FH3 is right around the corner, Implementing SLI in Apex or Telling us ANYTHING about SLI and the future of Forza on the PC will Dictate whether I go out and spend $700 or not.
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Apex is not worth getting SLI for, you will finish it in 4 hrs. It’s really a demo. H3 is another story, I would wait and see, prices will go down to longer you wait
I have already beaten Apex 10 times over, But this (As stated by them) is a test bench for the PC functionality of future games, which would preclude that If SLI was intended to be a feature, It would be tested FIRST in Apex, before the next full title release in September. As for Prices. I “Or anyone interested in getting FH3” should never expect to wait a year after release (How long it will take for either the game itself to drop in price, or The $700 GTX1080 to drop in price [Given they intend to extend the model with a line of TI’s within the next year]) to find out about crucial components of the game. So as I said, any statement about the Status of SLI and the future of Forza on the PC will dictate whether I will be spending $700 on a new card or not.
You don’t need SLI if you’re running a good single card. These games are geared towards XOne anyway. Being able to run it at 300FPS doesn’t mean you should. For one, you won’t see it, and for two you’ll be cooking your cards for no reason. As long as you can hit your monitors max refresh rate anything higher is a waste. For lots of people anything over 90-100FPS is a waste, for lucky people anything over 60FPS is a waste. What exactly will you be spending $700 dollars on? Seems a lot to play one game, probably on overkill. lol. Especially when the new GFX cards from Nvidia and AMD are dropping. The Nvidia cards have storming single card performance for less than $700. only just under $700 but that could be enough to buy you a nice cold drink to calm you down as you rush around whooping about Forza! lol
-.- Thats why I’m making the post, To determine if I will be paying $700 on a GTX 1080 or I will be able to run it with my dual 970s, which have severe problems running this game.
Its as if you misunderstood the whole post and everything I said, and then got mad at me for saying anything at all about SLI.
Well i wasn’t mad so that’s that answered. Also i didn’t see your post just above mine until after mine had been posted. A single card is always preferable over SLI if performance is similar, but in this case a 1080 should stomp those 970’s into the ground. lol
I’ll be replacing my 970 with a 1070/80 still haven’t decided what i’ll need for the stuff i’m running yet. Plus i need some other gear and my wife will only let me blow so much on computer gear! lol
Indeed, but I would much rather keep my 970s if SLI were implemented then spend $700 just to play one game. At this time one 970 is not sufficient to run it, neither is forcing SLI through inspector. Any response to the matter of SLI by the developers may save me $700 as with many other people as well, I am sure, who have similar setups.
I can run Apex fine on one 970 at max detail at 75FPS. It runs just fine until the memory leak kicks in after about 4 races.
What CPU are you running?
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good ole 4690K
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That’s comparable in performance to my skylake i5 6600K. But i’m running DDR4 and an SSD. You’ll be running DDR3, but what about drive? HDD, SSD? got to be some reason you’re having trouble running Apex.
Well since the latest Nvidia patches. cant play any of it. Crashes upon race start. fatal error and video driver crash.
My FPS TANKS if I have SLI enabled do not do it.
Single 680 get 40-60 fps on high sli enabled I get 15-20fps
Not to mention that games from the Windows Store dont even support SLI unless thats been changed recently
You are missing the entire point of the post. Read posts before you respond.
SLI is a corner case technology
Most times its 10x more hassle than its worth
And “You only SLI/Crossfire once”
Which must mean no one uses SLI
The only way I got SLI to work was to force alternate frame rendering to the 2nd card under Nvidia Control Panel. Then pulled up CPUID and watched for it to utilize both cards nice and equally. For the record I have twin 970’s and an i7 4690k.
I’m running a laptop with 970m Sli
I get pretty good framerates with this game. (about 60fps on medium settings)
I assumed I’m using both GPU’s?
If I’m not, how do I enable them both on a laptop?
Thanks
As far as I know it doesn’t support or even recognise a 2nd GPU atm. Twice I’ve had Crossfire turned off by playing this, then had the PC overheat as Crossfire was not re-enabled automatically…
Definitely needs full multi GPU and multi screen support (That plus no wheel support yet is why I stopped playing). This game is just BEGGING for 3, 2560 x 1440p @ 144Hz on maxxed settings and to get that it’s gotta have full SLI/Crossfire support.
Assetto corsa has the best multi monitor settings I’ve ever seen (distance to centre screen, angle of the outer monitors, means NO fisheye effects) but, with no Crossfire support there’s no point playing it imo, Why? Adding the 2 other screens hits your fps for about 50% but crossfire/SLI can almost replace all of the loss (2 cards 3 will MORE than cover it).
Same goes for Forza Apex/Horizon 3, no multi GPU & multi monitor support? No point bothering. I’ll be back playing games that DO…
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I’m running (2) 270x’s & can’t get both cards to work for the life of me.
I feel you on Assetto. I had Crossfire working but it was pretty buggy.
Nobody gaming at about 2560 x 1440 or below really needs SLI. The fastest single cards manage it on nearly everything. The odd exception are mostly terribly coded games for PC. Quantum Break springs immediately to mind. Are you getting sufficient performance on terribly coded games even WITH an SLI machine? Ha, unlikely, cos they are terribly coded. Like QB.
You’re always better off with a powerful single card until you have extreme resolutions. At which point you better have deep pockets too.
Trade in the 970s, buy a single card and forget SLI ever existed. This is your best bet. I have a GTX1070 and it locks Forza Apex to 60FPS comfortably with 16 cars in the rain 2715 x 1527 everything forced on, including 8x MSAA. I think I saw it drop to 58FPS once. Oh noes.
I don’t think FH3 will run massively slower. I expect to halve the MSAA maybe, or go to 2x at worst.