Crash to desktop w SLI and nVidia 350.12 drivers

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  1. dsuspense

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    Single card works fine for rF2 with the nVidia 350.12 drivers.
    When I use SLI and try to run rF2 it crashes back to the desktop.

    Did not have this with the 344.48 and 347.88 drivers...any ideas?
     
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    Just one idea: disable SLI to play rF2. The performance is worse than single card.
     
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    Wrong...with previous drivers I get excellent SLI performance...it seems to be a driver issue...
    Never had SLI problems with rF2 at all, which is a good thing, I must be lucky, cause I have heard a lot of problems for others.
     
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    So revert the drivers and be happy as the single human that managed SLI "excellent" with rF2.
     
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    Haha...yeh was thinking of doing it...unfortunately I have to satisfy AC, pCARS and GSCE with these, and then seem to be the only ones that run pCARS well..
    rF2 has been collecting alot of dust lately.
     
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    I'd love to see a benchmark comparison between 1 GPU and SLI considering multiple versions, if not all versions, of the ISI engine (RF2, GSCE, etc.) are pretty-much "broken" when it comes to SLI, well, except with Nvidia 3D Vision where SLI works brilliantly.
     
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    I was getting about 50-60 FPS with a single card and about 65-80 FPS with SLI, used Monaco as my test track since its the most taxing on my system...
     
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    Those seem like extremely low numbers in general...

    What sort of GFX settings are you using? Are you using both in-game reflection settings at full? Are you using intensive GPU driver controlled AA like 8xSGSSAA + 8xMSAA, or 16xS AA or something?
     
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    My figures may be off, may actually be 10+ fps higher, will have to benchmark again with older drives.
    I run high settings, static reflections, shadows low, 4xAA, vsync ON.

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    Ah, I see, yes it's possible to get a bit of positive SLI scaling the lower the two reflection settings are.

    Interesting link, thanks.
     
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    Just to let you know, there are new Nvidia drivers out.
     
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    These drivers completely slowed my machine down.
    Went back to 347.88 and rF2 runs fine now in SLI.
     
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    New Nvidia 353.06 drivers are out and have fixed the rFactor2 SLI crash to desktop problems!
     

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