GTA IV and SLI

luckystar

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Hi,

Problem is, I installed the latest drivers for my 8800 Ultra 768mb, and i have installed the latest patch (1.0.02 or what ever its called, the latest one basicly) and but have no luck with SLI. :cry:
Do i need to roll back to the driver Nvidia 180.84, bare in mind i have had hardly any probs with the game since installing the latest drivers form Nvidia(part form some lag and chopines - but will be overclocking my quad form 2.5 to 3.0.

And on the same lines, i think i heard a rumor that you can edit the registry or something and it will work - does anyone know if this is true.

Thanks for the heads up.
 

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AFAIK GTA 4 doesn't support SLI... yet. So basically this is why you had no luck with it. Right now it doesn't matter which driver version you use, although the 180.84 seems to work best with new GTA.
 

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Hi,

Problem is, I installed the latest drivers for my 8800 Ultra 768mb, and i have installed the latest patch (1.0.02 or what ever its called, the latest one basicly) and but have no luck with SLI. :cry:
Do i need to roll back to the driver Nvidia 180.84, bare in mind i have had hardly any probs with the game since installing the latest drivers form Nvidia(part form some lag and chopines - but will be overclocking my quad form 2.5 to 3.0.

And on the same lines, i think i heard a rumor that you can edit the registry or something and it will work - does anyone know if this is true.

Thanks for the heads up.
the 181.22 drivers work perfectly with GTAIV, me and everlong were fiddling with the settings a while back and got some quite surprising results, The SLI though, just set one of your cards as a physx card and that should at least take some of the load off one card and you should see some performance increase.
thread here http://www.vistax64.com/gaming/192970-gta-4-minimum-requirements.html
look at page 9.
 
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Hello friends, alltough having a Toshiba satellite a200-28s with 2gb ram, Ati radeon 2600- 512mb, core 2duo 2.00ghs, I play GTA4 in low perfomance if I increase the perfomance in the Grapichs (Options) The game will go on smoothly. can anyone explain it to me?
 

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Hello friends, alltough having a Toshiba satellite a200-28s with 2gb ram, Ati radeon 2600- 512mb, core 2duo 2.00ghs, I play GTA4 in low perfomance if I increase the perfomance in the Grapichs (Options) The game will go on smoothly. can anyone explain it to me?
by disabling some of your graphics cards features, and reducing options in game, eg/ detail distance and texture quality, your game will run smoother. The resource usage counter gives a representation of how much resources are being used with the current settings.
see attachment.
 

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    Evga NF78-CK-132-A 3-Way SLI
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    8Gb DDR2 Corsair Dominator @ 1066Mhz 5-5-5-15
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA 560 GTX SC FTW 1GB
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    Realtek ALC888 7.1 Audio, Logitech G35 7.1 Surround Headset
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    Dell S2409W 16:9, HDMi, DVI & VGA
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    Samsung 7200rpm 250Gb SATA,
    Samsung 7200rpm 750Gb SATA,
    WD 7200rpm 1TB SCSI SATA.
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    Xigmatek 750W Quad sli quad core 80% eff
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    Zalman CNPS9700-NT NVIDIA Tritium, Dominator RAM cooler
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    Logitech generic keyboard
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    Razor Lachesis Banshee V2 Blue, 4000DPI
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    16Mb Sky bb
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