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    Americas Army sli compatible?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by jacob808, Apr 17, 2008.

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    I just downloaded and installed Americas Army ver 2.8.3.1 and I own a Toshiba x205 sli1 I tried playing the game with graphics all maxed out and I get a steady 40 to 60 frames per second and ocassionally it drops down to 20 to 30 fps. I couldn't believe it could drop that low with sli enabled so I tried turning on the sli load balancing graph that comes with nHancer, the bar comes up the the green filling inside the bar doesn't show, so I don't believe the game is making use of SLI am I right? I also can't find an option to enable/disable SLI in the game options, but when I google enabling Sli in Americas Army I find a lot of sources saying Americas Army supports Sli, even on the nvidia website. Please help me, I really want to know if the game is utilizing Sli or not and how do I enable it. Thanks
     
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    Not sure, my laptop isn't SLI, but is there a way to disable SLI in the drivers, load the game and see if it runs much slower?--A sort of reverse test.
     
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    I was thinking just that Tony, I'll disable sli then see if the fps drop or stay the same but that'll be pretty hard to guage if it's already just using one of the 8600m gt cards cause at the moment it seems like it is only using just one.
     
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    well I tried disabling sli and then playing the same training mission and every scene or location when I try and look around gives me about the same fps as with sli enabled so I'm really thinking that it's not taking advantage of the sli set up. Any advice?
     
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