err, no, 2 690’s is still 4 way sli. it still uses the same sli modes, the 2 690 cores appear to windows via a pci-16x to 8x bridge chip. so they appear as seperate video cards.
but multigpu cards often have more sli issues than 4 individual cards >.>
well look this is something I have been saying for a while now and it appears that a llot of people are mistaken. I spoke to Nvidia and evga and both told me that 4-way sli and quad sli is diffrent. They specified just because a motherboard supports 4 way sli does not mean it will support quad sli.{meaning 2 dual gpu cards}. I did not ask what that reason was because it did not pertain to me, but the graphics cards work dirrectly with the bios{as explained by nvidia tech support} so if the motherboard is not designed to accept 2 dual gpu cards it may not function properly. They even sent me an e-mail with quad certified motherboards. So despite what people may think, and how it may seem obvious 4cards or 2 dual cards are the same end result, they are not.
I had the same problem with my nvidia 690’s in quad sli. I followed the post on sli crossfire issues, it explained in detail how to make some changes that could arrect this. It worked for me.
in time there will be arena net updates and nvidia driver updates that will increase performance with the 690 and GW2, also make it work with sli, which I have not seen stated on any driver updates to this point.
hehe Quad sli, such a beast. But yea SLI has always been “iffy” and I am still never surprised when a game doesn’t work %100 using it
quad-sli is 2 cards with 4 gpu’s a lot of people keep saying its the same as 4-way sli, but it is not. one example is that you will not have micro stuttering on one card with 2 gpus. so if you have 4 individual cards then there is a higher chance of this than 4 gpu’s on 2 cards.
I was able to see that arenanet were associated with some of the files. why would this be?
Sorry, but how were you able to do this? Checkdsk won’t see any individual files inside the GW2 dat file, and orphaned files are displayed via index location rather than distinct file names.
Btw, that repair and chkdsk both cement it in my mind that the SSD is developing problems.
on the check disk it displays the files that are currupt or being orphaned. ALthough it is verry fast there is a few seconds where you can view some of the files before they said in the sentence guild wars 2 and last night i noticed it said arena net then when I tried to run the game it needed to repair itself. I personally dont care if you believe me I am just stating fact.
actually best ssd without no problems is samsung 830
buy it if u can, corsair force is outdated and its controller sux balls
If Im not mistaken the samsung 840 is the better model, just beating the corsair nuetron gtx by minimal marks. although I havent been able to find a 840 and corsair is known for their reliablity and awsome customer support
actually best ssd without no problems is samsung 830
buy it if u can, corsair force is outdated and its controller sux balls
If Im not mistaken the samsung 840 is the better model, just beating the corsair nuetron gtx by minimal marks. although I havent been able to find a 840 and corsair is known for their reliablity and awsome customer support
actually best ssd without no problems is samsung 830
buy it if u can, corsair force is outdated and its controller sux balls
If Im not mistaken the samsung 840 is the better model, just beating the corsair nuetron gtx by minimal marks. although I havent been able to find a 840 and corsair is known for their reliablity and awsome customer support
I just started GW2 up and it had to repair files for GW2. The last time this happened I had just done SE dungeon. last night I also did a SE dungeon run, I dont know if or why this would even cause a problem but it was the last thing I did in both instances.
Can somebody please help me with this. I have not been able to play this game with crossfire enabled due to huge fps drops when moving the camera. This applies anywhere in game, not just populated cities. Turning off crossfire solves the problem but I want to actually use my second card. I have 2xHD6850’s and the latest Application Profiles.
I have read that cross-fire causes huge micr stutering infact there was an article I read that showed a 70% increse in performance from using just one card as opposed to crossfire.
