Hey everyone, this is gonna be an odd thread, but here goes:
I've recently bought a new machine (got it assembled in the shop) consisting of:
Intel C2Q Q6600 (2.4ghz)
Dual SLI 8800 GT 512mb
Abit nforce Fatality SLI mobo
2 GB Kingston DDR2-800 Ram
850W Gigabyte power supply
Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit)
ViewSonic 28" amazing LCD
Updated every single windows and Nvidia drivers (169.25) I could find, and downloaded the patch for Crysis
Now when I started Crysis, I put on a mix of medium-high settings thinking wow, even with SLI this game is a monster. I benchmarked the GPUs and got around 26-33fps (this was still in 1280 x 1024)
Then I wanted to see how much SLI really did for Crysis, so I disabled SLI
And Voiala, 40-60 fps, thinking this couldn't be, i tried enabling and disableing SLI, restarting my pc, but no change.
Then I upped the settings to a mix of medium - high - very high (texture quality, water, physics, particle quality)
Benchmarking 1 card got an average of 36fps
Benchmarking SLI got an average of 10fps
My Gigabyte PSU has 4 thermometers so i connected 1 to each of the cards, but they had very similar temps running at full power so both were obviously working.
I was desperate so I swapped the cards, then took 1 out to see if it was a faulty card, but on their own, each performed perfectly. Pc could see SLI, and whatever config of the cards I tried, no improvement.....Then with both cards in, I took out the SLI bridge to see if that was the prob, and funny enough, the benchmark returned the same results with it out as when it was in. I went back to the shop and got the bridge replaced for another one from a same Fatality mobo but even with that I didn't get an improvement.
Oh, and I'm getting worse fps in other games aswell so this prob isn't a Crysis bug
I have searched the net for any other cases like this, but couldn't find any, and everywhere I went, SLI always rendered better results.... I just bougth the ViewSonic 28" LCD (btw it is frikkkkin amazing) and I really want SLI to work and run it at higher res (even now with 1 card setting things to a mix of med & high and texture quality to very high, at 1920 x 1200 I am still getting between 17-33fps). I'm lost for ideas so if anyone has a suggestion, pls post and help
Thx, Gellert
I've recently bought a new machine (got it assembled in the shop) consisting of:
Intel C2Q Q6600 (2.4ghz)
Dual SLI 8800 GT 512mb
Abit nforce Fatality SLI mobo
2 GB Kingston DDR2-800 Ram
850W Gigabyte power supply
Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit)
ViewSonic 28" amazing LCD
Updated every single windows and Nvidia drivers (169.25) I could find, and downloaded the patch for Crysis
Now when I started Crysis, I put on a mix of medium-high settings thinking wow, even with SLI this game is a monster. I benchmarked the GPUs and got around 26-33fps (this was still in 1280 x 1024)
Then I wanted to see how much SLI really did for Crysis, so I disabled SLI
And Voiala, 40-60 fps, thinking this couldn't be, i tried enabling and disableing SLI, restarting my pc, but no change.
Then I upped the settings to a mix of medium - high - very high (texture quality, water, physics, particle quality)
Benchmarking 1 card got an average of 36fps
Benchmarking SLI got an average of 10fps
My Gigabyte PSU has 4 thermometers so i connected 1 to each of the cards, but they had very similar temps running at full power so both were obviously working.
I was desperate so I swapped the cards, then took 1 out to see if it was a faulty card, but on their own, each performed perfectly. Pc could see SLI, and whatever config of the cards I tried, no improvement.....Then with both cards in, I took out the SLI bridge to see if that was the prob, and funny enough, the benchmark returned the same results with it out as when it was in. I went back to the shop and got the bridge replaced for another one from a same Fatality mobo but even with that I didn't get an improvement.
Oh, and I'm getting worse fps in other games aswell so this prob isn't a Crysis bug
I have searched the net for any other cases like this, but couldn't find any, and everywhere I went, SLI always rendered better results.... I just bougth the ViewSonic 28" LCD (btw it is frikkkkin amazing) and I really want SLI to work and run it at higher res (even now with 1 card setting things to a mix of med & high and texture quality to very high, at 1920 x 1200 I am still getting between 17-33fps). I'm lost for ideas so if anyone has a suggestion, pls post and help
Thx, Gellert