WIndows 7 260SLI problems

B_Witched · 07-14-2009 06:01 AM

So I have a fresh install of win7 64 bit build 7100. I have two 260 GTX's in sli on an asus p6t with a corsair HX850 PSU.

I can run TF2, COD, L4D no problems in sli. COH, not so much. It starts but takes a really long time to get to the log in screen. I can long in, select a server, select a toon and the loading screen launches, the load bar however, crawls an after a few minutes of waiting..it kicks me back to the log in screen. I have tried to reinstall, I have tried a fresh install, I have tried to move it from a known good installation of COH on another Win 7 box. I have rolled back the Nvidia drivers to 185.81 and still no luck.

Am I missing something? Is there something I need to do to turn on sli or make it work with coh?

EvilRyu · 07-14-2009 06:10 AM

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So I have a fresh install of win7 64 bit build 7100. I have two 260 GTX's in sli on an asus p6t with a corsair HX850 PSU.

I can run TF2, COD, L4D no problems in sli. COH, not so much. It starts but takes a really long time to get to the log in screen. I can long in, select a server, select a toon and the loading screen launches, the load bar however, crawls an after a few minutes of waiting..it kicks me back to the log in screen. I have tried to reinstall, I have tried a fresh install, I have tried to move it from a known good installation of COH on another Win 7 box. I have rolled back the Nvidia drivers to 185.81 and still no luck.

Am I missing something? Is there something I need to do to turn on sli or make it work with coh?

[/ QUOTE ]SLI isnt supported for CoH.

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B_Witched · 07-14-2009 06:19 AM

I know it is not supported but it worked before i had to reinstall my win 7 (was beta to move to rc1 I had to re-install). I know there are people who have sli running and coh.

B_Witched · 07-14-2009 07:23 AM

Actually, according to Nvidia's site coh supports SLI.

Eislor · 07-14-2009 09:30 AM

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select a server, select a toon and the loading screen launches, the load bar however, crawls an after a few minutes of waiting..it kicks me back to the log in screen

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Are you getting an error message? If you are getting could not connect error maybe you are having some ports blocked.

A listing of the ports needed.

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B_Witched · 07-14-2009 09:41 AM

no error just kicked back to log in and if I try to log in again it tells me my toon is already logged in to the game. I have the windows firewall turned off and using the same connection on a differet box i can get right in.

B_Witched · 07-14-2009 12:14 PM

ATI since cat 5.3 has had full opengl 2.0 support but between the two I would argue nvidia has much better performance and support (can we still not turn on water effects with ati/) -meh I am not really going to argue it anyway...since your partially right about drivers

Kirin_Night · 07-14-2009 02:48 PM

I'm having the EXACT same problem running an ATI Radeon 4850 (under Windows 7 RC).

- Takes forever to show login screen
- attempting to zone in after selecting a character gives a loading bar that, literally, will take almost an hour to finish

This is not SLI or nVidia related, as I have neither.

Gr33n · 07-14-2009 03:16 PM

Seems its best to have stuff a couple years old to play CoH...

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B_Witched · 07-14-2009 08:24 PM

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I'm having the EXACT same problem running an ATI Radeon 4850 (under Windows 7 RC).

- Takes forever to show login screen
- attempting to zone in after selecting a character gives a loading bar that, literally, will take almost an hour to finish

This is not SLI or nVidia related, as I have neither.

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that is odd becuase what does work for me is my system with the 4870 in it.

SunGryphon · 07-15-2009 04:31 AM

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I'm having the EXACT same problem running an ATI Radeon 4850 (under Windows 7 RC).

- Takes forever to show login screen
- attempting to zone in after selecting a character gives a loading bar that, literally, will take almost an hour to finish

This is not SLI or nVidia related, as I have neither.

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I also have the same problem, and I'm running a GeForce 7600 GT

Works fine in my XP boot, totally takes half an hour to load the game in Win7.

Kirin_Night · 07-15-2009 06:32 PM

I've SOLVED this issue on my system by doing the following:

1. I added " -renderthread 1" to the launcher shortcut.
2. I REMOVED compatability mode, running the program as normal.

After that, it worked normally! Near as I can figure, this has nothing to do with videocards, and has something to do with certain CPUs in Windows7. I'm running an Intel Core2Duo E6600.

houtex · 07-15-2009 09:03 PM

Oh... good one. Means the dual cpu detect isn't working with Win7, looks like...

