Quad SLI GTX590, DX11, Fullscreen and geforce experience

Cauthorn

Geforce experience is telling me to optimise ESO with Fullscreen but I can't seem to get it to work with DX11. I get next to no scaling and a weird flickering red bands on the screen. Seems to work perfectly in Window mode.

brandon02852cub18_ESO

then use window mode. screw whatever geforce experience says.

Trollwut

GeForce Experience tells me to set games to Medium settings, where I can play any game on full settings with over 60 FPS.
It's a program that just collects data of how games remain liquid. It just recommends.

If you want to know how to get DX11 and fullscreen working, you may need to provide further information and ask a different question.

Cauthorn

Thanks @Trollwut. What further information would you need to see?

Is being able to get Fullscreen working likely to get me any better SLI performance or should I just be satisfied using a fullscreen window?

Trollwut

I have no idea about your problem and have never really used SLI. Sry dude!
Just wanted to get more information for fellow helpers.

Well,

• related components (CPU, bla bla)
• How can you reproduce the problem?
• Can you picture it?
• What have you already done to solve it?

RinaldoGandolphi

Open your usersettings.txt file under My Documents/Elder Scrolls Online

Scroll down and find the following line:

SET GraphicsDriver.7 "D3D11"

Change it to

SET GraphicsDriver.7 "D3D9"

Reboot PC

then change to Fullscreen mode under game settings.

If this doesn't work, simply change it back to D3D11 by copying the previous line above back into your user settings file and rebooting PC.

SLI and Crossfire for that matter don't work very well in this game. The game engine simply doesn't scale it very well, and its CPU bound which makes it worse.

Cauthorn

Thanks @woodsro. I was aware of how to drop it back to DX9 and yes it works in Fullscreen mode; however, the load balance between cards, SLI scaling and frame rate are much better when using DX11.

I had been in XP compatible mode with DX9 since launch and it was only recently that I swapped because texture loading when entering a building was being delayed. I was then surprised to find that Fullscreen just didn't work but that Fullscreen (Windowed) provided a better experience than DX9 was previously.

System specs (standing by for the upgrade this/that comments!)
Mobo: Asus 990FX Sabertooth
CPU: AMD FX-8150 (Oc'd 4.4 GHz)
Mem: 4x4GB Corsair DDR3 1600 8-8-8-24-41-2T
GPU: 2xNvida GTX 590, Driver 350.12
Windows 7 64bit on Raid1 WD Raptors

