Soldato
I'll copy and paste an answer I posted t'other day in another thread. This is about SLI and Gsync too, but the main meat of the issue is still SLI. I'm thinking of starting a dedicated thread about SLI, specific games and stutter issues, and the possible tweaks and fixes for each...
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It's not just driver issues per se either, and although SLI is considered better than crossfire generally, sometimes SLI just will not get on with some games with regards to stutter and microstutter. Out of the games I currently own/ play the following just flat out stutter with 2 cards, no matter what, and the only way to play them smoothly is to use one card...
- Far cry 3 (not got 4 yet, but from what I've heard it's simialr)
- Titanfall
- Watchdogs
- Crysis 2 with MaldoHD mod (weird one that!)
Make of that what you will, there are bound to be others that I haven't got or played.
There are other games I have where I've had to write little readme files with personal notes and tweaks for getting 2 cards to run smooth. These currently include off the top of my head (there are more)
- GTA5
- Witcher 3
- Skyrim
- BF4
- Bioshock Infinite
- GTA4
Interestingly, a lot of these have needed special tweaks and attention since getting my Gsync Rog Swift. Although Gsync is a 'fix' for some games in terms of dropped frames and vsync type 'judders', it is not a cure for stutter or microstutter WHEN YOU HAVE SLI, in certain games. It can actually make some games feel worse when stutters happen, because it's so smooth normally it exacerbates it.
Take GTA5 as one working example, as it's new. This is what I have to do to get perfectly smooth gameplay using 2 780Ti's in SLI, along with my Gsync Rog Swift:
- Set the ingame HZ setting to 60 (which is actually listed as 59 bizarrely) so the monitor is running at 60Hz
- Use bandicam or Dxtory to limit the framerate to 59
If I run the screen at 120Hz, or 144Hz it is jittery as hell. If I try any other combination of framerate limiter number it is jittery as hell. It's a weird but odd fix and just one example. Other games (like Skyrim with ENB) need different and sometimes far more elaborate tweaks and workarounds!
Having said all that I still love Gsync. One powerful card and Gsync is amazing
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