SLI support...When

[darrensimmons]

Any news on this will be working. Lots of us would love to use our powerful machines properly with this game especially seeing the benchmarks state a single 580 can't maintain 60fps?

[joelegecko]

I'd just try the "alternate rendering" road meanwhile. At least, that's the way I'm going to test the game once it's downloaded

[HJP]

Unfortunately, this is something that nvidia needs to work on more than the devs. Hopefully there'll be a profile out soon. I really want SLI support too because the fps dips into the 20s when I shoot a flare gun on a single GTX560 TI.

[yogibbear]

How are you guys playing this already? It literally only came out 30 mins ago.... what sort of insane spy-technology internet download speeds do you get?

[MarkusRMD]

SLI is very high on our priorities to investigate and make work.

AMD btw. has a Crossfire profile for Alan Wake (http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloa...n_win7-64.aspx) that gives 60-75% boost. Nvidia could probably do something similar.

[HJP]

Originally Posted by yogibbear

How are you guys playing this already? It literally only came out 30 mins ago.... what sort of insane spy-technology internet download speeds do you get?

Downloaded at like 10MBps for me.

[yogibbear]

Originally Posted by HJP

Downloaded at like 10MBps for me.

Damn that is some awesome speed!

I'm on 24MB/s, but steam is only going at 500kb/s

I'm sure the next driver release from nvidia will include an sli profile.

[Max-Payne]

No SLI support? It's a shame, good thing I have read the forum.
I think I will pass then, I hope they will add the support in time for the retail version.

[zynaps]

From the screens I've seen the only difference between the 360 and PC version appears to be higher resolution and better texture sizes? If the game runs OK on an ancient console why would it need SLI or even a remotely powerful GPU to run OK on a PC? I mean... exactly what makes the engine so slow on a PC that a 580 barely can hit 60fps? I'd expect a 580 to be able to hit several hundred FPS on an old engine like this.

[BangTail]

I wish I'd done a little more research before buying this.

FPS in the low 20s @ 2560 (3930K @ 4Ghz, 580 SLI etc). The 2nd card is absolutely needed for this to run properly in my situation.

I'm guessing since AMD have managed a profile, Nvidia should have no problem either.

JFYI, forcing AFR/AFR2 does engage both GPUs but the FPS was in the mid teens so that is not a solution and since the engine is an in house job made especially for this game and aptly named, the 'Alan Wake' engine, it is difficult to know what existing profile may work for it

@ Zynaps - It has a ton of high end features like Occlusion, AA, Godrays etc and looks way better than the Xbox 360 version - I ran them side by side and the PC version is stunning but severely gimped without SLI (at least at my res/detail settings).

[mdk5631]

can u force it though the Nvidia control panel?

[trek554]

Originally Posted by zynaps

From the screens I've seen the only difference between the 360 and PC version appears to be higher resolution and better texture sizes? If the game runs OK on an ancient console why would it need SLI or even a remotely powerful GPU to run OK on a PC? I mean... exactly what makes the engine so slow on a PC that a 580 barely can hit 60fps? I'd expect a 580 to be able to hit several hundred FPS on an old engine like this.

perhaps you should look at the graphics settings sticky. and remember just cranking up the res to 1920x1080 and playing at 60 fps takes over 4x the gpu power than 30 fps at 1280x720. throw in some additional graphics options and AA on top of that then it does not take long before even higher end gpus can get pushed a bit. I mean that in general and not just for this game.

[PurSpyk!!]

Damn was jsut about to buy this, will wait, no use if Sli is not currently supported and Nvidia lately have been extremely slow in releasing updates.

Will wait for the first sale, hopefully byu then we will have a fix, but from the screenshots this does look like a really good game. Any idea the length of the game?

[yogibbear]

Originally Posted by BangTail

I wish I'd done a little more research before buying this.

FPS in the low 20s @ 2560 (3930K @ 4Ghz, 580 SLI etc). The 2nd card is absolutely needed for this to run properly in my situation.

I'm guessing since AMD have managed a profile, Nvidia should have no problem either.

JFYI, forcing AFR/AFR2 does engage both GPUs but the FPS was in the mid teens so that is not a solution and since the engine is an in house job made especially for this game and aptly named, the 'Alan Wake' engine, it is difficult to know what existing profile may work for it

@ Zynaps - It has a ton of high end features like Occlusion, AA, Godrays etc and looks way better than the Xbox 360 version - I ran them side by side and the PC version is stunning but severely gimped without SLI (at least at my res/detail settings).

Have you tried disabling the 2nd card and seeing if that runs faster? (usually without a profile disabling the 2nd card can speed things up)

[alanzi]

Originally Posted by MarkusRMD

SLI is very high on our priorities to investigate and make work.

AMD btw. has a Crossfire profile for Alan Wake (http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloa...n_win7-64.aspx) that gives 60-75% boost. Nvidia could probably do something similar.

nice, good to know. now the nvidia boys only have to wait...