Vista - sli image tearing and flickering 8600GT

specs

Q6600 @ 3GHZ
8GB SLI 5-4-4-15 @ 1100MHZ RAM
1.5 TB HARD DISK RAID-0
750WATT SLI CERTIFIED PSU
SLI x 8600GT 512MB EACH
22" LCD LG
OS VISTA X64 ULTRA WITH SP1

OK for any game under SLI mode either i get image tearing like dark black lines or the screen flickers and if in the game i change the REFRESH RATE TO ANY THING more than 60hz it gets worse! and i cannot sucessfuly tune any game to run more than 1280X 1024 or i have to even go lower to 1280 X 720 or even lower to 1024X768

i mean some games work ok on 1024 res but almost all of them still eith have a tearing or swear flickring i am new to dual cards and want to play on atleast a respectable 1280X 1024 res with out these issue i am honestly exsauted!! please help!

If you imagine your problem as a golf ball and place that ball into a glass of water that represents everything else...then you will see that the problem does indeed seem rather large in comparison to everything else.

Now, pick up that ball and drop it into a swimming pool that represents everything else. you see now that the problem by comparison is much smaller and some might say insignificant.

You might be thinking but the problem is still there!

Of course!

But it is now so much smaller!



Which games are you using with these graphics problems and are there any gams you play that don;t have these problems?

Have you tried disabling SLi? It may have to do with lousy SLi coding for those games.

personally I would first off disable SLI if that didn't do the job revert your OC to defaults that usualy helps for the most part. Check your temps while gaming see if they all are ok

thanks super very much short after i posted the question ( essentially gave up! ) i found the problem to be common and was on hardware level, THE SLI BRIDGE caused the problems and it does so with the 8600gt cards and once you remove it they r super fine! you loose very little bandwidth! and almost no forseable performance difference so i am cool and called the super nice guys at XFX to ship me a new SLI bridgE! THANKS GUYS THANKS A LOT!!!

to all the good people having flickers and other screen issusssessssssss.
You are not alone!!! Many people with this problem on the web.
And this topic has become very popular.
i've been digging around for i also have this very anoying problem.
the issue of flickers is mostly found in the 8000 series, some in the 9000 series too.
this bug came about with the release of newer nVidia drivers.
there is one driver wich i cant remember now that did not have any problems at all maybe 181 or 182 may even be 178 i dont remenber.
but as we all know updates and upgrades are always good.........not!!!!!
in this case the best solution for you will be to go driver fishing untill you find the driver that works best.
i'm also fishing for drivers so if i find one i'll let you know.
Sli is good!!! and i will not disable it for i pay $$$$$$$$ to have this performance.
my other suggestion is to keep writing to nVidia or your vcard manufacturer about this bug.

and last......NOTE!!!!
dont go buying another card if your cards are working (unless of course you are a 100% sure that your vcard is fried) if sli was working fine prior to updating your driver, then is the driver. do a roll back driver thing....or uninstall the new driver and then install the old that worked!

huh????????????