7950gx2 questions

[eheroi]

hi guys. i need to ask some things.

1) my control panel shows only 512 memory for my card. i read another post that said that this is normal but want to make sure. can someone else with the gx2 card verify this?

also what is the newest driver for the nvidia 7950 gx2 ?

2) in the game Company of heroes i get very very low frame rates ( 10 fps )
does anybody else have the same prob with this game played in this card?

thanks for the help

asus p5w-dh deluxe
xfx 7950 gx2
E6700
ocz 800 (2gig)

 

[Vash-HT]

Hi,

my brother and I both have GX2's, and to answer your questions,

1) Yes it should only show up as 512mb, because even tho it has 1Gb, it effectively only has 512mb due to how SLi operates, and it is effectively SLi combined for a single slot.

2)As for CoH, I'm not sure what your problem is, I play the game quite often, and have never experiences fps that low.

the 7950 uses the same forceware drivers as all other geforce cards, the newest official driver is 91.47.

 

[scaryhalo]

Hi,

Got the same prob with CoH, low frame rate, about 10!!
Latest CoH patch.
Forceware 91.47
Very strange, ok it's on a Dell 3007@2560x1600 but still it should be better than this.
Messed about with the Nvidia CoH sli profile, barely any change!
Other games no problem, things shift around like a bat out of hell.

If you or anybody finds a solution, let us know please.
Thanks

P5N32 SLI SE Deluxe
X6800
Asus 7950GX2 x 2
2Gb Corsair
WD Raptor 150Gb x 4 Raid 0+1
XP Media Edition

 

[cb62fcni]

Hmm, I had the same problem with company of heroes but the patch fixed it. You have the latest bios I assume?

 

[scaryhalo]

Yup, latest bios.
But you comments make me think I could try re-downloading the patch and install it again.
Have also tried the Pure Video HD Beta drivers 92.91, same poor performance, the CoH profile is in those too.
Strange it's just this one app, everything else is fine.
Thanks for your reply

 

[darkstar782]

IIRC company of heros has some issues with SLI.

Have you tried disabling SLI and running it on a single GPU?

 

[cb62fcni]

Yea, it is strange, you might have to drop your resolution a bit and benchmark it. I run it at 1600X1200 with ~30FPS, my system is almost the same:

P5N32-SLI Deluxe
PD 805 @ 4.1Ghz
XFX 7950GX2 @500/700
2 GB DDR2-667 4-4-4-10

Basically the code for CoH just sorta sucks from a multi-gpu standpoint. It's a developer problem, not a hardware problem. Hopefully more patches will be forthcoming to address the performance issues, I know the # of people with SLI are the minority, but the numbers are growing and it needs to be taken into account.