 and Fallout 3 in SLI I'll be lucky to play 5mins at smooth framerates before some sorta memory leak or graphics overload causes my FPS to drop dramatically to the point of incredible frustration. I know cards are more than capable of playing these games at smooth framerates on high specs, afterall SLI'd OR one of my cards handled Crysis like a breeze.
Farcry 2 seems to run fine one a single card, however on SLI it craps it's dacks within 5-10mins. Fallout 3 on the other hand is just weird, aside from all the desktop crashes which are common with this game, oddly enough it runs better in Vista which surprised me considering XP is generally better for games all around, Farcry 2 is the opposite like I expected. Anyway Fallout 3 seems to run well on a single card in Vista, but not in XP *less than 5mins play and then POO FPS*, on the other hand it runs fine on SLI with no slow downs under Vista but crashes to desktop within 10mins of play, under XP it doesn't crash, the FPS just POO's out even worse than on a single card... *shakes head*
My drivers on both Vista and XP are the latest, Forceware v180.48.
Since deciding to go with SLI in my system I have to say I'm pretty disapointed in it, I've played more games using just one card (leaving the other to waste) than I have with two because of the amount of issues with games supporting it. Assassins Creed had minor issues, Crysis was a good example that took months after release to sort out the SLI issues, now Farcry 2 now Fallout 3 are in the same boat based on many forums, thankfully Stalker ran fine with it. SLI has been around for something like 2-3 years now but refinement and support just still doesn't seem to be there in games today.
Anyone got any ideas?
Cheers
I dunno if it's the games I play, the drivers or my hardware but basically my second graphics card has become a $500 paperweight, when I try to play recent games like Farcry 2 and Fallout 3 in SLI I'll be lucky to play 5mins at smooth framerates before some sorta memory leak or graphics overload causes my FPS to drop dramatically to the point of incredible frustration. I know cards are more than capable of playing these games at smooth framerates on high specs, afterall SLI'd OR one of my cards handled Crysis like a breeze.
Farcry 2 seems to run fine one a single card, however on SLI it craps it's dacks within 5-10mins. Fallout 3 on the other hand is just weird, aside from all the desktop crashes which are common with this game, oddly enough it runs better in Vista which surprised me considering XP is generally better for games all around, Farcry 2 is the opposite like I expected. Anyway Fallout 3 seems to run well on a single card in Vista, but not in XP *less than 5mins play and then POO FPS*, on the other hand it runs fine on SLI with no slow downs under Vista but crashes to desktop within 10mins of play, under XP it doesn't crash, the FPS just POO's out even worse than on a single card... *shakes head*
My drivers on both Vista and XP are the latest, Forceware v180.48.
Since deciding to go with SLI in my system I have to say I'm pretty disapointed in it, I've played more games using just one card (leaving the other to waste) than I have with two because of the amount of issues with games supporting it. Assassins Creed had minor issues, Crysis was a good example that took months after release to sort out the SLI issues, now Farcry 2 now Fallout 3 are in the same boat based on many forums, thankfully Stalker ran fine with it. SLI has been around for something like 2-3 years now but refinement and support just still doesn't seem to be there in games today.
Anyone got any ideas?
Cheers
