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Last August I purchased an ASUS GeForce GTX 970 STRIX for playing War Thunder.

I just purchased another one of these cards last week and hooked them up in SLI.

I'm not seeing any real FPS improvements....averaging 100-120 FPS before and after the second card.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong? How do I take advantage of the 2 card SLI performance?

Thanks,

H.

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I don't know if that game has an SLI profile so go into the NVIDIA control panel, manage 3D settings, and then select war thunder. Then scroll down and under SLI profile change it to, force frame rendering 2.
 

EDIT: Also make sure you have SLI Enabled.
EDIT 2: Also make sure you have an SLI bridge connected.

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After some quick googling I found some forum posts for you that you may want to check

http://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/86860-nvidia-sli-support/page-10#entry3840681

Interesting....I too am getting the flickering.

I did the "optimize" option in the GeForce experience software, so I thought all would be good.

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If I turn on vsync, won't I be stuck at 60 FPS?

You will experience tearing if you have a higher Framerate than the refresh rate of your display. The FPS people prefer tearing as it gives them a small edge, but other than that, it isn't better IMO.

 

Some games have V-Sync horribly. With HL:2, I was having horrible input lag, so I turned V-Sync off (I was to lazy to lock it in CCC) So I got tearing.

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Last August I purchased an ASUS GeForce GTX 970 STRIX for playing War Thunder.

I just purchased another one of these cards last week and hooked them up in SLI.

I'm not seeing any real FPS improvements....averaging 100-120 FPS before and after the second card.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong? How do I take advantage of the 2 card SLI performance?

Thanks,

H.

sli for war thunder? also you might not see a fps improvement because the game might not support it even tho sli is on and the sli bridge is in place. so like gpu1 could be 100% load when gpu 2 could be 20% load

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That's the thing about SLI. It's only great when games support it. But if you could afford the best single gpu, I'd go for that any day of the year.

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sli for war thunder? also you might not see a fps improvement because the game might not support it even tho sli is on and the sli bridge is in place. so like gpu1 could be 100% load when gpu 2 could be 20% load

SLI bridge is in place....I followed Carey Holzman's tutorial on how to hook up 2 cards in SLI using the bridge and enabling SLI in the nvidia control panel

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When I researched for a good gaming monitor last summer, that one was constantly reviewed and/or recommended for gaming. Now you say it is a POS?

 

A monitor can only output a certain amount of frames. Im not saying its a bad gaming monitor but once it outputs 60 fps it cant output any more. Your game will tell you that it is doing 120 frames ps or whatever but you can still only see 60 fps.  If you want to see more frames you need to get a 144htz monitor

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A monitor can only output a certain amount of frames. Im not saying its a bad gaming monitor but once it outputs 60 fps it cant output any more. Your game will tell you that it is doing 120 frames ps or whatever but you can still only see 60 fps.  If you want to see more frames you need to get a 144htz monitor

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SLI bridge is in place....I followed Carey Holzman's tutorial on how to hook up 2 cards in SLI using the bridge and enabling SLI in the nvidia control panel

im not sure if war thunder supports sli but inst it a wast of money if your already getting 120 fps?

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