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just been running the 260.99 drivers and the new sli patch, all seems well,

been playing BC2 for an hour and no glitches :)
 

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Hi again... thanks for all the help here on the forum... :)
but i have one question..
does this patch work on windows 7 64bit??
i realy hope so .. i just got 8 gigs of ram and found out thet i cant use it in 32bit :S
 

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It does not work on win7x64... IT ROCKS!!! :rockout: :D

Ps: Seriously slipatch guys, I can´t express how much I do admire you, your work is totally awesome, 4 "ordinary" guys beating the "empire"... :respect:
Ps2: Thanks again and again and again and again... :toast:
 
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Tried v260.99 for 1 hour, so far so good!!! :roll:

Ps: I'm using all parts with stock clock/voltage in order to isolate any issue and not "bother" with anything that might not be directly related to the GREAT SLiPatch ;)
 
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It does not work on win7x64... IT ROCKS!!! :rockout: :D

Ps: Seriously slipatch guys, I can´t express how much I do admire you, your work is totally awesome, 4 "ordinary" guys beating the "empire"... :respect:
Ps2: Thanks again and again and again and again... :toast:

you did not saw star wars then?:p sounds pretty familiar to the hack guys, if you ask me :D
 

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Hi,

Slipatch 0.9b and forceware 260.99 is not working for me.
I tried two new windows installations and its still not working.

My System:

Intel Q6600 @ 3,0GHz
4GB RAM
Gigabyte X38-DQ6
2x GTX460 with SLI-Bridge
Windows 7 Home Premium x64 (german)

PS: The old Patch and forceware 258.xx worked without problems
 

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What does "not working" means? SLi option does not appear? Have you disabled UAC and run patch as an administrator?

Just thinking outloud trying to help you ;)
 

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UAC is disabled (the patch shows this too) and I installed / started slipatch with "run as administrator", also tried to install it with just a double click in the explorer.
In the nvidia control the sli option does not appear, gpu-z says sli not present.

The patch itself seams to install right, cause the new boot-menu is there and Windows loads correctly.
 

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I really can't help you further 'cause I'm a newbie with slipatch :ohwell:

Afaik, gpu-z only shows "sli present" when it's enabled in control panel, so no surpise its showing disabled as long as it's disabled in control panel.

What I've read is that 460's needs the bridge ir order to sli option to appear, I would advice you to check the bridge.

Hope anyone more experienced can help you out :)


Edit: Seems that since v260.xx sli bridge is required in order to enable SLi with gtx460's, I can neither confirm or denied it cause I've started using sli with bridge on.
 
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PROBLEM SOLVED!!!

Guess I'am a little stupid not to check the SLI-Connector.
It got loose only a very tiny bit (can't even see it).
After I press it down and startet my System, nvidia Control Panel finally said that my Card are SLI-able. Maybe it was loose all along and the old driver didn't care about the connector.

!!! Thanks for this great Tool !!!

@elbubi: Thanks for the help!
 
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GLAD to see it's working!!! :roll:

Happy that could give you a hand :toast:

Ps: This tool is just amazing, I do not get tired of saying THANK YOU :respect:
 

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Hey, I need help..

I can't run SLi.

I installed the 0.9b patch, restarted and booted into it on the boot manager.
I've tried 261.99 and 258.96.

I have a 1gB card and a 768mB card, both are GTX 460s.
I set Coolbits in the registry.
I have an ASRock 880G Extreme3

I do NOT have an SLi bridge (could this be the reason?)

Help needed, thanks. :(
 

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Afaik, you can't sli 2 cards with different memory size :ohwell:, but I am no expert at all.

Regards

Ps: I guess coolbits is totally unnecesary nowadays.

Edit: Look at this SLI FAQ'S from Nvidia, one on the last ones talks about your case => http://www.slizone.com/page/slizone_faq.html
 
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Afaik, you can't sli 2 cards with different memory size :ohwell:, but I am no expert at all.

Regards

Ps: I guess coolbits is totally unnecesary nowadays.

Edit: Look at this SLI FAQ'S from Nvidia, one on the last ones talks about your case => http://www.slizone.com/page/slizone_faq.html

That's just letting us know that the data is not split between the cards, but rather that the same data is put on both of them. Therefore, the RAM is effectively "not" doubled. Doesn't mean a 768 works with a 1gB. :)
 

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Hey, I need help..

I can't run SLi.

I installed the 0.9b patch, restarted and booted into it on the boot manager.
I've tried 261.99 and 258.96.

I have a 1gB card and a 768mB card, both are GTX 460s.
I set Coolbits in the registry.
I have an ASRock 880G Extreme3

I do NOT have an SLi bridge (could this be the reason?)

Help needed, thanks. :(

It's not only a question of memory size. The buses of both cards are different - 256 bit for the 1GB card, 192 bit for the 768MB.

I guess it'll be a no-go, mate.

Cheers.
 

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I´m gonna ask probably the most stupid question ever asked about sli patch:

When I boot under sli profile, windows boot screen shows "Starting Windows" instead of "Iniciando Windows" (I have spanish version installed). Is there anyway to edit that?

Thanks in advance!!!
 
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Trying to get this working with a asus p7p55d board and 2 GTX260's patch applied successfully all requirments met and it boots from the SLI hack boot option. im running 260.99's on windows 7 x64 any ideas?
 
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Trying to get this working with a asus p7p55d board and 2 GTX260's patch applied successfully all requirments met and it boots from the SLI hack boot option. im running 260.99's on windows 7 x64 any ideas?

What issues are you having?
 

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What issues are you having?

the biggest is teh fact that its not SLI capable ;) me and a friend talked about enabling it. and he managed to hack the bios to do it using old drivers but it doesnt work anymore.
 
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the biggest is teh fact that its not SLI capable ;) me and a friend talked about enabling it. and he managed to hack the bios to do it using old drivers but it doesnt work anymore.

Hmmm, so are you trying to game and only get activity from one card or what?
 

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Hmmm, so are you trying to game and only get activity from one card or what?

o yeah it picks up both and runs physx on card 2 but i dont have an enable SLI option in my CP and GPU-Z says its disabled with no (SLI-availible) tag.
 

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are you using 0.9b patch?

the 260.99 came out 2 days ago im not sure they work..i had success with 280's with 195.xx drivers
 

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the 260.99 came out 2 days ago im not sure they work..i had success with 280's with 195.xx drivers

260.99 set works flawlessly with patch 0.9b ;)

@Solaris

As AthlonX2 said, you must use latest patch version (v0.9b). If it does still not work, and you're not using it, I would advice you to try with the sli bridge on.

Regards and good luck :)
 
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260.99 set works flawlessly with patch 0.9b ;)

@Solaris

As AthlonX2 said, you must use latest patch version (v0.9b). If it does still not work, and you're not using it, I would advice you to try with the sli bridge on.

Regards and good luck :)

I am sticking to 260.63. 260.99 worked like crap for me and when playing BC@ my display went black. I assume idiots at Nvidia are trying to block the patch again.
 

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260.99 whql confirmed working under XP64. Just ran a session of dead rising2 and working perfect!
 
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