Over on both the EVGA and GeForce forums, a Nvidia customer going by the name “Ozy311” is reporting that SLI is broken in Windows 10. According to the customer, he performed a fresh install to make sure there would be no conflicts when playing games in SLI. However, he’s getting a DirectX function error once he enables NVSurround.
“When I enable NVSurround, the screens freeze during the reorder step and then I have to reboot,” Ozy311 writes. “I then have to go in and fix the SLI issue and then can play. After about 10 minutes BF4 crashes. So I disabled NVSurround and tried it with one screen only. Same lock in about 10 minutes. I pulled every peripheral off my computer and tried again. Yet another lock. I disabled SLI and it did not lock anymore.”
Ozy311 says that he was using Nvidia’s 353.62 drivers when the machine crashed. However, he rolled back to 353.30 to see if Windows 10 would crash again and it did. According to a follow-up post by “rjohnson11,” Nvidia supposedly knows about the bug and is presently working on a fix. There is no workaround at the moment, meaning Nvidia customers will have to play without SLI for the time being.
Many Nvidia customers are supposedly upset with the company because its flagship products didn’t work properly with Windows 10 on the platform’s launch day, which was last Wednesday. That’s understandable given how much money can be dumped into an SLI configuration only to be broken by a new operating system. Clearly Nvidia needs to get a fix out ASAP.
News of the SLI troubles in Windows 10 arrive after Nvidia customers complained back in May that there are no surround resolution options in 350.12 and newer drivers. NVSurround worked when the Titan X card first came out, but the feature became broken in the drivers that were released after Titan X hit the market.
“I run 3x Dell U2711s and have a maximum resolution of 7680x1440,” reports a user named Brunuk.” Despite SLI'd 780s this is sometime a bit much and I'll use 5760x1080 instead. I've always had to add this resolution manually from the surround setup screen (the only other default surround options being 4800x900 and 3840x720) however since 350.12 the list of other resolutions is completely empty.”
As far as we know, Nvidia has yet to fix the issue. We’ll update this post when we receive further information (and hopefully solutions) about the two problems.
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