SLI support?

[soopytwist]

It is my assumption that The Dark Mod doesn't support SLI. I'm running two GTX 780's at 2560 x 1440 and at least one fan mission so far ran my PC into the ground.

By that I mean Doom 3 doesn't support SLI. If it did I'd have a smoother frame rate. On the other hand, Crysis 3 and Metro Last Light run fast and smooth maxed out and Doom 3 is an older game...

[7upMan]

Not only that, but it only supports one processor core, which is annoying, to say the least. However, we are still waiting for one of the coder gurus to fix that. You don't happen to be proficient with that kind of stuff?

[nbohr1more]

Lately, nvidia's OpenGL drivers have been particularly difficult for non-partner code. I suppose if a high profile benchmark site put TDM on display they would perhaps do a little work to optimize better. For most folks disabling SLI and Threading Optimization in the drivers will improve things significantly. Optionally, you could try manually choosing either the Doom 3 or Dark Athena SLI profiles.

 

Once the Dhewg merge is complete, there may be additional performance improvements on the TDM side.

 

That said, I must confess that the cave in NHAT 2.0 looks like a pathological case. It may have low draw count but the shadow fill and overdraw are probably quite high. I suggested that biker make the stalactites into LOD entities but that's my personal opinion.

[soopytwist]

...That said, I must confess that the cave in NHAT 2.0 looks like a pathological case. It may have low draw count but the shadow fill and overdraw are probably quite high. I suggested that biker make the stalactites into LOD entities but that's my personal opinion.

Yeah, NHAT was the map that made me not bother with the rest of it.

[AluminumHaste]

Turn off SLi you'll have a much better experience, and NHAT is a great little campaign. I had no problems running that map at 1920x1200, with 1 Radeon 7950 and an ancient i7 930 @ 3.8 Ghz.