Sli black screen when launching games.

stas823

Honorable
Apr 8, 2012
27
0
10,530
Hello
I am running a gtx 560ti x2 sli on a sabertooth 990fx r2 board, both of the cards are running fine, I had tested them. When I use sli and launch games (team fortress 2, arma 2) the screen goes black after the intro screen and crashes to the desktop.

Thanks
 

atomicWAR

Glorious
Ambassador
try doing a fresh install of your drivers....boot into safe mode...then into device manager...uninstall the video cards from there but be sure to check the delete driver box when you do. reinstall drivers then see if it works. let me know how it goes i have some more ideas.
 

stas823

Honorable
Apr 8, 2012
27
0
10,530


Had not changed anything. i have tried launching wow with SLI and it works fine, it seems that team fortress 2 and arma 2 dont support SLI?, otherwise im not sure.
 

stas823

Honorable
Apr 8, 2012
27
0
10,530
There is definitely a problem, every apart from world of warcraft crashes (tried fc3, bl2 etc..) the screen just goes black shortly after the intro videos and crashes (cursor freezes and cant ctrl-alt-del)
 

atomicWAR

Glorious
Ambassador
my bad i thought i read (and now see i didn't) wow was working...have you tried reseating the video cards and sli bridge....thermal stress can cause them to crawl out of their connections. also do your system ram while your at it to cover all the bases.
 

atomicWAR

Glorious
Ambassador
i had the samilar issue two months ago....if things were windowed on sleeping dogs in sli it was fine but if it was full screen i got artifacts (for a while it was the only game that did it it when others started i figured it out)....after much trail and error i found out i was getting unstable power (one of my modular cables was bad) . when i replaced it everything was fine. so if u have different pci e cable available...try them.