Hi all,
First of all, here are my system's specs:
Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 x2 4800+
eVGA GeForce 7800GTX KO x2
Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music
Western Digital 350GB SATAII
Windows XP Pro SP2 w/ all priority updates
Drivers:
Nvidia nForce4 motherboard drivers (AMD x16) 6.85
AMD Althon 64 x2 CPU driver 1.1.1.2
Nvidia graphics driver 81.98
Sound Blaster X-Fi driver 5.12.14.1144
Miscrosoft hotfix for dual core CPU
DirectX Diagnosis Info:
Too large to attach (?!)
Okay, here's my problem:
I'll preface this by saying that all my other games run beautifully on my new rig. However, all versions of BF2 (retail to path 1.21) will choke while loading map data if I have SLI enabled and anti-aliasing set to 4x in-game. Loading stops, audio starts to stutter, and the spinning mouse icon starts to chug. I can't ESC out or even bring up the task manager with CTRL-ALT-DEL; I have to reset my machine physically. Everything is set to application-controlled in the Nvidia control app. The game runs fine with AA set to 2x internally.
I have changed CPU core affinity for BF2 to use only one core on my 4800+, but this doesn't sesolve the problem either.
If I diable SLI from Nvidia's control panel, I can run with 4x AA enabled, but I'd obviously like to take full advantage of my dual-GPU setup.
I'm wondering if this is an issue (which may already have bee discussed; I couldn't find it using the forum search) with the new-ish Asus A8N32-SLI motherboard and its dual x16 PCI-e slots.
Any help? It's appreciated!
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Danger Penguin
First of all, here are my system's specs:
Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 x2 4800+
eVGA GeForce 7800GTX KO x2
Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music
Western Digital 350GB SATAII
Windows XP Pro SP2 w/ all priority updates
Drivers:
Nvidia nForce4 motherboard drivers (AMD x16) 6.85
AMD Althon 64 x2 CPU driver 1.1.1.2
Nvidia graphics driver 81.98
Sound Blaster X-Fi driver 5.12.14.1144
Miscrosoft hotfix for dual core CPU
DirectX Diagnosis Info:
Too large to attach (?!)
Okay, here's my problem:
I'll preface this by saying that all my other games run beautifully on my new rig. However, all versions of BF2 (retail to path 1.21) will choke while loading map data if I have SLI enabled and anti-aliasing set to 4x in-game. Loading stops, audio starts to stutter, and the spinning mouse icon starts to chug. I can't ESC out or even bring up the task manager with CTRL-ALT-DEL; I have to reset my machine physically. Everything is set to application-controlled in the Nvidia control app. The game runs fine with AA set to 2x internally.
I have changed CPU core affinity for BF2 to use only one core on my 4800+, but this doesn't sesolve the problem either.
If I diable SLI from Nvidia's control panel, I can run with 4x AA enabled, but I'd obviously like to take full advantage of my dual-GPU setup.
I'm wondering if this is an issue (which may already have bee discussed; I couldn't find it using the forum search) with the new-ish Asus A8N32-SLI motherboard and its dual x16 PCI-e slots.
Any help? It's appreciated!
--
Danger Penguin
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