SLI/Crossfire support and Exclusive Full Screen Mode

JohnnyB

It has been discussed and announced since Beta but we still cannot use our two (or more) graphics cards with ESO.
How hard is it to enable Exclusive Full Screen Mode?
Does anyone know what command we can use to Enable it over Borderless Fullscreen Mode?
In the UserSettings.ini it is mentioned as:
SET FULLSCREEN_v5 "2"
I have tried using AFR (Alternate Frame Rendering) but it doesn't give any fps gain.
Has anybody found a working Crossfire Profile from another game maybe?

Any Developer to share some insight please?

my system specs:
AMD FX-8350 @4.5ghz
16GB RAM DDR3-1600
2xSapphire HD7970s Dual-X @1050/1500
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB SSD
Win7 64bit Ultimate

RinaldoGandolphi

As far as I know, there is no Full Screen Mode in this game.

it may be a long time before it gets one

I am a Crossfire users myself, I feel your pain, I just wouldn't expect it anytime soon.

Regardless its a good game, and I do think True Full Screen Mode will come eventually, just not anytime soon. I say a year down the road.

Godimus

This needs to get fixed asap or i may cancel my 3 month sub before my free month is up.. a lot of us play in surround and eyefinity 5760x1080 and even using 780ti can give headaches its ridiculous that we dont have standard full-screen and sli support on a major triple AAA title in the year 2014. Ive been a huge supporter of this game. Its amazing . Hands down the best and most balanced MMO Ive played on release but we need to have this addressed NOW. I'm requesting everyone keep this bumped this has to get fixed and fast its just unacceptable. and from Nvidia comments on the forums they are waiting on Zenimax to make this game compatible. Zenimax please do not let your supporters down. please address this post and patch this game.

JohnnyB

I don't understand their mindset really.
Zenimax modified the HeroEngine but chose to leave out Exclusive Full Screen Mode.

There are users that are still running two older GPUs (instead of upgrading to a newer one) and there are users with high end GPUs that would like to see better fps but both groups are denied of this.

Can we hope this will be fixed within short time or we are wasting our time and money?

RinaldoGandolphi

I hope they do fix this soon. I think they will get around too it at some point. I think as soon as we get through the 1st full month of launch, and they get most of the major bugs ironed out, then I think they will get True Full Screen rolled out.

I was just being sarcastic when I said a year..I was just kidding, forgot the winking face.

Honestly I think in a month or so we will probably see it, I would be surprised if we don't. They did annouce back in March they will be bringing that feature to the game. I can't wait till they do.

Saerydoth

JohnnyB wrote: »

I don't understand their mindset really.
Zenimax modified the HeroEngine but chose to leave out Exclusive Full Screen Mode.

There are users that are still running two older GPUs (instead of upgrading to a newer one) and there are users with high end GPUs that would like to see better fps but both groups are denied of this.

Can we hope this will be fixed within short time or we are wasting our time and money?

Once again, the game does NOT run on Hero Engine. It is not modified Hero Engine. It is not related to Hero Engine in any way. It uses a completely custom engine, developed from scratch.

The reason Hero Engine is listed in the credits, is because they used it to prototype art assets at the beginning of development, before the engine was ready. They didn't want the artists sitting around twiddling their thumbs waiting on the programmers to get an engine ready. So they licensed Hero Engine and had the artists work on prototyping zones, creatures, etc, then once the programmers got the engine off the ground they switched over to that. Hero Engine just gave the artists a head start. The final game does not use it in ANY way.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2012/05/25/why-the-elder-scrolls-online-isn-39-t-using-heroengine.aspx

Ardenraym

Please give us this basic PC function. I have dual HD 7950s and the game is not the experience it could be while I am getting half the framerate.

rlaurengeb16_ESO

well, i'm starting to think they are too preoccupied by their console version of the game to work on this. This problem has been reported since beta, and we haven't heard anything about this since then.

Why would we want to play with constant 60fps when console player will barely be able to play 30 ?

I call that ***. I can't go to Cyrodiil without experiencing massive fps drop and stuttering, games barely playable in some areas too. Lack of optimization for higher end machines is just not acceptable anymore.

I'll bare with this til the end of April, but ZOS should expect a lot of unsub coming their way.

Atreyix

This should help with Nvidia people

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/77002/enable-sli-including-more-then-20fps-temp-fix

Socratic

I was planning on getting another r9 280x at the end of the month, I still will, but going to be gutted when my FPS isn't affected.

Phaedra

Sort it out please, no true full screen in 2014 ? !

Cancelled my subscription until this is sorted out.

Viper_Infinity

This is ridiculous. as a modern game they should include this by default. I run dual nvidia gts 450's in SLI (as that is what i could afford) and Zenimax doesn't support SLI/true-fullscreen? I am cancelling my sub until they fix this, it is unacceptable.

MrLuigi

I see this and it makes me sad because I have GSync and it doesn't work without exclusive fullscreen as well.

recsa1b16_ESO

Pleeeaseeee, Crossfire support ASAP.

ASAP = Yesterday

D34thly

+1, Signed, You name it I'll do it? Want my first born child.. I can arrange that..:p

iendgameeb17_ESO

I've implemented fix for CF/SLI, please check my thread:
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/89801/crossfire-sli-fullscreen-fix