I currently have a x79 sabertooth with 2 690s installed. When I run quad-sli, and I play the asuran race there is some artifacts and the game runs slightly slow. When I make physx dedicated to 2b on the controll panel, I then have 2 gpu;s running and one dedicated to physx and one not doing anything. This eliminates the artifacts. I also ran the game with physx dedicated to 2a which puts the system into 3way-sli. I also dont have a problem and the game performance increases. I have to assume the quad-sli is causing micr-stutering. I dont see that GW2 is sli certified yet, By Anet or Nvidia, is there anything I could do to help this issue. The game runs fine in 3-way sli with the one gpu dedicated to physx so Its not a big problem, but a problem none the less.
My drives are working up to par, atto shows no decrease in file transfer, but I could not sleep and so I turned my computer on this morning, and once again there was a consistency check where there were some errors found. also a bunch of orphaned files were found. I was able to see that arenanet were associated with some of the files. why would this be?
I did 2 things one of wich made a diffrence. first i installed GW2 directly on the c drive rather than program files. And 2 I did not install Intels rst controller. I did read that it was causing issues with ssds on x79 platforms. My guess would be the irst controller was causing the problem , but Im not 100% sure.
Sandforce :<
ouch, that might very well be your problem.
those old sandforce controllers can corrupt data at random for some reason
I had a rampage 3 extreme in raid 0 for 2.5 years no problem, but it does seem I am going to update to a new corsair 250gb ssd, and just run it ahci, and making the ssd hotswap to install windows 7 on it. IU always ran everything off the raid, never used 2 seperate hdd
the last time I had this issue was trying to log off of GW2. the screen froze and could not access anything. as a last resort I decided to hard reset, thats when I saw the errors from GW2 on windows check for consistency. then the desktop became unresponsive and I re-installed windows.
User mode software cannot cause a system crash (unless its compiled with an unsafe compiler using very badly written ASM)
Go back to the basics and check everything starting with the bios configuration(Voltages and dram timings), Drivers(Sata, Video, Sound and Ethernet/Wlan)
The memory is in x.m.p. mode, and I have run benchmarks and stress tests on the system with no failure, any other ways to check?
have you run any actual hdd checks? it could be that the number of writes has been reached on those drives 2 years is a long time so it’s certainly possible with the older gen sold state drives.
I flash the drives at least every 6 months using parted magic. could this still be a problem?
I have had multiple windows 7 crashes since I started playing GW2. I have changed my system to x79 in raid0. I have had the same hard drives for 2 years with 0 problems. But the same time I installed GW2 I updated my hardware. Sometimes when windows starts a disk check and will find errors. The messages are fast but I notice files asociated with GW2. Im going to install GW2 on /c drive instead of program files and see if this helps. If anyone else has had the same types of issues please let me know. All hardware has been benchmarked and stress tested and is ok.
asus x79sabertooth
corsair platinum 2133 16gb
3930k cpu
evga 690×2 quad sli
windows 7 ultimate x64
corsair 80gb force ssd x2 raid0
It is really all the same. It’s 4 GPUs interconnected by a PCI-E bus. The GTX 690 have two GPUs each, connected by a PCI-E 3.0 bridge chip.
One 690 is usually around 95-100% of the performance of two 680s in SLI.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5805/nvidia-geforce-gtx-690-review-ultra-expensive-ultra-rare-ultra-fast/19
The GTX 690 doesn’t quite reach the performance of the GTX 680 SLI, but it’s very, very close. Based on our benchmarks we’re looking at 95% of the performance of the GTX 680 SLI at 5760×1200 and 96% of the performance at 2560×1600. These are measurable differences, but only just. For all practical purposes the GTX 690 is a single card GTX 680 SLI – a single card GTX 680 SLI that consumes noticeably less power under load and is at least marginally quieter too.
All I know is that I spoke to nvidia directly regarding this and they told me, to properly run quad-sli, the motherboard has to be quad sli certified. I have seen posts that say if a motherboard is 4-way capable that quad will work, but if this is the case why do some boards state 4-way and quad sli in the description?
