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    Enable SLI with Half Life 2: Cinematic Mod

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by WaR, Nov 6, 2009.

  1. WaR

    WaR Notebook Virtuoso

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    OK, seeing as this might give my problem more exposure I am starting a new thread on it. One of you guys must know, or want to do this too.

    Anyway, I downloaded FakeFactory's Cinematic Mod 10 (Final). However it just doesn't run under SLI, when as you know, the whole Half-Life 2 saga runs with SLI.

    This is what I have tried so far:

    1) Renaming the .exe's that come with CM 10 to hl2.exe. Nothing.
    2) Adding the original exe's to the Nvidia Control Panel 3D settings. Nothing.
    3) Updated my Nvidia SLI profile to Profile 3. Nothing.
    4) Google search. Nothing.
    5) There was 1 dude with the same issue but with CM 9 but a restart fixed it. Nothing for me.

    Any help guys? Someone must want to run this in SLI.

    Thanks a lot.
     
  2. Aristotelhs2060

    Aristotelhs2060 Notebook Virtuoso

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    we all want all games to run in sli. latest drivers add sli to more games but notebook drivers are always old! so the games must be supported in sli by the drivers. sli updates add sli support to specific games and i havent come to a conclusion if the sli updates can be successfully used with 186.xx drivers (nvidia says it must be used with 191.xx driver) as many games have shown many stuttering issues after sli update while without it they didnt. a matter of the driver version or the total failure of Dell-Alienware hardware i am not sure.
     
  3. WaR

    WaR Notebook Virtuoso

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    Thanks for the reply. So you are saying update my drivers or you don't think it will work anyway?
     
  4. jenesuispasbavard

    jenesuispasbavard Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm quite happy with these actually.