SLI performance

[Ryios]

On windows 8, if you run the game windowed you are capped at 60 no matter what. Because the Desktop Windows Manager in windows 8 overrides driver settings for vsync and forces it to stay on all the time. The only way around it is windows 7 or run games full screen.

[necrosis]

Also make sure you are running in true fullscreen. Not fullscreen borderless or whatever its called.

You probably are in true fullscreen just throwing ideas out there of things to check.

[Kantide]

Also to crossfire... AMD just recently game out with the long awaited Frame Pacing driver to fix crossfire, have you updated your drivers in the last 30 days?

Furtherfore, dollar for dollar, ffxiv runs better on nvidia cards than it does on amd cards. A 760GTX for 250$ will run the game better than a $300 amd card. Just look for all the benchmarks, I was in the benchmark thread back in beta, and I noticed that every amd I could find was getting beat by it's equivalent nvidia card. I don't know why but I think it's because nvidia cards have phsx processors and take some load off the CPU.

Frampacing doesn't work on DX9 titles yet. Also, it doesn't work on resolutions higher than 2560x1440 at the moment. I happen to play at 6048x1200. AMD cards seem to run this game just fine though as on a single monitor on one card I get over 100fps easy. Go figure.

[klepp0906]

FWIW - SLI doesn't work when using NVSurround. Atleast not in the benchmark (and im not reformatting my pc and installing the game until I have SLI working there first as I have no reason to believe the game will be any different)

I have quad titans and I get 4k @ 4680x2560 lol. It worked in the past and I got about 12k but between then and now something has stopped SLI from triggering completely. I recently discovered the visual SLI indicator which just adds proof to the pudding so to speak. It shows up in 3dmark, valley, heaven w/e else I choose to run but something for some reason with the FFXIV benchmark isn't letting SLI work.

again, this has something to do w/ surround because if I change to 1 monitor POOF SLI and SLI indicator works fine and the performance that comes along with it.

I didn't build a quad titan rig for 30 fps >.< help!

[Karnyboy]

I have an AMD 8 core processor..not sure im bottlenecking at that point..and I am running the latest drivers from Nvidia. Is anyone else seeing more than 4% usage on the second GPU?

I'm not bottlenecking, but I do notice it only does so well with my 8 core at Odin/Behemoth...your typical MMo slowdown, mostly because nothing out ther egame wise is optimized for anythgin more than 4 cores if you're lucky. I got the 8 core because I am not an overclocker and the speed was right. lol

[klepp0906]

I guess i should have listed my specs first

AMD 8150
120GB SSD
2 GTX 770s SLI
Verizon FIOS 75/35


the more i mess around with the more i think its a software thing on my end. many of my games are showing the SLI visual indicator and perfoming just like I would like them to. Once is load FFXIV I loose the visual indicator and notice the performance hit

Have you found a fix for this get? This is my exact situation. Im running quad titans and surround and I get sli and indicator in everything but ffxiv and ffxiv benchmark. No indicator and I get 30fps from 4 titans which is clearly unacceptable lol.

Im dying to play the game but not going to bother until the PC I built specifically to do so is working right Not enough people use sli or surround to draw attention to it and nvidia doesnt communicate with the people who put food on their table so Im afraid it could take months to fix this and the game is already months old.

[klepp0906]

TTT aggiegamer09 hollatchaboy!

[klepp0906]

FTR and for anyone who comes across this with a similar issue... after working w/ the guys at NVidia - they were able to reproduce it in the lab. They are now working on a fix. MUCH time wasted in denying the problem and/or assuming it was on the customers end BUT hats off to Josh at Nvidia for giving me the benefit of the doubt. He worked with me to confirm I did put my legwork in and wasn't crazy/ignorant (god knows they likely get MANY such cases. Anyhow its now out of my hands.

2 dozen reformats and a couple weeks later >.<