#0 - March 10, 2008, 10:54 p.m.
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WoW does NOT have native SLI support. Whoever is feeding you this information either needs to be fired or retrained.
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Does WoW have native multi-core technology built in?
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But Drysc, that can't be his problem. A single 8500GT should give a better performance than what he is reporting.
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Yes wow, since a recent patch, supports dual cores.
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http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii20/Victoriousllama/settings.jpg
is my video settings
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How the heck do you fit two of those in a computer? I have one and it barely fits and I have a full tower.
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You've got your refresh rate set at 60Hz if you change it to 75 Hz you will/might get 75 FPS...........
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thanks drysc i just got about 30-40 more fps with my dual gtx setup using afr1, running around in netherstorm now @ 140 fps everything turned up 1920x1200res on a 24" widescreen
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Drysc, wow will not use SLi nomatter what you do. Even changing modes it still only uses one GPU.
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You probably should, although WoW defaults to AFR on most nVidia drivers. I bet you don't see the AFR load balance go much farther than halfway up from the mid marker for each card (except at the loading screen).
I have a GX2, and when I enable SLI for WoW, the load balance rarely gets over 50% for each card. Meaning the combined GPU output is ~100%, instead of higher (the theoretical maximum being 200%).
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Just to note Drysc, you might want to talk with your fellow PC Technical support forum folks. It's pretty well common knowledge over there that most of the time, WoW is primarily CPU bound rather than GPU. This is why most people don't see much benefit from adding another card for SLI unless they are running at very high settings and resolution + encounter a scene that is not held back by the CPU.
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Sorry, i am not incorrect. I have an SLi setup right next to me and it does not work. If one core is heating up and the other is not then SLi is not working. If the nvidia SLi sidebar is all the way up or down then SLi is not working. I guarantee your SLi is not working. 7950gx2, 2 6600's 2 6800's, some guy recently on a tech board i frequent posted his new 8800 gt's don't work. they all do not run SLi correctly with wow. Unless of course you mean SLi works the same way Blizzard says it does, meaning the game actually runs with SLi enabled then sure it works but still does not take advantage of it.
SLi and multi-threads need to be added to this game. this is the dual core age and one of the top 5 games (WoW) should support both. there is no excuse. you have the money, the means and the manpower to do so. so why is it after 2-3 years now people are still asking for this to be implemented?
Multithreads would be the most performance enhancing thing you could do to this game to reduce load times and lag. everyone on a pentium 4 w/hyperthreading or any dual core would benefit with almost twice the framerate. I saw an entire article about some german guys forcing multithreading with wow in OpenGl, their framerate went from 54fps to 108fps in empty ironforge.