GTX 570 SLI

[bloodravn]

Well i installed my second gtx 570 today. i made sure everything was seated and put in the correct slots. I uninstalled the old drivers and then did a clean in stall for the new ones. I am able to run games and benchmarks w/o a problem but for some reason when i am just surfing the web or watching a stream or youtube vod. My graphics drivers will just crash on me.

any thoughs and help would be much appriciatted.

System:

i7 950

EVGA x58 sli le MB

mushkin silverline ram 6gb

2x evga gtx 570s

corsair ax850watt psu

Thank you in advance. <3

 

[S_I_N]

check EVGA's site for an sli patch

 

[alienware]

There's no such thing as an SLI patch.

Did you run driversweeper and rip the old ones out completely?

And what do you mean the drivers crash on you? are you getting a message saying "Driver crashed and then recovered".

Welcome to the problems of SLI. The first thing to do is check the SLI connector as they are notoriously bad. Every time I have set up SLI I have had to clean all of the contacts with alcohol before it would work properly and even then it took some wiggling of the connectors.

 

[dugdiamond]

unistal

use driver sweeper

reboot

use driver sweeper AGAIN (to make sure)

use driver 266.71 (8.17.12.6671)

 

[CRAZYCAP]

run driver sweeper as suggested above but my tip would be to do if in safe mode.

 

[S_I_N]

There's no such thing as an SLI patch.

please sir unless you know 100% what ur talking about please dont say something doesnt exsist when in fact it does

http://www.evga.com/articles/00463/

might not be a patch persay but it is for SLI enhancement granted this is for certain games but it may still be of use to others

 

[alienware]

please sir unless you know 100% what ur talking about please dont say something doesnt exsist when in fact it does

http://www.evga.com/articles/00463/

might not be a patch persay but it is for SLI enhancement granted this is for certain games but it may still be of use to others

Announcing the EVGA SLI Enhancement! This unofficial patch enables SLI support in the latest games. In order to quickly enhance SLI Profile issues that come up with any new demo or game release; EVGA has decided to publicly release this update to patch add any SLI profiles so you can take full advantage of SLI right now!

# If I apply this enhancement are the drivers still WHQL certified?

* No, if this enhancement is applied, the drivers are no longer WHQL certified.

Emphasis added. So firstly it's unofficial. Secondly it takes away WHQL certification and thus means you are running on beta drivers.

It's cool and all, but it's still not a permanent fix. You still need to wait for it and you will still have problems even with it. Example, my friend runs a 460 2win. When he plays Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 the sky is flat purple. It's not just about the patches and fixes, it's more about support for it in the games themselves. Support comes at a cost, game creators use single cards to create their games. Same thing with more than two cores. 90% of games don't support them because it would cost more money to develop the game to do so.

If I did not speak from experience then I would be all for SLI and Crossfire, as I used to be. However, having to live with the headaches has taught me that it's not quite what it is cracked up to be. An example is Need for speed : Shift. Even with the latest profiles from ATI that were certified for NFS : Shift the game still refused to scale. In the end I had to rename the .exe to grid.exe and sure enough that worked. However, it hampered the game for a good 50% and it was only when I got to the oval tracks (very graphically demanding) that I realised that it just wasn't working.

Then there are micro stutter issues, and so on and so on. This I have proof of via benchmark results, as the min FPS is usually in the low 0-10 range.

 

[TicTac]

Dunno if im just being nub, but don't you have to enable SLI in the nvidia control panel?

EDIT: Turns out i'm right. But you have probaly already done this?

 

[SLIZER]

Test cards with sli disabled, test new card on its own in first pci-e x16 slot then 2nd one

 

[Scoob]

Hi,

When I popped in my 2nd 570 I didn't update the drivers or anything. I simply enabled SLI in the NV Control panel & it automatically updated all my profiles to use SLI as needed. Really, really simple.

It does indeed sound like you might have an instability somewhere, I think you might have to do as suggested and test both card independantly...as much of a pain as that is.

Is the CPU overclocked at all? I guess it's possible that adding a 2nd GPU has made that slightly less stable. A friend had to bump up vCore slightly when he fitted a 2nd GPU...strange but true!

Also, sometimes it's recommended to give VCCIO a slight votage boost when running a 2nd GPU. I've not had to do this myself, but some say it's helped. I think that'd mean north bridge voltage for yours as the 950's PCI lanes are not off the CPU like Sandy B.

Best of luck,

Scoob.