SLI does work.

I decided to try the new drivers, the newest nvidia drivers made it work and I have a 50% fps improvement.

8800gt's in SLI.

Manually added through the nvidia control panel.

new drivers.... 196.21 right or beta? What did you add in the control panel?

I just used what the driver was on the site for my card, I updated through the windows devices/update after I downloaded it.

You add a game manually in 3d settings through the path steam/commonapps/ etc.

196.21 just checked.

I ran into a problem of the driver not updating even though it said it installed. I would check through dxdiag and it wouldn't take. I went through a few tries through device manager with the new download and it finally stuck. SLI works great and I'm getting 42 fps zoomed out 30 zoomed in during battle.

what setting did you change in the nvidia panel to make it sli?

thanks!

I got the new driver, made sure it was installed.

Went to nvidia control panel (right click desktop) manage 3d settings then manually add NTW, steam/apps/coomonapps or something, select the NTW exe.

Apply.

you didn't change any additional settings? just added it?

any way to tell what driver version i have?

Yes, I enabled "force alternate frame rendering 2" to the games SLI setting.

Search dxdiag in start/search, select display, and look at the end numbers of the driver, or go through device manager.

Or Run/dxdiag if you're on an older OS.

Ok so I tried out force alternate frame rendering 2 ( I was trying jut 1) and wow.... SLI finally. I have been combing these forums and other total war forums using half fixs but this is the ticket. I hope they release a profile or a patch or a driver or something to make this standard for all. My performance was playable but now its perfect. Just tested it on a massive battle and did not slow at all.

Thanks alot, this should stickied I think..

Originally Posted by Weequayx

Ok so I tried out force alternate frame rendering 2 ( I was trying jut 1) and wow.... SLI finally. I have been combing these forums and other total war forums using half fixs but this is the ticket. I hope they release a profile or a patch or a driver or something to make this standard for all. My performance was playable but now its perfect. Just tested it on a massive battle and did not slow at all.

Thanks alot, this should stickied I think..

Glad to help.

what is SLI ?

Running two or more similar GPUs (Video/ Graphic Cards) together simultaneously to enable better performance on optimised games and applications. It's like; two of 'em are twice as good as one.

Some graphics cards (like the Nvidia GTX295 or the 9800GX2 card) are in fact two cards in one (two graphic processors).

It says my Main Driver is : 8.17.0011.9562 is this up-to-date?

If not where can I find the latest drivers (stupid US portal service expectin NTW later today)...

No, 19621

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index5.aspx?lang=en-us

Thanks so much! I would rep you but...

But what? I don't use rep, it's lame.

But you disabled it is what i was going to say lol.

i have a gtx 295 and nap uses just 1 gpu!?

does crossfirex work now?