VR SLI in Elite Dangerous

Seneleron

Seneleron
I very much need an incentive to get myself another 970, in stead of going full ham on a 1080!
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You'd be better off going with just about ANY 10 series single card over a dual 970 setup at this point. Remember, SLI is *NOT* a 100% boost, and IIRC the price of the 1060 is at or LESS than a GTX 970 [new]

And for the relative difference in price, the GTX 1070 will blow BOTH the above setups out of the water.

From a performance standpoint, you are [with very rare very SPECIFIC exception] ALWAYS better off going with a higher performance single card rather than a dual card config in SLI. Less uncertainty about performance gains per title, less points of failure, less power consumption [2x 970 vs 1x 1080].

The only POSSIBLE exception would be adding a second GPU [non SLI] for PhysX. . . and I'm not even sure THAT'S worth it at this stage of the game.... I've never actually bothered to try it.

Unless you have the means to SLI 2 x GTX 1080. It won't help your performance in Elite: Dangerous, but UHHHH would it be hot to see ;D
 

teiva

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Not really. VR in SLI if done right can render each eye with each card. Serious Sam VR allows this and the results are astounding.
 

Confidenze

Confidenze
I guess the mail reason to go SLI VR would be to be able to get high end frames on a low end budget.
At this point 2 used 970s cost 30% of a new 1070.
 

-VR- Max Factor

-VR- Max Factor
BigDuke6ixx said:
Why the obsession with SLI? With my single 980it I am getting superb results. Why would I want to shell out more money on another one?

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How do we double the rift's frame rate then? All I'll end up doing is having two cards running at half power.
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Pretty simple. If you are running at 45fps due to graphics load on one card rendering both scenes at the same time, by getting 2 cards and having each card render the scene for each eye, your framerates may go up to 90 instead, doubling your framerate.

I think you may be getting confused with frame rate and refresh rate.
 

mp4x

mp4x
Has anyone done it ?

SLI can be glitchy as is, on a single screen, I wonder how well it would sync individual eyes...
 

BigDuke6ixx

BigDuke6ixx
Max Factor said:
Pretty simple. If you are running at 45fps due to graphics load on one card rendering both scenes at the same time, by getting 2 cards and having each card render the scene for each eye, your framerates may go up to 90 instead, doubling your framerate.

I think you may be getting confused with frame rate and refresh rate.
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Why would I bother when currently I get 90fps, silky smooth with GFX almost maxed? In fact, what with ATW, there is even less reason to waste hundreds of pounds on a second card.

BTW, I'm not confusing refresh with frame rate because.
 

dementia

dementia
I run Elite with 2 x 980Ti cards in forced SLI via the Nvidia driver config and the results are a definite improvement. I can use my CV1 with pretty much all the GFX options set to high/ultra and the frame rate is 90fps pretty much everywhere. It does still slow down every now and then when I drop out of hyperspace or super cruise but only for a few seconds and it is slight (but noticeable). With only a single 980Ti I have to drop the settings down to high/medium (and sometimes low on some of the settings) to get the same kind of experience.


If Elite supported SLI VR natively then it would get even better I expect.

That being said, I wonder if a 1080 or Titan X is more than twice as fast so if you're coming into it then maybe a single 1080 would be better? Who knows. I'd need to get a hold of one to try it with the Elite settings unchanged.
 

dogbite

dogbite
It is an interesting solution. Getting Oculus, Vive and FD to code for it may be quite a while, if ever, especially when it is a NVidia only solution. Remember what happened to 3DFX and who bought that tech.
 
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BigDuke6ixx

BigDuke6ixx
dementia said:
With only a single 980Ti I have to drop the settings down to high/medium (and sometimes low on some of the settings) to get the same kind of experience.
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I run high/ultra and when the going gets tough, ATW kicks in and everything stays smooth as glass. Like I said, a second cards isn't worth the extra money in performance gain
 
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