New Forms of SLIAA draw near.

ChrisRay · 03-31-09, 09:34 PM

*Note* This is a Carbon Copy of my SLIZONE post. But I am really excited about what I have seen in this area of driver development.

Since the introduction of Windows Vista I have been petitioning and on Nvidia's case about SLIAA. The old 185x.xx driver simply offered a preview that Nvidia was doing with SLIAA. In the very near future. We're going to see an official driver with SLIAA support that has improved beyond what we already saw with the 185.xx driver. Alot of the modes have changed "Completely" and look alot better than they did in the leaked driver. Improvements have been made to SLI 32x. SLI 64x, SLI 64xQ and SLI 64x. As well as the Dual GPU modes, SLI 32xQ and SLI 32x.

gstanford · 03-31-09, 10:03 PM

About damn time Vista SLI users were able to use SLIAA too!

**MUYA** · 03-31-09, 10:06 PM

64XQ would be approaching the levels of AA that is used in render farms for animated movies right?

Wow, but again, begs the question, would it be playable even with 2 x 295 GTX's tho!

8XQ kills my 295 GTX in Age of Conan / DX10 mode

JasonPC · 03-31-09, 10:06 PM

Hmm I thought this has been around for a while even on Vista? Oh and you lose the SLI rendering abilities when you enable this AA so not only do you get a decrease in frames due to AA, but also because of this setting.

03-31-09, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by MUYA

64XQ would be approaching the levels of AA that is used in render farms for animated movies right?

Wow, but again, begs the question, would it be playable even with 2 x 295 GTX's tho!

8XQ kills my 295 GTX in Age of Conan / DX10 mode

Quake 2 with 64xQAA!

**MUYA** · 03-31-09, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by |MaguS|

Quake 2 with 64xQAA!

ChrisRay · 03-31-09, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by JasonPC

Hmm I thought this has been around for a while even on Vista? Oh and you lose the SLI rendering abilities when you enable this AA so not only do you get a decrease in frames do to AA, but also because of this setting.

SLIAA has been around for a while. However the flexibility and quality of the upcoming modes has not bee. Theres an early really crappy leaked driver that has an early look at some of them. However they have mostly all changed to something of higher quality.

ChrisRay · 03-31-09, 10:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MUYA

64XQ would be approaching the levels of AA that is used in render farms for animated movies right?

Wow, but again, begs the question, would it be playable even with 2 x 295 GTX's tho!

8XQ kills my 295 GTX in Age of Conan / DX10 mode

Depends the game. I know SLI 64x works with age of conan and produces performance similar to 16xAA of a single GTX 260. To be honest. SLIAA is extremely important feature to me. And hence why I have been on Nvidia's case about it. Actually its kinda a joke around Nvidia because how much there internal QA teams make fun of me for it.

But in reality. SLIAA is usable in more games than its not. It doesnt provide the quality of pure supersampling. So it may not always be preferable to say 32xS. But its also a hell of alot more usable in most games and has better HDR compatibility.

gstanford · 03-31-09, 10:48 PM

SLIAA is one of the main reasons to even bother with a SLI setup in the first place IMO. Most of the time I'm pretty happy with the performance a single highend card can provide.

Now, if only nvidia would forget about this GTX275 response to ATi and release some 2 or 4 gb GTX285's with full speed memory, I'd be very happy.

**MUYA** · 03-31-09, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by ChrisRay

Depends the game. I know SLI 64x works with age of conan and produces performance similar to 16xAA of a single GTX 260. To be honest. SLIAA is extremely important feature to me. And hence why I have been on Nvidia's case about it. Actually its kinda a joke around Nvidia because how much there internal QA teams make fun of me for it.

But in reality. SLIAA is usable in more games than its not. It doesnt provide the qiuality of pure supersampling. So it may not always be preferable to say 32xS. But its also a hell of alot more usable in most games and has better HDR compatibility.

When these drivers become available, I will give them a spin!

However, on an unrelated note, is there any indication that NVIDIA will work with Funcom for Age Of Conan and DX10? Coz DX10 mode for this game is more demanding than Crysis Warhead!!

CaptNKILL · 03-31-09, 11:10 PM

Man, what kind of monitors are people using that they can actually see the difference in anything more than 8xAA?

