New SLI made no difference?
I recently went from a single GTX 285 xXx edition to a GTX 285 Black Edition SLI setup. I've noticed no fps increase with 3d Vision however. Of course with it off things are smooth as can possibly be at 120 fps no matter what. When 3D vision is enabled, in a game such as Half-Life 2 (in the first city 17 area you start the game in) I can get FPS as low as 20 when enabled...

Any ideas?

I've recently reinstaled Vista so everything is clean and fresh.

Specs:

Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit
Core 2 Duo E8400
nForce 750i
GTX 285 Black Edition SLI
Xonar D2X
4GB Corsair XMS2 6400 DDR2 RAM
I recently went from a single GTX 285 xXx edition to a GTX 285 Black Edition SLI setup. I've noticed no fps increase with 3d Vision however. Of course with it off things are smooth as can possibly be at 120 fps no matter what. When 3D vision is enabled, in a game such as Half-Life 2 (in the first city 17 area you start the game in) I can get FPS as low as 20 when enabled...



Any ideas?



I've recently reinstaled Vista so everything is clean and fresh.



Specs:



Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit

Core 2 Duo E8400

nForce 750i

GTX 285 Black Edition SLI

Xonar D2X

4GB Corsair XMS2 6400 DDR2 RAM

#1
Posted 08/30/2009 01:41 PM   
[quote name='Dean478' post='583736' date='Aug 30 2009, 09:41 AM']I recently went from a single GTX 285 xXx edition to a GTX 285 Black Edition SLI setup. I've noticed no fps increase with 3d Vision however. Of course with it off things are smooth as can possibly be at 120 fps no matter what. When 3D vision is enabled, in a game such as Half-Life 2 (in the first city 17 area you start the game in) I can get FPS as low as 20 when enabled...

Any ideas?

I've recently reinstaled Vista so everything is clean and fresh.

Specs:

Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit
Core 2 Duo E8400
nForce 750i
GTX 285 Black Edition SLI
Xonar D2X
4GB Corsair XMS2 6400 DDR2 RAM[/quote]


No advice but thanks for telling me. I just eny from 2 9800gts in SLI to a 285 a few days ago and I was tempted to go to SLI, but now since you aren't getting much if any of a difference with SLI then I'm not gonna juimp up there.

You know the max you'll get is 60FPS anyway. Try it with ot without the 3d crosshair see if there is any difference. I've seen people complain that the 3D crosshair takes up some of the GPU power to do it's calculation and rendering
[quote name='Dean478' post='583736' date='Aug 30 2009, 09:41 AM']I recently went from a single GTX 285 xXx edition to a GTX 285 Black Edition SLI setup. I've noticed no fps increase with 3d Vision however. Of course with it off things are smooth as can possibly be at 120 fps no matter what. When 3D vision is enabled, in a game such as Half-Life 2 (in the first city 17 area you start the game in) I can get FPS as low as 20 when enabled...



Any ideas?



I've recently reinstaled Vista so everything is clean and fresh.



Specs:



Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit

Core 2 Duo E8400

nForce 750i

GTX 285 Black Edition SLI

Xonar D2X

4GB Corsair XMS2 6400 DDR2 RAM





No advice but thanks for telling me. I just eny from 2 9800gts in SLI to a 285 a few days ago and I was tempted to go to SLI, but now since you aren't getting much if any of a difference with SLI then I'm not gonna juimp up there.



You know the max you'll get is 60FPS anyway. Try it with ot without the 3d crosshair see if there is any difference. I've seen people complain that the 3D crosshair takes up some of the GPU power to do it's calculation and rendering

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#2
Posted 08/30/2009 04:12 PM   
I just went to 285sli also and saw a definite difference. I was playing Ghostbusters before the upgrade and the game stuttered quite a bit in some areas. SLI smoothed things out a lot for that game. I also experienced smoother gameplay in Oblivion, which allowed me to turn on all of the graphic options and still get a good smooth framerate. Did you make sure that an SLI profile is showing up for Half-Life in your nvidia control panel? You did also enable SLI in the control panel right?

The only problem that I'm having is that I can't get the SLI visual indicators to show in the game. It showed up once in Ghostbusters, but after turning it off and back on again it hasn't shown up in any of my other games. I know that SLI is working because the games are playing smoother, but I would still like to work out why the SLI indicator won't show up anymore.
I just went to 285sli also and saw a definite difference. I was playing Ghostbusters before the upgrade and the game stuttered quite a bit in some areas. SLI smoothed things out a lot for that game. I also experienced smoother gameplay in Oblivion, which allowed me to turn on all of the graphic options and still get a good smooth framerate. Did you make sure that an SLI profile is showing up for Half-Life in your nvidia control panel? You did also enable SLI in the control panel right?



The only problem that I'm having is that I can't get the SLI visual indicators to show in the game. It showed up once in Ghostbusters, but after turning it off and back on again it hasn't shown up in any of my other games. I know that SLI is working because the games are playing smoother, but I would still like to work out why the SLI indicator won't show up anymore.

#3
Posted 08/30/2009 09:03 PM   
I use GPU-Z to monitor temperature, freq, and SLI status. I tried the NVidia SLI indicator which only shows in flat 3D, once entereing a game in S3D mode that indicator disappears.
I use GPU-Z to monitor temperature, freq, and SLI status. I tried the NVidia SLI indicator which only shows in flat 3D, once entereing a game in S3D mode that indicator disappears.

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#4
Posted 08/30/2009 09:44 PM   
SLI was definitely enabled in the control panel, I rechecked that anyway. I'm not seeing any visual indictator in 3D or Stereo 3D but I'm sure it's working because in normal 3D my FPS seemed far more consistent.

Disabling the 3D crosshair is what did the trick. In Half-Life 2 in a level where I'd average 15fps I suddenly sat on 60fps without moving one bit.

Not a fan of crosshairs anyway as I prefer realism but in the case of Half-Life 2 where you have no ironsight... looks like I'll just have to put up without a crosshair.
SLI was definitely enabled in the control panel, I rechecked that anyway. I'm not seeing any visual indictator in 3D or Stereo 3D but I'm sure it's working because in normal 3D my FPS seemed far more consistent.



Disabling the 3D crosshair is what did the trick. In Half-Life 2 in a level where I'd average 15fps I suddenly sat on 60fps without moving one bit.



Not a fan of crosshairs anyway as I prefer realism but in the case of Half-Life 2 where you have no ironsight... looks like I'll just have to put up without a crosshair.

#5
Posted 08/31/2009 12:55 AM   
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