Usersettings.txt

SET MouseRawInput "1"
SET MouseSensitivityFirstPerson "0.50000000"
SET MouseSensitivityThirdPerson "1.00000000"
SET MouseSmoothing "0"
SET InvertMouseWheel "1"
SET InvertMouseY "1"
SET InvertMouseX "1"
SET MAGELIGHT_LIGHTS_VISIBLE "1"
SET PFX_SUPPRESS_DISTANCE_v2 "50.00000000"
SET PFX_GLOBAL_MAXIMUM "1024"
SET MULTI_GPU_CHECK "1"
SET CachedRLREnabled "0"
SET CachedReflectionResolution "0"
SET CachedShadowFiltering "5"
SET ScreenshotFormat.2 "PNG"
SET PregameGammaCheckEnabled "0"
SET HardwareCheckEnabled.3 "0"
SET SUB_SAMPLING "2"
SET REFLECTION_QUALITY_v3 "0"
SET PARTICLE_DENSITY "3"
SET HIGH_RESOLUTION_SHADOWS "1"
SET SHADOWS "4"
SET GAMMA_ADJUSTMENT "108"
SET VIEW_DISTANCE "1.60000002"
SET GPUSmoothingFrames "0"
SET MIP_LOAD_SKIP_LEVELS "0"
SET RAIN_WETNESS "1"
SET LENS_FLARE "1"
SET GOD_RAYS_v2 "1"
SET ANTI_ALIASING_v2 "1"
SET AMBIENT_OCCLUSION "1"
SET COLOR_GRADING_v1 "0"
SET BLOOM "1"
SET DEPTH_OF_FIELD "1"
SET TONE_MAPPING "1"
SET COLOR_CORRECTION "1"
SET SOFT_ALPHA "1"
SET DISTORTION "0"
SET CHARACTER_LIGHTING "1"
SET DIFFUSE_2_MAPS "1"
SET DETAIL_MAPS "1"
SET NORMAL_MAPS "1"
SET SPECULAR_MAPS "1"
SET CLUTTER_2D "1"
SET SIMPLE_SHADERS "0"
SET WATER_FOAM "1"
SET VSYNC_INTERVAL "1"
SET VSYNC "0"
SET MAX_ANISOTROPY "3"
SET PreferMaximizedWindow "0"
SET PreferExclusiveFullscreen "1"
SET FULLSCREEN_v5 "1"
SET FullscreenHeight "1080"
SET FullscreenWidth "1920"
SET WindowedHeight "1028"
SET WindowedWidth "1920"
SET FOVChangesAllowed "1"
SET AgreedToPEGI "1"
SET VoiceChatAutoJoinChannels.2 "0"
SET VoiceChatEnabled.3 "1"
SET LuaMemoryLimitMB "64"
SET GamepadSensitivityFirstPerson.2 "0.72000003"
SET GamepadSensitivityThirdPerson.2 "0.85000002"
SET GamepadInvertX "0"
SET GamepadInvertY "0"
SET GamepadVibrationEnabled "1"
SET SOUND_ENABLED "1"
SET FOOTSTEPS_VOLUME "50.00000000"
SET FOOTSTEPS_ENABLED "1"
SET SPEAKER_SETUP "0"
SET BACKGROUND_AUDIO "0"
SET VO_VOLUME "70.00000000"
SET VO_ENABLED "1"
SET UI_VOLUME "70.00000000"
SET UI_ENABLED "1"
SET AMBIENT_VOLUME "70.00000000"
SET AMBIENT_ENABLED "1"
SET SFX_VOLUME "70.00000000"
SET SFX_ENABLED "1"
SET MUSIC_VOLUME "70.00000000"
SET MUSIC_ENABLED "1"
SET AUDIO_VOLUME "100.00000000"
SET AUDIO_ENABLED "1"
SET TooltipFilter "-1"
SET TooltipNumOptions "2"
SET Language.2 "en"
SET GraphicsDriver.7 "D3D11"
SET PatchDataPath "game:/GameData/"
SET CacheDataPath "machine:/Cache/"
SET ViewedAddOnEULAVersion "5"
SET AcceptedAddOnEULAVersion "5"
SET AcceptedCodeOfConductVersion "1"
SET AcceptedPrivacyPolicyVersion "1"
SET AcceptedTOSVersion "1"
SET AcceptedEULAVersion "3"
SET DirectionalDamageIndictorVisibleInThirdPerson "0"
SET CameraFramingTransitionEnabled "1"
SET SkipPregameVideos "0"
SET HasPlayedPregameVideo "1"
SET RangedKillCamera "0"
SET PlayerKillCamera "1"
SET LastMonsterKillCamera "1"
SET MinFrameTime.2 "0.01000000"
SET ParticlesEnabled "1"
SET RequestedNumJobThreads "0"
SET RequestedNumWorkerThreads "0"
SET FreeUnusedGrannyFileSections.2 "0"
SET IsTrustedMachine "1"
SET RememberAccountName "1"
SET AccountName "_________"
SET LastRealm "NA Megaserver"
SET CustomUIScale "1.00000000"
SET UseCustomUIScale.2 "0"
SET RollDodgeDoubleTapEnabled "1"
SET RollDodgeDoubleTapTimeWindow.2 "185"
SET ClampGroundTargetEnabled "1"
SET MonsterTellsEnabled "1"
SET CameraZoomDistancesSynced "1"
SET SiegeCameraZoomDistance "6.00000000"
SET WeaponsOutCameraZoomDistance "5.50000000"
SET WeaponsSheathedCameraZoomDistance "5.50000000"
SET MaxNetworkWriteBuffer "10485760"
SET MaxNetworkReadBuffer "10485760"

Screenshot ... well I was going to include one but you wouldn't believe it; I can't seem to replicate the problem!

Having it in Fullscreen (Windowed) does seem to prevent those annoying memory thrashing reports and windows wanting to switch off Aero desktop and there doesn't appear to be any noticeable difference in frame rates.

Problem resolved I guess?

RinaldoGandolphi

@cauthorn I sure hope so.

SLI will work in Windowed Full Screen Mode(Borderless Window) but according to Nvidia its not optimal and doesn't scale as well, however if its working for you now, then continue with it. Don't try to fix whats not broken.

Us AMD Crossfire users are not so luck as the way Crossfire works it must be in exclusive fullscreen or Crossfire won't function.

Regardless, glad its working for you now!

Cauthorn

RinaldoGandolphi wrote: »

@cauthorn I sure hope so.

SLI will work in Windowed Full Screen Mode(Borderless Window) but according to Nvidia its not optimal and doesn't scale as well, however if its working for you now, then continue with it. Don't try to fix whats not broken.

Us AMD Crossfire users are not so luck as the way Crossfire works it must be in exclusive fullscreen or Crossfire won't function.

Regardless, glad its working for you now!

Thanks mate, that was what was frustrating me. I am experiencing the exact opposite from what they say should be "optimal" and hence the fiddling commenced. Its going to bug me every time I look at Geforce Experience!

Interesting about Crossfire. I was toying with the idea of dropping ATI cards in now that they're AMD.