GTX 460 SLI PROBLEM NEED HELP!!

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ComputerGenius

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well recently i brought a single gigabyte gtx 460 1 gddr 5 and later on i wanted to run SLI for better gaming performance so i got another of the exact same card and ran in SLI, I got SLI to work and tested it in furmark and both of the cards were perfectly fine even in daily net surfing, but when i run a game the bottom half of the screen always flickers, this doesn't happen with a single 460. what could be the problem?

More information about my build is that im using a Corsair HX850 psu which should be enough for my build

for cpu im using a i7 860 @ 3.5 @ 1.3v
 
Test the second 460 as single card if you havent done that yet... You could try some older/newer drivers (dunno wich one's you have installed atm). Have you tried just one game or more? Many things could make this happen so its hard to tell but these are a few things you could try. Good luck!

Cheers
 
Its a problem with one of the cards (probly the new one ) hardware or software i dunno but try reinstalling the drivers and delete whats not needed.
 
GBcf said:
Test the second 460 as single card if you havent done that yet... You could try some older/newer drivers (dunno wich one's you have installed atm). Have you tried just one game or more? Many things could make this happen so its hard to tell but these are a few things you could try. Good luck!

Cheers
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thanks for the advice but i tried out both of the cards one at a time and both works perfectly fine as for the drivers i check and i have the latest driver
 
ComputerGenius said:
well recently i brought a single gigabyte gtx 460 1 gddr 5 and later on i wanted to run SLI for better gaming performance so i got another of the exact same card and ran in SLI, I got SLI to work and tested it in furmark and both of the cards were perfectly fine even in daily net surfing, but when i run a game the bottom half of the screen always flickers, this doesn't happen with a single 460. what could be the problem?

More information about my build is that im using a Corsair HX850 psu which should be enough for my build

for cpu im using a i7 860 @ 3.5 @ 1.3v
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Have you got any graphicaly intense games like metro 2033 or Crysis, so we can try and rule out the possibilty of Vsync. To stress the system as much as possible; try using fraps to monitor FPS, if it flickers above 60FPS and not below then it is probaly Vsync.
 
adamjamesroe said:
Have you got any graphicaly intense games like metro 2033 or Crysis, so we can try and rule out the possibilty of Vsync. To stress the system as much as possible; try using fraps to monitor FPS, if it flickers above 60FPS and not below then it is probaly Vsync.
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i played metro 2033 the part where tom usually plays for his benching and the gameplay and afterburner was saying that i had 60fps on 1080p on high settings and everything was fine but in the cut scenes the screen will go white and it looks like the screen has been squished into 1cm on top all i can see is the fps in the corner.
 
ComputerGenius said:
i played metro 2033 the part where tom usually plays for his benching and the gameplay and afterburner was saying that i had 60fps on 1080p on high settings and everything was fine but in the cut scenes the screen will go white and it looks like the screen has been squished into 1cm on top all i can see is the fps in the corner.
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60fps? On max @ 1080? That's not right, fraps is telling you porkies if that's maxed
 
ComputerGenius said:
u know the problem? lol
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Well i didn't say coz i'm not sure. When i crossfired i experienced flickering, but it only lasted a couple minutes then faded out and stopped. However i had a faulty card in that crossfire setup. Try playing different games and see if the flickering is still there, i found only occured in crysis.
 
Fodr Kreatr said:
Well i didn't say coz i'm not sure. When i crossfired i experienced flickering, but it only lasted a couple minutes then faded out and stopped. However i had a faulty card in that crossfire setup. Try playing different games and see if the flickering is still there, i found only occured in crysis.
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well it happens to all the games im playing and i have not a clue whats the problem text/menus in the game are blurry because it is flickering ¬¬

it happens alot in game menus actually.
 
ComputerGenius said:
well it happens to all the games im playing and i have not a clue whats the problem text/menus in the game are blurry because it is flickering ¬¬

it happens alot in game menus actually.
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In battleforge it is supposed to have a black background with white text when you read the unit stats but in crossfire it only showed the white text by itself without the background. If it did show the background it was flickering.

It's bollocks isn't it, you buy that card for the extra frames then end up with this nuesance
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