SLI Problem I noticed happens only on 64bit

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I saw some posts the other day about people having problems with SLI while running Sins. I not sure if it was just the regular game or the beta too so I thought I would post it in here.

I had been playing Sins and then Entrenchment on Vista 32bit. I was using 2 EVGA 8800GTX cards on a EVGA 680i motherboard with no problems whatsoever and I played a couple games that lasted 9 hours or more and both cards were overclocked. Others mentioned they were having problems and I figured I was just one of the few lucky ones that didnt have to change my config whenever switching games. (Also play COD4 and CRYSIS WARHEAD). Well I recently got 4 gig of ram and heard 64bit Vista was much better than in the past and I was glad I upgraded. COD4 and CRYSIS WARHEAD ran flawlessly and felt more fluid with the upgrade even though they are only 32 bit programs. Then I tried playing SINS. It loaded fine and game played for a couple min then CRASH. It took me about 25 min and lots of tweaking before I rememeberd a post in here about SLI issues. Soon as I turned of SLI video cards and had them as single cards in non sli mode the game ran flawlessly. It did not have any problems with 32 bit and I could run SLI fine then. So just thought I would point out that this bug seems to be a problem in 64bit mode.

 

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

What drivers are you using? The latest WHQL is 181.20.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Im using 180.48 for 64-bit Vista but I just noticed that the new 181.20 are out just before I came on here. So will give those a try and see if I have to keep disabling SLI whenever I want to play Sins. Its not that big of an issue. Only thing that annoys me is everytime I switch between SLI and non SLI my icons on the desktop get shuffled around and I gotta move everthing back.

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 I can play Sins maxed out on 1 8800GTX so  I guess 2 isnt of much benefit in SLI anyway. The real problem happens with the mega mines, you let a game go on to long and its almost unplayable even with an Q6600 overclocked to 3.2 gigahertz and 4 gig of memory.

 

 

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

I have had problems with icon positioning, and have found icon keeper from www.enterra.com . hope this helps