Indisputable Fact About Vista -serious gamers can not use it

[Pete]

Vista does not support SLI
Indisputable Fact About Vista -serious gamers can not use it
It is an inferior product practically speaking.
-Pete

 

[Guest]

Pete,

Many others and I use SLI with Vista and have done so for a very long time.

Why you are experiencing SLI conflicts is a very isolated situation,
historically user induced.

 

[Dale]

And with Vista's AERO utilizing a significant amount of GPU power for
displaying the UI, one would think that the availability of adding
additional GPUs would be a good thing to have.


Dale

 

[Pete]

No. No SLI in the control panel and no useful support.
Do a google search for " Vista SLi " and you'll see.
Google is your friend.
-Pete

 

[Pete]

And with Vista's AERO utilizing a significant amount of GPU power for
displaying the UI, one would think that the availability of adding
additional GPUs would be a good thing to have.


Dale

Yes, one would think so. If only it made it so.
-Pete

 

[Dale]

Whoops. Based on what Jonathan Schwartz2 (AKA Bill Gates) said, I take this
back. My mistake.

Dale

 

[Innes]

Vista does not support SLI
Indisputable Fact About Vista -serious gamers can not use it
It is an inferior product practically speaking.
-Pete

You know what Pete, practicaly you are right, but isn't S.L.I. just another
word for buy more NVidia cards please? And the phrase serious gamers?
Pete, Millions of very serious gamers won't even start to use S.L.I until
they are ready to upgrade their pc's again.

From Nvidia's website;

NVIDIA® SLIT technology is a revolutionary platform innovation that allows
you to intelligently scale graphics performance by combining multiple NVIDIA
graphics solutions in a single system with an NVIDIA nForce® SLI media and
communications processor (MCP).

Emphasis on multiple NVIDIA................grin!!

Innes

 

[Jane C]

Vista will support SLI as soon as nVidia provide decent working SLI support
in their driver package. SLI control is not down to the operating system.

 

[Innes]

Vista will support SLI as soon as nVidia provide decent working SLI
support in their driver package. SLI control is not down to the operating
system.

Hear Hear, finally a answer that makes sence!!

 

[Jeffrey S. Sparks]

anybody mind telling me which is better: crossfire or SLI (or are they the
same). Which has better performance especially in vista?

Jeff

 

[Charlie Wilkes]

anybody mind telling me which is better: crossfire or SLI (or are they
the same). Which has better performance especially in vista?

Jeff

Crossfire is for ATI cards; SLI is for nvidia cards. At least that is my
understanding. I'm very skeptical that pairing up video cards will
really improve anything. And my lurking has not revealed any credible
reports of gaming rigs improved by the use of two video cards instead of
one.

Charlie

 

[Charlie Wilkes]

And with Vista's AERO utilizing a significant amount of GPU power for
displaying the UI, one would think that the availability of adding
additional GPUs would be a good thing to have.

I read ugly rumors I barely understand, about how bus latency
undermines the benefits of dual video cards. Maybe, maybe not.

But you touch on a significant point: Vista's desktop has 3d rendering, a
physics engine, all the resource-gobbling features that give contemporary
games their eye appeal. Ergo, playing a resource intensive game on Vista
is like having a second game running simultaneously on the system.

That is why "game-play stinks under Windows Vista," according to Tom's
Hardware.

Microsoft is like a neurotic bully who must dominate and stand at the
center of attention, at all times and at any cost.

Charlie

 

[BSchnur]

So Crossfire is supported? Do tell.

Not that it matters much to me, I seriously wonder about folks feeling
the need to invest $500 to $1000 on video cards (plus upgraded cooling
and power supplies and the inevitable heat and noise from them).

 

[Pete]

OK, I guess that's true.
-Pete

Vista will support SLI as soon as nVidia provide decent working SLI
support in their driver package. SLI control is not down to the operating
system.

 

[Shane Nokes]

Tom's Hardware is and has been running with morons for years.

When you load a game the GUI shuts down and stops using the processing
power.

When you leave a game then the GUI restarts.

So it's not truly utilizing anymore of your graphics power than XP.

The issue is the quality of the drivers. XP had this issue too at first with
people saying all the fancy transparencies and the drop shadowed icons were
causing framerate issues, but what people don't realize is that the GUI is
always unloaded from memory when you start a game, and reinitialized when
you leave the game.

haven't you ever wondered why you see "refresh" issues when you go back to
desktop such as windows redrawing their contents, etc.

 

[Shane Nokes]

Wrong, Vista supports SLI just fine.

nVidias drivers do not at this time.

See the difference?

 

[Shane Nokes]

You haven't done much "lurking" then

SLI/Crossfire significantly increases performance.

Check out the forums for futuremark makers of 3DMark.

Check out the score differences in SLI/Crossfire rigs vs. Non-SLI/Crossfire
rigs.

 

[Rich]

"> Indisputable Fact About Vista -serious gamers can not use it

heh

Indisputable,
you can't denys that ..
everyone knows that ..
experts say .that ..
It's a given that ..

When you hear these phrases ..
know that this is what they would like to think its true
no evidence, other that blundering exertise and feelings ...

substitue *feel* for any of the above keywords, or better yet
*according to my politics, I feel that*

priceless

Rich

 

[Rich]

No. No SLI in the control panel and no useful support.
Do a google search for " Vista SLi " and you'll see.
Google is your friend.

No, Google censors what it doesn't like
Google allows the Chinese to censor what they don't like
Google is not my friend, I'll wait for them to grow up

Rich

 

[Eric]

So Crossfire is supported? Do tell.

Not that it matters much to me, I seriously wonder about folks feeling
the need to invest $500 to $1000 on video cards (plus upgraded cooling
and power supplies and the inevitable heat and noise from them).

That is for the SERIOUS gamers. I hear Dale Earnhardt Jr likes to play
racing games online on his computer when he's not racing on the track.
SERIOUS gamers who have to play against him need the extra video power to
get a fraction of a second of reaction time.

Really, the serious gamers are into complicated text adventure games that
require you to be a programmer to excel at, to write scripts to control your
character, which requires fast internet connection and minimum video power.