Enabling SLi in 64bit

[MrHillMichael]

Right, tried windows 7 before but nothing serious so ive made a partition and decided i wanted to use all 4GB of my ram so ive installed the 64bit version!

First thing ive done... nvidia! graphics drivers, downloaded version 190.62... they install and work great... Then i click Enable SLi.. Screen goes black for a few seconds then to 800x600 resolution and the nvidia display properties have gone from my right click menu on the desktop and i have to reinstall the drivers!


Common?

 

[Everlong]

I've not had much luck with the 190.xx drivers, don't really find them to be very good. I'm still on 185.85, though when I have used 190.xx drivers, I've never had what you do.

How do you install your drivers? Do you install them in safe mode or normal mode?

 

[MrHillMichael]

I install in normal mode, and they install fine and everything appears fine... until.. I enable SLi

 

[Zidane24]

I've not had much luck with the 190.xx drivers, don't really find them to be very good. I'm still on 185.85, though when I have used 190.xx drivers, I've never had what you do.

How do you install your drivers? Do you install them in safe mode or normal mode?

please note that the drivers pre-190.x memory leak with that 3D glasses service that gets installed...

 

[MrHillMichael]

Im wondering if its something to do with my 2 cards having different BIOS'

One is a 8800GT OC and the other is an 8800GT OC2... SLi runs in vista fine but im looking into flashing the BIOS of them so i can get them identical!

 

[digitalrurouni]

Im wondering if its something to do with my 2 cards having different BIOS'

One is a 8800GT OC and the other is an 8800GT OC2... SLi runs in vista fine but im looking into flashing the BIOS of them so i can get them identical!

I think that could be it dude.

 

[MrHillMichael]

right, ill get on that and report back!

 

[MaDDN3ss]

Im wondering if its something to do with my 2 cards having different BIOS'

One is a 8800GT OC and the other is an 8800GT OC2... SLi runs in vista fine but im looking into flashing the BIOS of them so i can get them identical!

I don't think that is the issue. As long as both cards share the same core (i.e. both 8800GT) you will be fine in SLI, regardless if they are from different manufacturers or if it is factory overclocked from the manufacturer.

There is good info on Nvidia's SLI site. www.slizone.com

I will be going SLI soon as well as I have just bought a second card so I'll let you know if I encounter any issues similar.

 

[thefabe]

Well this is not incouraging as I'm getting back anew replacment 9800gt from XFX in a couple of days and was really looking forward to running SLI if anyone has any information on probems or fixes please post them. Mine unlike the above post are the same cards bought orignaly at the same time so no bios issue. Once I recive it I'll post back.

 

[Everlong]

please note that the drivers pre-190.x memory leak with that 3D glasses service that gets installed...

185.85 doesn't come with 3D vision drivers. It's 186.18 and upwards, and as far as I'm concerned, the memory leak is still there when playing some games, especially Star Wars Galaxies.

 

[Zidane24]

185.85 doesn't come with 3D vision drivers. It's 186.18 and upwards, and as far as I'm concerned, the memory leak is still there when playing some games, especially Star Wars Galaxies.

Whoops I forgot to specifically mention the driver version timeframe...you are indeed correct

If you feel that it is still memory leaking for you than have you disabled the service that uses 3D vision or do you actually use that?

 

[Everlong]

Whoops I forgot to specifically mention the driver version timeframe...you are indeed correct

If you feel that it is still memory leaking for you than have you disabled the service that uses 3D vision or do you actually use that?

I found out what it was eventually and fixed it today, it was starting to get pretty bad. I was at 100% CPU usage and 95% RAM usage just sat on desktop idle. I upgraded back to 190.62 and installed the new 3D Vision patch that fixes memory leaks, but that wasn't it. I found out, that the WMP Network Sharing process was hogging everything. Apparently it gets stuck in a loop with some .avi files and will cause a bad memory leak. Though I dunno why it started happening recently. Stopping and disabling the service and then using Microsoft's ProcessExplorer to end the process will fix it.

 

[thefabe]

Well I just got back my other 9800gt and installed it in normal mode and also got the 800x600 problem. When I try to enable SLI it says a prgram needs to be closed Nview wel when you do this you can't run SLI. I went to the Nvidia site and all the offer is the 190.62 driver which won't let you run SLi both cards are reconized in device mngr whaaa just want to run SLI any ides?

 

[Everlong]

Well I just got back my other 9800gt and installed it in normal mode and also got the 800x600 problem. When I try to enable SLI it says a prgram needs to be closed Nview wel when you do this you can't run SLI. I went to the Nvidia site and all the offer is the 190.62 driver which won't let you run SLi both cards are reconized in device mngr whaaa just want to run SLI any ides?

Do you have the SLI bridge connected and the right way round? I know it's a simple thing, but there's been a couple of times I've absentmindedly forgot to re-connect it

 

[thefabe]

Thanks for your reply and yes I installed the bridge.What happens is the Nview has to close down inorder to run sli but then you only get a max 800x600 resolution or maybe 1024x 768 which means on a 23in displayu screen you have a 1 inch top and bottom black and a 2in on the sides. I've tried several different drivers with the same problem. Is this a driver issue or the Areo in 7 and why close Nview were all the physic and sli settings are? Right now I'm Lost In Space on this deal works great on xp with 3dmark05 17326 and single card on 7 at 11301 given up on it for now since with 7 I get a hell of alot more eye candy. But win 7 SLI Please

 

[Everlong]

Thanks for your reply and yes I installed the bridge.What happens is the Nview has to close down inorder to run sli but then you only get a max 800x600 resolution or maybe 1024x 768 which means on a 23in displayu screen you have a 1 inch top and bottom black and a 2in on the sides. I've tried several different drivers with the same problem. Is this a driver issue or the Areo in 7 and why close Nview were all the physic and sli settings are? Right now I'm Lost In Space on this deal works great on xp with 3dmark05 17326 and single card on 7 at 11301 given up on it for now since with 7 I get a hell of alot more eye candy. But win 7 SLI Please

Well since Vista, Nvidia Control Panel always closes now when you enable SLI. It is annoying a bit, as with XP, SLI enabled instantly, but now you get the whole black screen and programs having to close before it enables.

Try upgrading your BIOS if you're not already on the latest one.

 

[thefabe]

Already using the latest bios. I read the Nvidia driver support for the 190.62 and it claims to support SLI tri and quad but I still get the same thing 800x600 and Nview gone. Lost for ideas at this point. Thanks anyway. Fabe

 

[thefabe]

Someone has to be running SLI here , just want to know how they went about it. PLEASE? Desperate

 

[MrHillMichael]

Ill be honest, Ive given up, there was so much messing around to try and get it to work!, Ive just stuck with vista and everything is sweet! ill run windows 7 in a virtual pc :shock:

 

[thefabe]

I visited slizone and their ws a post about writeing a vshScript to enable it. Whatever I can't belive Nvidia would release a driver that won't let you enable SLI. Frankly I give up I've got Hours and hours of searching on this an nobody has any answers. So I will wait till a driver update or till someone figures it out I tell ya it's a cryn shame booo hoo