Question Regarding SLI and Crossfire-X in Ultra Mode
By
Angelo_Ambastion,
Posted on: 2011-02-21 06:36 in Player Questions
Actually if I remember correctly i17 actually FIXED this. I had two 8600gt's in sly well before i17 and I saw no difference when I dropped to 1 card just before I bought a newer graphics card. I thought I remember this being discussed in the beta notes and that i17 opened up sly and crossfire. But its been a long time since then and I might be drinking the funny water. So I really can't tell you for sure.
I am currently running a ati5770 single and I can open up Ultra mode ALMOST all the way. It get a bit jerky in heavy traffic areas.
Nvidia has enabled OpenGL 3.x SLI acceleration in their drivers for City of Heroes Ultra Mode. SLI support is still very early, and some multigpu cards (such as the GTX 295) have multiple issues with City of Heroes.
AMD has yet to enable OpenGL 3.x CrossFire support in their drivers... probably a good thing since performance changes for OpenGL on RadeonHD 6x00 series are causing merry havoc with regressions on older GPU's.
Back in Issue 17 when Ultra Mode was first available, There was supposedly problems using Ultra Mode with SLI and Crossfire-X. I'm very much interested in getting a second GPU and run SLI on my computer, but I can't find any evidence of the problem being resolved here on the forums, so I'm asking now, Has the problem been resolved? I'd rather not buy another $250 card only to discover that I'd be better off playing CoX without it.