Bottlenecking for us is not the issue, nvidia has to update some drivers that will increase performance with GW2, like they do with every game. In a few months all the kinks should be worked out. There will be updates to GW2 im not even sure if the game supports sli right now which is why so many people with sli have the issue where the game runs the same in or out of sli. And with quad sli it is a new ball of wax, people are saying quad is the same as 4-way, but its not. although it may appear to be the same. If you have 4 cards, with 4 GPU’s. the motherboard will not see 2 cards with 4 gpu’s the same.
As far as any PC on earth is concerned it functions identical to quad SLI.
Even one 690GTX core is overkill for this game, the problem is that this game is ridiculously CPU intensive. Even areas that don’t necessarily have tons of players can be very CPU intensive so you will hit tons of bottlenecks. I have a i5-2500k @ 4.8GHZ myself and I experience frequent frame-rate drops on my 690GTX.
I have checked the cpu usage and it is only running about 13% usage while GW2 is running. I dont know why there are framerate issues in quad-sli but im sure soon we will see and update from nvidia where gw2 will have mote performance in sli systems. Also if you look at past updates there are notes on 4 way sli and quad sli. If they were theoretically the same, why would they have seperate related updates to the drivers?
There is a big diffrence in compatability, some motherboards are only 4way-sli capable while others are quad sli-certified when the asus rampage 5 extreme comes out you will see the specs will say quad-sli certified. unlike the rampage 4 extreme which is only 4 waylsli capable. My MB the sabertooth is quad certified. But if you do the research you will find out there is a diffrence.
not to mention the performance boost you get with one 690 over 2 680’s. just do the benchmarks or search for them. You will see the one 690 is 60% better than 2 680’s.
As far as any PC on earth is concerned it functions identical to quad SLI.
Even one 690GTX core is overkill for this game, the problem is that this game is ridiculously CPU intensive. Even areas that don’t necessarily have tons of players can be very CPU intensive so you will hit tons of bottlenecks. I have a i5-2500k @ 4.8GHZ myself and I experience frequent frame-rate drops on my 690GTX.
quad sli and 4 way sli are 2 completely diffrent things,if you would like to check call nvidia and speak with them. They will tell you. although to have someone tell you in detail what the diffrences are, you will have to talk to one of the better tech guys there.
also I have not seen much cpu usage while palying the game, not anything abnormal. could be a north bridge bottleneck issue but I doubt it, with the x79 motherboards.
I have noticed some issues when in quad-sli with my 2 evga 690’s. I also noticed them during beta with quad SLI on 2 evga 590’s. With just one card in the issues seem to go away, but I dont want to remove the card jusr when its time to play GW2.
Framerate issues, and there are some screen images flickering in the character creation screen. Sometimes I only get 40 fps. I know GW2 is a little graphic intensive, but 2 690’s come on quad-sli. It should run any game out.
ok show me where there is a detailing of the mystic chest. Maybe it is me but I have not seen anything in the game announcements about the mystic chest add-in. This is the type of content I am talking about, and its not me because no one I spoke to in my guild knew about the mystic chest either…
Alviss.1256 obviously you are missing the point. Its not about the fact that I want to know all the spooilers in the game, in fact its the opposite I dont like spoilers. But when content is added to the game or, is already in the game but not explained well, it makes it hard to find out about how to do certain things.
This is what manuals are for. If someone wants to know how to do a certain in game special quest or dungeon ect. you can ask the map you are in, but the responses are very broad and most of the time leave you wondering what to do. Maybe the finding charr starting area wasnt a good point, because the gates are readily in game, but that does not negate my point. If it had been pointed out that Lions arch was the center hub to all the starting areas it would have been a lot easier.
I did not get any mail regarding this, and I read all my mail, and play the game at a good pace. I dont try to rush through it. But when some new content comes out it would be nice to know about it when it comes out and not a day after it is over.
