PlayOnline and SLI not playing nice

[Pawkeshup]

Thanks for the kick in the pants Mhurron!

My issue was fixed by installing new drivers. I chose to get the beta-for-FFXI drivers. Below is the original issue. i should have been less lazy and just updated but I figured I'd ask first.

Ok, I'm sure this has been dealt with, but I haven't seen a posting regarding it. Maybe I'm just not using the right search terms or I'm not associating this correctly. Any help, including slapping me and pointing me to the right thread will be appreciated.

So, my problem is this: I start FFXI, or log out of it with SLI enabled, and this is what I see:



If I turn off SLI, it works fine. And SLI works fine inside of FFXI. However, there's just something... broken here. Either an option I need to set or a configuration I need to do.

I'll be honest. I know squat about SLI, this is my very first machine with it. I know both cards work, because SLI runs in everything else and improves framerates in everything else. It's just this one time where it's blank. The weird thing is when I do manage to blunder through blind, just before it loads FFXI, it will flash and fill in everything seconds before the screen changes.

Will the beta drivers fix that? I'm playing on an XPS m1730, and I know how to fix the inf file for that (Ironically I am a computer tech, just, again, don't know what to play with to fix this), but I don't want to really mess up the drivers since everything else is working beautifully.

Any ideas?

[Mhurron]

a - it works fine
b - use drivers 169.17 or higher

[Pawkeshup]

I should have also mentioned it's just sometimes. Not every time.

So you're saying the beta drivers should fix this?

[Mhurron]

Actually, SLI worked fine before 169.17. 169.17 just fixed other long standing problems with FFXI.

Oh and 169.21 are WHQL certified.

[Pawkeshup]

Ok, so where in nVidia can I check that particular version #? I have a version number but it doesn't match the forceware format.

The driver version I have is 6.14.11.5615

I can't just go out to get the forceware drivers, this being a notebook. It will claim not to see it.

[Mhurron]

How to Mod your own Drivers if you need to - Guru3D.com Forums

[Pawkeshup]

lol, I know how to, was just asking if there was another way to determine the version of the actual driver file. I'm getting Dell's driver package now so I can swipe the inf from it for the beta drivers, since I might as well see what else it can do for FFXI.