Thread: SLI problems, game locks up, freezes since 2.1

Been having problems with SLI since the 2.1 update.
I have 2 older cards, GTX295's but was running everything almost maxed before the update.

I've tested each card separately in game with single GPU and multi GPU mode, when in single game runs fine, no problems can go from zone to zone, turn camera fast not stutter, I've set settings to laptop high for this.

Turn on Multi GPU on a single card game stutters a but but loads ok.

When I have both cards going, SLI turned on the game freezes up at the loading screen for a bit, I can hear chat, what's going on in game and everything.
If I alt tab a couple times and back game will enter. But if I turn camera the screen goes black and freezes again.

I've tested both cards separately same issue, I reformatted and reinstalled windows 7 same thing, Tried every driver from the recent beta one back till drivers from July.

Not sure what else to do other than to just get a more powerful single GPU card.



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