I was just able to recreate a similar issue. Went into nvcp and changed sli rendering to 3-way gpu, rather than nvidia recommended and fired up bf3, I couldn't get anything higher than 7 fps. Switched the settings back to default and all was well. Quite strange as doing so in previous driver versions would not have the same affect, definitely a bug.

I'm very new to Nvidia control Panel... you are mentioning "recommended" as an SLI setting in control panel. I am unable to see that option anywhere I am looking.
 
Configure SI, surround, physics is where I "span displays with surround" and it shows SLI enabled/disabled, but no other options...
 
there is also the "manage 3d settings" where it lists global and various other games/programs, and there is a lot of different settings options, AA/FXAA, vsync etc, I don't see any option to set "reccomneded SLI "settings...
I assume i am just not looking in the correct location?
 
 
 

This image should help you locate it, courtesy of maniac.
 

Thanks for the pic!!
 
I am currently running the beta drivers, nvidia control panel version is 4.4.730.0
 
under no games do i see the sli option, it goes from power management to texture, skipping the SLI line..
 
SLI shows enabled in cp
just tried reinstalling 3.24, no change, have to run to work ...will unisnatll and try the 3.10's this afternoon...
 

Karandar


Thanks for the pic!!

I am currently running the beta drivers, nvidia control panel version is 4.4.730.0

under no games do i see the sli option, it goes from power management to texture, skipping the SLI line..

SLI shows enabled in cp
just tried reinstalling 3.24, no change, have to run to work ...will unisnatll and try the 3.10's this afternoon...

 
I decided to go with

Intel Ivy Bridge Processor and Z77 platform.

Nice,curious to see some temps and o.c. with ivy,post back when you get it up and running.

godzilla47


Nice,curious to see some temps and o.c. with ivy,post back when you get it up and running.

I will gave you some news about my new setup :
 
Gigabyte sniper m3 motherboard
Intel ivy bridge i7 3770k
Gskill ddr3-1600 Ripjaw X
2X gtx680 SLI
Asus 27"" 3d screen
Antec liquid cooling system 920 H2O
 
I will gave you soon some benchmark soon.
 

Nearly the same rig as i am throwing together...Should be good.
 
Nvidia tech support is "working on my issue " now, they are atempting to build a similar AMD system to confirm the problem and work on it... I have 3 active forums, all with people with the same issue as I am having. so, if/when I get it figured out, will certainly let everyone know.
 
 

Will do. By the sound of things, Ivy will not overclock as well as SB do but most are getting 4.4-4.5ghz at stock voltage...going much above 4.6 amd most sites see the temps climb crazy. Hope the H100 helps that :)
 
The new PCIe 3.0 platform is a Must for SLI 680's that offers nearly double the bandwidth of the older PcIe 2,0 boards... ...Intel does not have enough PCIe lanes for a lot of serious gamers. The PCIe 2.0 z68 platform wasn't a viable option, but anyone building a single GPU system, the sale prces of 2700k's at the moment are tremendous value!s ...anyone adding a PCIe SSD and you'll start losing mobo features as Intels logic shuts em down...with that kind of hardware, one must go for Sandy Bridge E ...
 
 
 
 

Unfortunately even uninstalling the 3.24 and reinstalling the 3.10, does not give me that SLI line to modify :( 
 
The control panel is telling me SLI enabled under the surround/physx area...
 
 

I restored my nvidia settings and now i get 4-7fps on battlefield 3 no matter what window size. i was getting over 100fps before.
can someone fix this stupid problem.
 
i will write a cheque out to whomever fixes this

The latest reply from Nvidia informed me they have duplicated, identified as  possibly a known bios issue they have reported to mobo makers and are working on it to confirm this is the cause...this was yesterday, so they are making progress...
 
:)
 
Kar

With my new setup all my games work ok in SLI 3d. My new setup have pcie 3.0. It could be the reason why it works.
For me AMD no more.  
cine bench11.5 : 9.46
3dmark11 extreme : X6300
all game max out at 120 fps because of adaptive Vsync

It's because IT'S ON AN AMD CPU AND MOBO   that's why :P

Just updated by Nvidia, again, I am impressed with their support team, and the continued and timely feedback:
 
We believe this is the same chipset issue we found internally when we try to certify the ASUS CROSSHAIR V Formula and SABERTOOTH 990FX mobos. The mobos did not pass some of our tests and we reported the problem back to ASUS. We even provided tools to replicate the failure so ASUS can debug and fix. We suspect this is not isolated to ASUS, and is more a general chipset issue that ASUS and other mobo manufactures will have to work with AMD to resolve. All data suggest the problem is the same in this case but engineering is still running more tests to be absolutely sure. If this is indeed the same cause then we'll have to wait for ASUS/AMD to push an update system BIOS to fix. I'll know more once engineer finalize their analysis.

According to engineering notes ASUS did provide a beta test BIOS for the CROSSHAIR V Formula and that seems to have resolved the problem. Although the beta BIOS they provided for the SABERTOOTH 990FX did not completely fixed the problem. The issue with the SABERTOOTH 990FX is still under investigation by ASUS. The beta BIOS for the CROSSHAIR V Formula was never released, and we have no idea when or if ASUS intended to release this BIOS. The internal version of the CROSSHAIR V Formula BIOS we tested, and passed all our tests, was version 0061. This may be a internal version so not sure how this relate to public BIOS versions from ASUS.

I'd suggest you report the problem back to ASUS as well, and let them know that early analysis by NVIDIA engineering team suggest its the same chipset issue. The same issue we've already submitted to ASUS engineering team against the ASUS CROSSHAIR V Formula and SABERTOOTH 990FX mobo. I don't have all the details but based on what I can understand the failure is during data transfer from video memory to system memory. During this period, we saw operation time-out and when this happens, it usually cause the program crash or even hang the system. ASUS/AMD will need to investigate why this operation is timing out, at least for the SABERTOOTH 990FX . The same operation works fine with Intel chipset, so its a failure that is unique to these AMD chipsets. It looks like a fix already exist for the ASUS CROSSHAIR V Formula mobo, just need to wait for ASUS to push the update to public. I'd suggest you contact ASUS and see about the next BIOS update schedule and whether the next update will include the fix for this issue.
 

Good to see you got some answers.

ouf I did the good move to choose Intel Ivy bridge  + Z77 platform.

if you are getting 4-7 fps that means u installed the driver incorrectly

dangzero


if you are getting 4-7 fps that means u installed the driver incorrectly

You didn't read the thread did you. It was not a driver issue, it was a platform issue.

oh sorry

dangzero


if you are getting 4-7 fps that means u installed the driver incorrectly

wrong, the 990FX platform are the bug.