Vista - SLI Drivers yet?

Hi all, new here. This community was recommended over at HardForum.

I've been scouring the world but it seems that Nvidia SLI-compatible drivers are still not available for Vista? (As far as I know, neither SLI nor Crossfire, meaning any two gpu system) works yet under Vista.

Well , this may be goood news for you :

Apparently beta Vista SLI drivers were released June 1- I've got the link somewhere. I'm gonna sit for bit and buy/build later this year after the midyear price-breaks... even then, I may just get two raptors and dual boot XP and Vista

Yep that is what i am doing right now.
Its gonna take a while before i completely switch to Vista X64 , maybe after SP1 is released

Microsoft has a patch that is supposed to correct the SLI in vista.

IT DOESN'T WORK... well not for me anyways.

I am experimenting with 2x XFX 8600GTS and so far SLI has been dramas.
Note: Using Vistax64 and have the 162.22 Nvidia display drivers.

Cheers
Anthony

Funny you should post today. My new computer was just assembled today with Vista 64 and SLI (dual 8800 GTX's). I'm waiting confirmation on their functionality and will let you know.

Keen to hear your outcome, I currently having dramas with screen going blank and returning (with a display driver stopped working message int he notification area ont he taskbar), boot screen locking up every now and then on restart/reboot (requires reset button).

Havn't tried games yet. But have got major issues with media centre.

All errors within Vista are solved by turning of SLI. But i still get the hangin on boot everynow and then.

I've got Crossfire running on mine. As far as I can tell, it works pretty well.

2 HD 2600XTs.

Interesting... Are you on 64bit Vista?? Wat amount of ram do you run??

I have 4gb so need 64bit, and so far its been nuthing but trouble.

2GB of RAM on 64-bit Home Premium. I'll probably be going higher soon, but that's been good enough for me so far.

My brother has a single nVidia card (8500) with 32-bit Home Premium and keeps telling me how bad nVidia drivers are compared to my ATI drivers. We even compared with a single HD2600 card, which should be a roughly comparable card (not quite, but good enough for generic comparison). I think that ATI might just have better drivers at the moment. Some will, no doubt, argue with me on that, but that's been my impression.

Since going to Crossfire, I can play BF2 at all the highest settings with frame rates around 100 FPS, dropping to no lower than 77 FPS. I was around 60 or 70 with one card, and it could drop as low as 30 at highest settings. So, no complaints from me here.

I may be misaddressing the SLI issue here, but it's worth a try. Is everything set up to use the correct card. Many multi-GPU motherboards still kind of have a "master" card slot, even though that concept has been somewhat done away with. If you're using the "slave" card as the primary one you're plugged into, that could be a related problem. What type of MOBO are you using? There could be some clues on that support site.

Good luck,

Frank