Guild Wars 2

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-306-02-beta-drivers-released/

“August 28th Update: We can confirm that the GeForce 306.02 beta drivers feature a Guild Wars 2 SLI profile that was undocumented in our release notes. As you may be aware, Guild Wars 2 is heavily CPU-bound, and on Kepler GPUs this may result in negative SLI scaling (a lower frame rate when playing with SLI enabled).

At this time we can also confirm that the Ambient Occlusion profile added to the game yesterday can result in certain pieces of terrain becoming transparent. If you experience this issue, simply turn off Ambient Occlusion in the Guild Wars 2 NVIDIA Control Panel profile."

Did you BOTHER to click the link, Cbuzz? There, I copy and pasted the relevant portion for you.

Varna.5162:

Cbuzz.5083:

BillFreist.1527:

Hello!

SLI works quite well, but we advise players to run Nvidia drivers 304.48 or later for this to run properly.

You can get these drivers here: http://www.geforce.com/drivers/beta-legacy
Also make sure to perform a ‘Clean’ installation .

-Bill

Confirmed, SLi working perfectly. Was testing SLi yesterday & was getting perfect GPU utilization & this is with the settings “TRULY” maxed out. The Betas 306.02 work best. Still getting a turning/shadows issue but SLi is working 100% that’s for sure.

Because I like making video’s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdz8WRnc28U

Did you check the link I posted? From Nvidia themselves. SLI is still not working as intended in Kepler cards. On my rig the scaling is terrible. Basically it’s like having only one GPU active.

Exactly! Thanks so much for that link, btw… now I finally understand why my terrain keep disappearing in GW2…. it’s the new ambient occlusion which is messing stuff up.

Cheers!

Downclocking your graphics card is a ridiculous solution, I’m sorry.

Thousands of us are having the same issue, and most of us run other games perfectly fine with our setups. Drivers up to date, and personally I have great airflow and cooling on my cards.

It’s simply not probable that thousands of players have their graphics cards suddenly crap out when we start playing GW2.

If in fact this was happening, you could prove that GW2 has such a severe optimization issue that it was actually causing damage to customer’s hardware… in which case ANet would be in serious trouble. However, I’ve never heard of that actually happening before.

SLI “works”, and provides me with better framerates…. 2 560ti’s here, no overclocking…. but it causes the dreaded hard PC crash with black screen and looping sound.

With SLI, it’s almost guaranteed crash-time for me in less than an hour of normal playing.
Turning off SLI, I still get 40+ FPS most of the time, and don’t hard crash nearly as often.

It’s really disappointing…