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    M18xR2 970M SLI broken in FC5?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by Fried_Chips, Mar 31, 2018.

  1. Fried_Chips

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    Hi Guys,

    A little disappointed today - I have just installed and tried FC5 and I'm only pulling about 40fps with ultra settings. Turns out only one of the 970Ms are being used (makes no difference when I disable SLI and only 1 GPU is being used 100%)

    I suspect I need the latest driver to get the game profiles/SLI fixes, but before I go off and "mod an inf" has anyone got any other ideas why it's broken and how to fix it?

    For info I'm using the Eurocom's modded 9XXM 375.63 driver (quite old really)

    Chips
     
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    Raidriar ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

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    Screw eurocom. Update your driver. Check around to see if FC5 even supports SLI, many games do not these days.
     
    Raidriar, Mar 31, 2018
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    Fixed! FC5 officially supports SLI as asnnounced!

    So I downloaded the latest driver optimised for FC5 (391.35) and only needed to hack the nvcvi.inf (as an example http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/installing-nvidia-drivers-by-modding-inf-files.746245/) and it now is running at 60fps and both GPUs are now loaded which is the way it's meant to be played right?? :)

    Of course before installing I had to temporarily disable driver signature enforcement.

    Yes, screw Eurocom :)
     
    Fried_Chips, Mar 31, 2018
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