This is a good question. If someone does not play all the time they would miss a lot of new content and not know about it. One way could be a e-mail to all active accounts with links to the appropriate place where the new content is discussed in detail. I took a look around and still have not come across the article on the mystic chest. there is a description on guild wars 2 wiki, but i did not find anything that states when it started. If there was an e-mail sent out saying new content with links, detailing the new content, I would have definitly known about the mystic chest. I dont see this being a huge issue, but at the same time maybe I am just not looking in the right places, so if anyone can point me in those places please do, as I have always had these types of issues. I feel like I have to search through tons of useless articles to find the answeres to questions that should be readily avalible.
Like I said I dont play everyday, and checking updates on the forum is good if you check al the time, It would be nice if there was a simpler way to know of in-game content. If I go away for 2 weeks and come back, I have to search for all updates for 2 weeks, and i have never seen anything about mystic chests?
I have to say that this is one area that I have seen an issue with on most mmo’s. New content is created or added and sometimes certain people do not know about it. This was the case in GW1 where sorrows furnace was added, but because I did not start playing the game until 8 m onths after its release I did not know about it for a long time. In GW2 I just saw a mystic chest ending today. I didnt even know about this until I happened to come across it online, and now its too late for me to even take part in it.
There has to be some way to explain certain in game changes or add-ons that some people have no knowledge of. Personally I dont play GW every single day and if something is added I dont know about it. One quick example of this is last night I was looking for ascolonian catacombs. I am a lvl 40 ele, and I was walking all over trying to get to the dungeon. I did not know you could access the charr area through Lions arch. There is a lot of in-game content that I still dont know, and the mystic chest really bothered me because I had not herd one thing about it. The forums are good but you have to post questions look for answeres, it is a hassel, there should be an easier way to know exactly what is going on in the world we play in.
It would be fun to discover if Grenchies still exist. Would Wintersday still be Grenth vs. Dwayna still? Will the Mad King Thorn make a triumphant return? I like the mention of a real Meatoberfest, the monastery in Queensdale could provide the ale. BTW, could the Queensdale monastery change their brews with the seasons? What holidays do the the Asura, Sylvari and Norn celebrate?
I am sure there will be no lack of surprise when the holiday comes around. After all the special events in GW1 that took place over the years, it went from decorations to full blown special items and buffs. over the years it was much fun to perticipate in these events as they offered so much fun after they were done.
I completely agree I would love to see fishing in the game. and tourneys are a great idea. sign up and compete but how would the fishing work, if it was completely random than no skill would be needed and the tourneys would be a joke.
there would be some way to add skills into the mix, actual player skills not in game skills. this would be tough.
I play an elementalist and whenever I conjure a weapon, I always have to worry about making it auto attack. There should be a way to keep this enabled if you want rather than being in the middle of a fight and then forgeting to ctrl click the first skill.
It has been a major problem mostly when I am in trouble and need to worry about dying.
1.An ever changing world, the dynamic events are good, but are always the same if they had changing dynamic events it would make for a better playability experience.
2.High lvl cap not easy to achieve. The 3rd day I played gw2 I saw lvl 80’s walking around I remember when I started playing wow it took me 2 months to get to lvl 20. (I got so bored I only played for 8 months. played Guild wars for 5 years)
3.Almost endless lvl cap content. when you do get to the top of your class the game should expand to almost unlimited possibities. I like side games like in FFVII. (for instance) there were so many things to do besides playing the game it made it so much fun.
I was checking out all the player suggestions and well to say the least there are so many good ideas. As we already know from GW1 AI.net is classic for there expansion releases with great new additions to the game. I cant wait to see whats in store for the future.
It may sound a little childish because I am 33 years old. But I would like to just chill out in game sometimes, and go fishing. Im sure there are many diffrent kinds of options that could be opened from this one semi-profession, such as cooking or account buffs for example. Sometimes in game you just need a break, and sitting down off some cliff on the edge of the water isnt a bad idea.
