SLI.

[Southpaw-SOC 0]

Has anyone actually seen a difference using SLI or ATI Crossfire for OFP? I can see it working with AA because it's so much newer, but I'm curious about whether it would make a difference in OFP. I'm looking at going in that direction soon and wanted to know what other users have found. Thanks.

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[action man 0]

Forgive my ignorance,but what's "SLI" and ati crossfire"?

[LT.INSTG8R 0]

SLI and Crossfire are Dual Graphics card solutions by both Nvidia and ATI

[Southpaw-SOC 0]

Well.....with that rig I would imagine you don't have too many problems running anything. But my question still remains. In your opinion does running a CrossFire or SLI system improve the graphics and/or framerate of OFP? The reason I'm curious is that many people have said that OFP is so old that it will not take advantage of SLI. Others have said it doesn't matter what game it is, it will always make a difference for the positive. I'm adding a second EVGA 7900GT anyway in a couple of weeks, I just want to know whether or not to expect a difference in OFP.

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[Metal Heart 0]

The question is, is the gfx card the bottleneck? If it ain't, better gfx card doesn't make a difference because for every frame, there's a lot of calculation going on for the cpu and the scene will not be rendered until this "simulation cycle" is completed.

For example, make a mission with tons of AI, place your self far away from them so they won't be rendered and see how the frame rate drops because there's too much load on the cpu, having better gfx card won't make any difference in this scenario. If all these units were visible, then having a better gfx card might have a noticeable impact. In OFP, the bottleneck is usually always the processor so I'd say there's no difference in having one or two good gfx cards.

[456820 0]

Yeh like Metal Heart said. If you have a terrible gfx card already lke i did. (Geforce 2) then get a better card you will notice an fps rise but there will be a limit. OFP doesnt rely on your gfx card too much. Best bet save your mney and upgrade your cpu some time.

[UNN 0]

I couldn't see any advantage in FPS using SLI with OFP. A good processor and memory would make more sence, if your buying it just for that.

The best you can hope to get from it is, SLI anti-aliasing with OFP. That does work.

[Radic 0]

The comments above about the gfx card only going so far are spot on - I've played OFP: RES for years and progressed thru systems from 2.0 Ghz P4 and Ti4200 256 card thru to current A64 3700+ system and 7800GS 256 gfx card

- the progression all along in my case has been gfx card first then cpu so I went from the Ti4200 to Fx5900Ultra then went up in CPU from 2.0 Ghz p4 to A64 3200+ - then went up to 6600GT gfx then up to A64 3700+ then finally up to 7800GS

- overall the graphics cards seem to make very little difference!! The big effect is CPU - tho from what I saw when I "upgraded" to the 6600GT - the gfx memory may be very very important - ie. that 6600GT was only 128Mb and really showed no visible improvement in OFP over the old 5900U 256.

I would really like to see how a 7800GS 512 goes.

[echo1 0]

'scuse me if Im out of date, but doesnt the game have to support SLI for you to notice the difference? At any rate, the previous sentiments are true - one good graphics card is better than two inferior ones.