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SunGryphon · 07-15-2009 10:26 PM

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I've SOLVED this issue on my system by doing the following:

1. I added " -renderthread 1" to the launcher shortcut.
2. I REMOVED compatability mode, running the program as normal.

After that, it worked normally! Near as I can figure, this has nothing to do with videocards, and has something to do with certain CPUs in Windows7. I'm running an Intel Core2Duo E6600.

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I'm pretty sure I had renderthread already on my shortcut, but I'll check the compatibility mode when I boot tomorrow.

SunGryphon · 07-16-2009 05:35 PM

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I've SOLVED this issue on my system by doing the following:

1. I added " -renderthread 1" to the launcher shortcut.
2. I REMOVED compatability mode, running the program as normal.

After that, it worked normally! Near as I can figure, this has nothing to do with videocards, and has something to do with certain CPUs in Windows7. I'm running an Intel Core2Duo E6600.

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I'm pretty sure I had renderthread already on my shortcut, but I'll check the compatibility mode when I boot tomorrow.

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turning OFF compatibility mode indeed fixed my problem, and I'm now able to run CoH under Win7. Huzzah!

B_Witched · 07-17-2009 08:16 AM

crap and I just wiped my hard drive.

ChiosuBlues · 07-18-2009 05:23 PM

SO, is there a step-by-step guide for Windows 7 Users?

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Texas Justice · 07-18-2009 05:32 PM

Why would there be a step by step guide for a Beta OS? Anything is likely to be changed by the time the release version is available.

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ChiosuBlues · 07-19-2009 04:09 AM

So a W7 user is screwed. Thanks.

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F_M_J · 07-19-2009 04:51 AM

screwed? lol, its a BETA OS! To expect ANY software to work perfectly on it is ludicrous. You must not have read the large warning when you downloaded it detailing the rather likely possibility that some or even most of your software may not work on it.

houtex · 07-19-2009 08:06 AM

Pretty much the same reason to *NOT* buy a first year run of any car... there are always bugs the manufacturer has to work out, and by the second year, mostly, that's done.

It's also the reason I don't bother with the new software like Win7 until there's been a Service Pack 1 issued. Until then, it's not finished.

(Dating myself, yay. ) I remember when a version of DOS came out, and everyone rushed to get it. Back then, we were lemmings. Heh. Immediately, people started losing data afterwards. It was horrible. And then they figured out that the whole SpeedDisk setting to not write to the hard drive until the computer was idle or the buffer was full, while lightning fast for 'closing' things, didn't really work all that well on the 286s and such of the world.

An immediate workaround was issued (change it to cache reads, not writes) and the next version this was the norm instead for SpeedDisk.

So when you say you're screwed... yes, in fact, if you use any operating system nowadays before service packs are issues, you are likely to have something go wrong, not be supported, not work right, etc. Especially for Co* use, that's so low on the totem pole as to be non-existent in the Microsoft world.

But it sure is pretty isn't it?

/Guessing. Don't have it installed myself. Not really in any hurry to use it.

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B_Witched · 07-19-2009 08:54 AM

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screwed? lol, its a BETA OS! To expect ANY software to work perfectly on it is ludicrous. You must not have read the large warning when you downloaded it detailing the rather likely possibility that some or even most of your software may not work on it.

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It is not beta it is RC - as in release candidate, it is going gold later this month which pretty much is exactly the same as the RC build.

ChiosuBlues · 07-19-2009 10:11 AM

Bah. Pulled out my shiny XP disk and went back home. I'm going to skip the Vista Era if I can help it.

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SunGryphon · 07-19-2009 10:35 AM

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So a W7 user is screwed. Thanks.

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I'm a Win7 user and I've been quite happily playing since I flipped the compatibility off. In fact, I had 3 windows up last night to do some transfers, so not only does it work as well as it does in XP, it still allows me to multibox as well as I could in XP.

Father Xmas · 07-19-2009 11:41 AM

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screwed? lol, its a BETA OS! To expect ANY software to work perfectly on it is ludicrous. You must not have read the large warning when you downloaded it detailing the rather likely possibility that some or even most of your software may not work on it.

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It is not beta it is RC - as in release candidate, it is going gold later this month which pretty much is exactly the same as the RC build.

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Beta is the new Alpha.
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What most people were able to download legitimately from Microsoft is now a very old RC. There has been numerous changes to Win 7 since then, the vast majority of these have not been made available to the general public but are only available to 3rd party software developers enrolled in Microsoft's Win 7 development program.

The current build, made last week (the 10th I think) and still isn't the RTM (Release To Manufacturing) version, was 7600.

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