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    A question for the SLi owners...

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Phritz, Jul 1, 2007.

  1. Phritz

    Phritz Space Artist

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    What SLi modes are available to you on games like FEAR, Alternate frames? Splitscreen? Super Anti-Aliasing (16×, 32×) ?
     
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    Jon93 Notebook Guru

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    SLI is drivers only, they do not show up in game options (to my knowledge).

    if you go SLI, make sure you grab XP, not Vista.

    Vista does not support SLI.
     
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  3. Phritz

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    When you configure the gaming profiles on the GFX card, not ingame options.
     
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    sco_fri Notebook Evangelist

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    Is Vista going to support it at some point? I dont know if I will ever move my desktop to Vista anyway, but I was just wondering.
     
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    They say some time in July,

    to answer your question before,
    I have better luck configuring games in the ingame menu, but thats just me.

    I'm running on OLD SLI drivers (I really need to update, just haven't got around to it), and things on my drivers would be different than yours.
     
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    There are beta drivers for the 7xxx in SLi but unless you have a good DX10 card to handle DX10 games well there is no point in Vista
     
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    UNLESS you have a laptop that can upgrade to the new 8xxx series.
     
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    jbizzler Notebook Consultant

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    For me, Vista runs faster than XP, I like the sleeker interface, and I don't have any compatibility trouble, so I like it better. I wouldn't say "there is no point in Vista". What I do say is there is no point in UPGRADING to Vista unless you're playing DX10 games. Just use what your computer comes with, or if you're building your own, install Vista.

    GeForce 8/DX10 SLI drivers are coming real soon. They're already available in the beta section. A couple of games have their own SLI options in-game, but most are driver-only. I don't have SLI anymore, but when I did, there were like 3 or 4 options and I found AFR or AFR2 the best, depending on the game.

    AA is silly above 4xMSAA, unless you're playing an old game and have plenty of processing power to pump it way high.
     
    jbizzler, Jul 1, 2007
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    I don't believe that the current 8xxx laptop GPUs can handle DX10 well.....

    thanks bizzler, I was trying to see what would be available, and at the screen res and pixel density I'm getting any AA is silly
     
    Phritz, Jul 3, 2007
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