Are you guys on 52" 720P screens?

gstanford · 03-31-09, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by CaptNKILL

Man, what kind of monitors are people using that they can actually see the difference in anything more than 8xAA?

Are you guys on 52" 720P screens?

See my signature. I use a Samsung 30" 305T. You don't need that big a monitor to see the difference though, the differences were quite visible with SLI'd 7900's on a 19" Philips 109P20 CRT I used to own.

03-31-09, 09:34 PM	#1
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03-31-09, 10:03 PM	#2
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03-31-09, 10:06 PM	#3
MUYA Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Hong Kong Posts: 6,774	Re: New Forms of SLIAA draw near. 64XQ would be approaching the levels of AA that is used in render farms for animated movies right? Wow, but again, begs the question, would it be playable even with 2 x 295 GTX's tho! 8XQ kills my 295 GTX in Age of Conan / DX10 mode __________________ I5-2500k@4.7GHz - MSI Z77A-GD65 - 4GB X2 A-DATA DDR3 1600 - Corsair H100 - Antec Quatro 850W Gigabyte Windforce X3 GTX 680 OC - Dell 24" IPS Intel 320 300 GB SSD - 1 TB Hitachi HDD - 2x 250 GB WD HDD Corsair K90 - Corsair Venegance 2000 Headset - Razer Naga Epic Corsair 600T Case

03-31-09, 10:06 PM	#4
JasonPC Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 2,103	Re: New Forms of SLIAA draw near. Hmm I thought this has been around for a while even on Vista? Oh and you lose the SLI rendering abilities when you enable this AA so not only do you get a decrease in frames due to AA, but also because of this setting.

03-31-09, 10:48 PM	#9
gstanford Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 799	Re: New Forms of SLIAA draw near. SLIAA is one of the main reasons to even bother with a SLI setup in the first place IMO. Most of the time I'm pretty happy with the performance a single highend card can provide. Now, if only nvidia would forget about this GTX275 response to ATi and release some 2 or 4 gb GTX285's with full speed memory, I'd be very happy. __________________ Primary rig: CPU: Intel i7 2600K Cooler: Cooler MAster Hyper 212+ Motherboard Asrock z68 Extreme 4 Memory: 8gb Corsair DDR-3 1333 Video: 2x Galaxy GTX 670 reference 2gb PhysX: Gainward GTX 460 SE 1gb Video Capture: Compro E-700 DVB-T PCI-e PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W Monitor: Samsung 305T 30" Case: Coolermaster stacker 830 Hard drives: 5x 500gb seagate SATA (non raid) Burner: Samsung SH-S18L OS: Vista Ultimate 64 bit and Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit MS Sidewinder Joystick Logitech G25 wheel Logitech 5.1 speaker system

03-31-09, 11:10 PM	#11
CaptNKILL CUBE Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: PA, USA Posts: 18,844	Re: New Forms of SLIAA draw near. Man, what kind of monitors are people using that they can actually see the difference in anything more than 8xAA? Are you guys on 52" 720P screens? __________________ ---- Primary Rig ---- CoolerMaster 690 II Advance - Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 4.0Ghz + Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme 6GB DDR2 @ 942Mhz 5-5-5-20 1.9v (2x1Gb Wintec AMPX PC2-8500 & 2x2Gb G.Skill PC2-6400) - EVGA Geforce GTX 470 @ 750/1500/1850 (1.050v) Sparkle Geforce GTS 250 1Gb Low-Profile (Physx) - Crucial RealSSD C300 64Gb SSD - Seagate 7200.12 500Gb SATA - Seagate 7200.10 320Gb SATA ASUS VW266H 25.5" LCD - OCZ GameXStream 700W PSU - ASUS Xonar DX - Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Surround - Windows 7 Professional x64 ---- HTPC ---- Asus M3A78-EM 780G - AMD Athlon X2 5050e 45W @ 2.6Ghz - 2x2GB Kingston PC2-6400 DDR2 - Sparkle 350W PSU Seagate 7200.10 320Gb SATA - Seagate 7200.10 250Gb SATA - Athenatech A100BB.350 MicroATX Desktop - Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic

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