need sli support also

antonyfrnb16_ESO wrote: »

Profile is meant to be pushed out via NVidia today along with possible chance of new drivers later today as hinted by a rep from NVidia.

That would be so awesome.

This is quite sad that we get a tripple-A release without SLI support right from the start. And while for myself it is not a very serious issue, it is still a bad practice to release half-completed games...

i want to see 144 htz support.. crossfirex.. and 5.1 surround sound, how could they forget things like this..

As a current Crossfire user, I am pulling for ya. the sooner we get True Fullscreen, the sooner SLI and Crossfire X will work.

Hopefully its soon, but I am not holding my breath.

Games do not add "SLI Support" im pretty sure that's entirely up to NVIDIA's drivers.
However I hope ZOS contacts NVIDIA about this, it would drastically speed things up.

Does this even need SLi support?

I fail to see how it's going to get any better with SLi. I have a multi-gpu setup myself so I get that it can have advantages, but the game is already maxed out on a single card at well over 60fps.

Draw distance is capped due to PvP, texture detail isn't that great in this game [not saying it's ugly], and it's pretty light on effects, and the only issues with framerate I've seen are related to lag and not GPU struggles. Loading screens are also not going to see much improvement because they are usually as long as they are because of the server and not because of the GPU loading.

SLi is awesome, I'm not saying it's not, but I really don't get how this game is going to be any better with SLi support when you can max the settings out as is on any halfway decent GPU already.

What further improvements would SLi support provide exactly for this game in particular?

If there are graphics mods further down the line or a high rez texture addon or something I could see it. As is, it's not a game that really needs a whole lot of GPU power. I'd say decent Ram and CPU are far more important to running it.

If it's a matter of not 'turning it off and on' you really shouldn't leave it on to begin with. It's kind of a waste of power. Most applications, including games, should run fine on a decent single GPU anyway. SLi really only needs to be on for that extra kick when a game or program is really hard on a single GPU.

ESO is not such a game as far as I can tell. So why does it matter if it has SLi support or not?

SLI is not 'required'... just greatly preferred for some of us
This game does run well enough even on moderate systems.
though i will be blunt...
running this game FULL ULTRA QUALITY requires more
than most single cards can handle.... specially in town.
and there IS a major difference in quality/immersion
when you can get that high-res detail with locked fps (60 or higher)

Thankfully, with the 'nvidia fix' i have my SLI ...
GREATLY improved fps, higher resolution, and top-tier quality...
all locked at 60FPS(though ingame vsync)

the real issue is lack of true full screen from ESO =
no true AF, AA, FXAA, vsync, triple buffering,
SLI, Crossfire, 3D vision, Eyefinity, Multi-montior,
down sampling, etc etc etc etc.

Every time someone says "X game doesn't need SLI because it runs fine" I want to bang my head against a brick wall.

* Some people have 120/144hz monitors and want to run games at maxed graphics at 120fps or 144fps since there is a massive improvement in smoothness in games above 60fps.

* Some people have 4k monitors or monitors that display above the standard 1920x1080p. If you want to play games in 4k at decent frame rates, most games will require SLI with two decent cards to achieve this. The game is literally displaying 4 times the pixels on screen.

* Some people play games in 3D with glasses. This halves the frame rate and essentially doubles what's on screen, so SLI is great for keeping things running at 60fps.

* Some people have spent $1600 (two cards at $800 each) and to have an $800 card sitting there doing nothing is a complete waste of $800.

Sure, ESO doesn't "need" to have SLI the same way BF4 doesn't "need" to have SLI, but it's a AAA+ game and bloody well SHOULD have it, so the people above get all those different benefits.

this does nothing but trick the nvidia montor to show 50/50 working gpu cards.. its does not enable SLI ..

Unfortunately the CFX/SLI fix doesn't work, it actually stops rendering all together in ESO. Only the menus are visible for me.
This is getting tedious.
I don't like the fact that some people with enthusiast machines has to suffer due to bad programming.

mikescchen wrote: »

Maybe you can post your config / settings in that thread?
Mine works fine tho...


You can see both GPU are working.
(Sorry I don't know how to screenshot with the overlay )
I'm using 2 MSI 7850 PowerEdition OC 2GB, FX-6350 @ 4.3GHz, and Windows 8.1.

What program did you use to see both your cards working in the game?

Saerydoth wrote: »

SLI support only matters if you are 1) using 2 lower-end GPU's together rather than 1 powerful one, or 2) using a 3-monitor setup or higher resolutions like 1440p.

Not really. I've got top end 780 (non TI) powering my 27" 2560 x 1440 85Hz monitor.. I would be really nice to see my other cards being used!

wow even with patch 1.1.12 no SLI this is sad really wish I had bought a different game.