Guild Wars 2

rebalnz.3869:

all 600 users should not worry IMO, clearly there’s an optimization/driver issue with this series. EVERY single one of my mates who has a 600 series is having issue. ive tried all the different drivers zero difference in fps. one of my mates has a 560ti and is getting 20fps more than me in most situations, and im pretty sure he’s running slightly higher settings. so clearly something is wrong. im expecting the fps to double.

Really wish Arena net would acknowledge the problem. A simple, “We are working on it” would do wonders. The response I got from a Nvidia rep did not leave me hopefully, basically this isn’t going to be fixed for a good while.

Nice. The problem seems to be mainly with kepler cards though (that is, everyone except you for whatever reason haha).

I had a 580GTX SLI system before I made the upgrade to 690GTX and that was working just fine during the BWE and stress test.

That’s a pretty nice overclock, though gaming applications probably don’t benefit as much going that high. 4.5-4.7GHZ is a nice spot in terms of performance and heat. I’ve taken my i5-2500k as high as 4.9GHZ but it doesn’t make a difference in GW2. SLI usage is still only roughly equivalent to a single GPU.

I get the same performance in the Norm area (though my usage is never above 50/50). Try the Charr area… that harpy event with the mortar fire is really brutal on frame-rate.

Anyhow, you are very fortunate if it is indeed working for you. It’s obvious not for a lot of people, plenty of them with killer CPUs and great OC’s. Who knows, when a proper driver set is released you might notice improvements yourself.

Thanks Ravennus.

Believe me, I spent an unhealthy amount of time trying everything I could think of in nvidia inspector and control panel trying to get some better scaling. No luck.

A nvidia rep over at Guru3D suggested a CPU OC but I’m already running at 4.7GHZ…. Can’t really do anymore.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4403079&postcount=442

Cbuzz, what’s your CPU running at? Lots of people are having these issues btw. It’s posted all over the comment section on that link I posted.

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.

It’s pretty inconsistent on my system. As soon as any heavy action starts happening my frame-rate plummets. Turning the camera quickly also causes really noticeable stuttering

OS: Windows 7 64-bit
CPU: i5-2500k running at 4.7GHZ
GPU:690 GTX (SLI is not working on Kepler cards at the moment, so I guess it should be treated as a single 680)
Drivers:306.02
RAM:DDR3 8 GB

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

Actually, no it’s not. At least not for people using the high-end Nvidia GPUs.

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

Pretty much SLI is yielding the same or worse performance then using a single GPU. In general the game is running noticeably worse on Nvidia hardware. Hopefully Arena net is working closely with Nvidia to have this taken care of. I have my i5-2500k overclocked to 4.7GHZ and I am still having performance issues.