Newb SLI Help

Spork · 12-15-2006, 01:15 PM

Ok i have 2 asus Nvidia 7900gt/gto cards and just hooked them up SLI. When i first went into Day of Defeat: Source i had about 200fps but as people joined and maps got bigger my fps dropped to 20! Thats worse than what i had before. I am wondering if there is something i have done wrong in the set up or some sort of configuration that needs to be done other than setting up the hard ware the way it is supposed to. there are some options in the nvidia control panel that should be available to me now that i am running SLI but are still grey'ed out, that is what makes me think i am missing something.

my second thing is i was running dual display and now it is telling me i cant, is there a way to still have dual display maybe by hooking up a 3rd PCI vidcard and dedicating that for the second monitor.

Thanks

**TheMatt** · 12-15-2006, 04:01 PM

It almost sounds like your drivers may have gotten uninstalled, try a system restore to a day before this was a problem and see if that fixes it. If it doesn't, check the detail settings, you should be running most everything on highest settings, but there may be some option in the game that got accidentally changed. Also, do you have any other games to try? What happens if you run 3DMark06? Do you get an unusually low score?

12-15-2006, 01:15 PM	#1 (permalink)
Spork Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 36 OS: Vista Ultimate	Newb SLI Help Ok i have 2 asus Nvidia 7900gt/gto cards and just hooked them up SLI. When i first went into Day of Defeat: Source i had about 200fps but as people joined and maps got bigger my fps dropped to 20! Thats worse than what i had before. I am wondering if there is something i have done wrong in the set up or some sort of configuration that needs to be done other than setting up the hard ware the way it is supposed to. there are some options in the nvidia control panel that should be available to me now that i am running SLI but are still grey'ed out, that is what makes me think i am missing something. my second thing is i was running dual display and now it is telling me i cant, is there a way to still have dual display maybe by hooking up a 3rd PCI vidcard and dedicating that for the second monitor. Thanks

12-15-2006, 04:01 PM	#2 (permalink)
TheMatt TSF Enthusiast Join Date: May 2006 Location: Boston Posts: 13,701 OS: Win 3.1, 98, NT 4.0, XP Debian 4.0, Kubuntu 6.06 My System Blog Entries: 3	It almost sounds like your drivers may have gotten uninstalled, try a system restore to a day before this was a problem and see if that fixes it. If it doesn't, check the detail settings, you should be running most everything on highest settings, but there may be some option in the game that got accidentally changed. Also, do you have any other games to try? What happens if you run 3DMark06? Do you get an unusually low score? __________________ - Matt M - KB1OSC - Folding@Home 85015 [url="http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/"] If TSF has helped you, please consider donating. If I have stopped responding to a thread, feel free to send me a PM with a link to the thread. It is advisable to subscribe to threads so you will receive updates when replies are posted. You can subscribe to threads from the "Thread Tools" Menu. »Memtest86 »Prime95 »UBCD »SpeedFan »NHC Personal »Everest »Sandra »PC Wizard »RivaTuner »ATi Tool Click here for Useful Articles and Guides