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Kain Morphe The Study of Wumbology Test Alliance Please Ignore Likes received: 3	#1 - 2013-06-11 10:24:35 UTC Does eve support SLI mode? If so how do u activate it?

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Stealth Hinken School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State Likes received: 0	#2 - 2013-06-11 10:26:35 UTC Kain Morphe wrote: Does eve support SLI mode? If so how do u activate it? yes

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Carniflex StarHunt Mordus Angels Likes received: 381	#3 - 2013-06-11 10:27:25 UTC Kain Morphe wrote: Does eve support SLI mode? If so how do u activate it? If its anything like crossfire then by playing only single account fullscreen. Here, sanity... niiiice sanity, come to daddy... okay, that's a good sanity... THWONK! GOT the bastard.


Kain Morphe The Study of Wumbology Test Alliance Please Ignore Likes received: 3	#4 - 2013-06-11 10:29:13 UTC How do i activate it? Im runniong SLI crossfire mode! Is it automatically activated or do i have to activate it outside game in nvdia control panel?

Liam Mirren

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#5 - 2013-06-11 10:33:58 UTC

You don't have to activate SLI, as long as it's activated in the driver (which it will be) you're fine. However, SLI (and crossfire for that matter) only work in full screen so if you used windowed mode then only one of the cards will work. Would you run more than 1 client you could assign one card to a specific client and the other card take care of the second one but it's not really logical.

All in all SLI and Crossfire really aren't that amazing, for various reasons.

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Solutio Letum The Scope Gallente Federation Likes received: 219	#6 - 2013-06-11 10:39:06 UTC 3 Liam Mirren wrote: only work in full screen so if you used windowed mode then only one of the cards will work.. wait, eve has a full screen mode?


Kain Morphe The Study of Wumbology Test Alliance Please Ignore Likes received: 3	#7 - 2013-06-11 10:40:44 UTC Hmm i run in fullscreen but i dont see any difference in fps from when i ran only 1 card?

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#8 - 2013-06-11 10:45:27 UTC

Kain Morphe wrote:

Hmm i run in fullscreen but i dont see any difference in fps from when i ran only 1 card?

Considering a single card can drive EVE at 60 FPS, SLI is massive massive overkill.

And you won't get higher than 60FPS, unless your monitor has a higher refresh rate. Eve defaults to Vsync on.

If you want to turn that off (for some reason. no real point driving higher rates when your monitor isn't able to display them), you want to turn 'Interval' to Immediate on the graphics screen. Just don't complain when your card melts. Blink

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Kain Morphe The Study of Wumbology Test Alliance Please Ignore Likes received: 3	#9 - 2013-06-11 11:00:07 UTC Sitting outside station with highest res and settings except shaders to medium i got around 400fps.


Steve Ronuken Fuzzwork Enterprises Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM Likes received: 6,759	#10 - 2013-06-11 11:47:49 UTC Kain Morphe wrote: Sitting outside station with highest res and settings except shaders to medium i got around 400fps. So... What's your screen refresh rate? Woo! CSM XI! Fuzzwork Enterprises Twitter: @fuzzysteve on Twitter

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Koriel Vandrec Hedion University Amarr Empire Likes received: 9	#11 - 2013-06-11 11:56:00 UTC \| Edited by: Koriel Vandrec NVM


Kain Morphe The Study of Wumbology Test Alliance Please Ignore Likes received: 3	#12 - 2013-06-11 12:55:22 UTC Steve Ronuken wrote: Kain Morphe wrote: Sitting outside station with highest res and settings except shaders to medium i got around 400fps. So... What's your screen refresh rate? how do i see that? My fps with highest res and highest quality settings in fleet with 40 ppl shooting is around 150 now! Is that good? my grapchic cards are gtx 660 sc*2.

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#13 - 2013-06-11 12:57:54 UTC

What Mr Ronuken is attempting to explain Kain, is that while the theoretical maximum FPS you could obtain from an Eve client may be much higher, physical hardware limitations make this a moot point.

Your monitor will, presumably, have a refresh rate of 60hz meaning that the maximum FPS it is physically capable of displaying is 60FPS. In other words, don't trust the internal Eve FPS counter because it does not reflect the practical hardware limit.

It would be more beneficial to you to keep v-sync on and improve the shelf life of your graphics card.

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Liam Mirren

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#14 - 2013-06-11 13:02:24 UTC

Kain Morphe wrote:

Steve Ronuken wrote:

Kain Morphe wrote:

Sitting outside station with highest res and settings except shaders to medium i got around 400fps.

So... What's your screen refresh rate?

how do i see that?

My fps with highest res and highest quality settings in fleet with 40 ppl shooting is around 150 now!
Is that good? my grapchic cards are gtx 660 sc*2.

What he means is that your screen FPS is most likely 60hz, there are screens that do 120hz but if you had one you'd know about it. So your screen refresh being 60 it makes no sense to have more than 60 fps and all it does it fry your videocard and put the card's cooling fan on overdrive.

So, your super fps is meaningless and literally useless. Just set it to interval 1 and be done with it.

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Joxxy Aliastra Gallente Federation Likes received: 24	#15 - 2013-06-11 13:10:01 UTC Sometimes I wonder am I so much more intelligent then most people around me or do stupid people talk a lot and thusly seems like theirs more of them ...

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Amanda Chelian Likes received: 91	#16 - 2013-06-11 13:19:39 UTC Kain Morphe wrote: Sitting outside station with highest res and settings except shaders to medium i got around 400fps. That's a lovely barbecue you got there.

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Klandi Consortium of stella Technologies Likes received: 196	#17 - 2013-06-11 13:21:50 UTC Joxxy wrote: Sometimes I wonder am I so much more intelligent then most people around me or do stupid people talk a lot and thusly seems like theirs more of them ... And the next skill for you to master is grammer I am aware of my own ignorance and have checked my emotional quotient - thanks for asking


Kain Morphe The Study of Wumbology Test Alliance Please Ignore Likes received: 3	#18 - 2013-06-11 13:30:11 UTC Ty for your support and answers now i got it :) Ty so much!

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Amelia Ryan CONCORD Operations Likes received: 12	#19 - 2013-06-11 15:12:50 UTC So you guys are saying there is no point in having more than 60 FPS as most screens won't show anything above. However wouldn't SLI help in keeping at least 60 FPS when there is an engagement going that would stress a single card below 60 FPS?

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Durzel Questionable Ethics. Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork Likes received: 273	#20 - 2013-06-11 16:13:32 UTC I got 12fps outside Jita 4-4 during the anniversary celebrations despite having quad SLI GTX 690s. There isn't a SLI profile (not an optimised one at least) for Eve.