Geforce 295

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10-08-2009, 07:24 PM
Eggy

Geforce 295

Hey guys, thisquite frankly is pissing me off, been messing with it all day....
For whatever reason I cannot get wow to utilize both GPUs in my 295, it's sitting at around 50-60% load at all times, even though it's struggling for FPS. My CPU load is fine across all cores(Average about 60% load), RAM useage is about 75%, my HD load is about 1mb/s so it cant be that either. I've tried installing windows7, but quite frankly it's just way worse then it is in Vista, I had to lower the settings on my instances from running ultra on main and medium on the slaves to lowest on the slaves and 'high' on the main to even get playable FPS. But for now it's what I'm working with since I heard good things(Though I havn't seen anything good about it yet :P).

So if anyone got a heads on how to spread the load across both GPUs I sure would appriciate it.
10-08-2009, 07:54 PM
Ualaa

A lot of the X2 cards, with two physical cards on one board have this issue.
10-09-2009, 02:52 AM
alcattle

I suggest you give InnerSpace a try. They handle 2 graphics cards or 2x cards differently then WoW does.
10-09-2009, 03:06 AM
Eggy

Yeah I have been Al, but even following Lax's instructions(seemed to be working, it started the games as it should with second gpu ect.) the load is still sitting at 50-60% on the gfx card.
Been switching between win7 and win vista and vista is still running best, but like I said, cant use more then 60% load on the GPU, which means only one GPU used for WoW.
10-12-2009, 04:23 PM
Bovidae

If you are using more than 50% of your GPU potential, I would believe you are using both GPUs.

Unless one GPU is pushing 120% capacity.

I would look for other bottlenecks. What are the rest of your system specs?
10-12-2009, 07:03 PM
Eggy

It's an I7 920, OCed to 3.6ghz, 6gb RAM and I run two 60gb OCZ Vertex(SSD) in RAID0 where I got my system and my wow folder on. I am pretty confident it's the GFX that's the bottleneck here, since I can easily stress it to get about 90% load on the GPU on a normal benchmark.
10-13-2009, 09:27 AM
Slats

Your having the problem for the same reason people that have 3 video cards have - WoW very strongly likes to use the primariy video card to do all the processing and its difficult to trick it into using the others.

Sure you might have 2x or 3x cards but if check their load, all the 3D side of the crunching its being done by one GPU only.

For that exactly reason I bought a ATI 5870 over a GTX 295. I really wanted more Video RAM but it wasn't worth it for the dual-gpu issues.
10-13-2009, 10:46 PM
Noids

I also use a GTX 295 and IS with an 920 at 3.4GHz, 12G RAM and 2 x Intel X25Ms. I use a single 30" monitor with active client taking up the bulk of the screen and the 4 others down the right side.

My graphics options are ultimate on the main but with the shadow effects set to minimum. I find this is a major killer, even when I am running a single client in azeroth I will get sub max fps (but still playable).

Graphics on the alts is set to minimum on all and I have no problems at all with this in instances.

Where my graphics struggle is in Dal. I run around on the main getting 20-30fps in most situations there, although on porting, this can dip to 10. I never use follow because of it, but it is slightly annoying to get choppy performance at all. To be honest I have not looked at my graphics usage much, but I will check it out more closely and get back to you.

Cheers
10-27-2009, 02:30 PM
Babysir

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eggy

Yeah I have been Al, but even following Lax's instructions(seemed to be working, it started the games as it should with second gpu ect.) the load is still sitting at 50-60% on the gfx card.
Been switching between win7 and win vista and vista is still running best, but like I said, cant use more then 60% load on the GPU, which means only one GPU used for WoW.

Where can I find these instructions? I'm currently trying out ISboxer and I have an SLI system. It'd be great if I could have the slaves rendered on the second GPU while the main is rendered on the first.
10-27-2009, 02:46 PM
Drommon

Quote:

Originally Posted by Babysir

Where can I find these instructions? I'm currently trying out ISboxer and I have an SLI system. It'd be great if I could have the slaves rendered on the second GPU while the main is rendered on the first.

Likewise. I am looking for these instructions as well.

Drommon
10-27-2009, 05:49 PM
Babysir

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drommon

Likewise. I am looking for these instructions as well.

Drommon

I was able to get the instructions from Lax. basically in the IS configuration you need to create a profile for each GPU, then in ISBoxer select which character/client will use what GPU.

For example, I made two profiles and set it up so that my main would use profile 1 (GPU1) and all 4 of my slaves would use profile 2 (GPU2)
10-27-2009, 05:55 PM
Drommon

Quote:

Originally Posted by Babysir

I was able to get the instructions from Lax. basically in the IS configuration you need to create a profile for each GPU, then in ISBoxer select which character/client will use what GPU.

For example, I made two profiles and set it up so that my main would use profile 1 (GPU1) and all 4 of my slaves would use profile 2 (GPU2)

SWEET! I am sold now! I am going to try out innerspace just for this ability. Thanks for the info!

Drommon
11-04-2009, 06:01 AM
Seldum

I previously had a Geforce 7950 Gx2 which is also a dual gpu board. I never got the max potential out of this card and I had alot of different problems in multiple games probably due to either driver problems or games not being able to utilize the card properly.

Bought a 9800 GT with 1gb ram for half the price of the other card. and it works like a charm.... stupid multiple gpu shit.
11-04-2009, 07:37 AM
alcattle

would like to learn more about people that have gotten a dual-GPU card working using IS or Win 7? I need to upgrade soon, Santa maybe?? ;)
11-05-2009, 03:21 AM
Eggy

I'm planning on replacing my 295 as soon as i can get it off my hands, useless for WoW to be honest :(
11-05-2009, 08:18 AM
Seldum

I had the impression that the multiple GPU cards had a chip for controlling and utilizing both GPU so the computer/games only would see 1 GPU but a dahm fast one :D

But I guess its not like that.
11-05-2009, 10:09 PM
Ualaa

For a lot of applications, the X2 cards or SLI/Crossfire mode is a huge boost.
Unfortunately, wow is not one of these.

A 5870 is definitely on my "want" list.
Unless the GT300 comes out soon and is better.
Could care less about the DX11 stuff, basically I play wow and some older games.
Although I'll try Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3, I'm sure.