FALCON BMS 4.33 U3 / SLI

[-Markus-]

Hello everybody,

This is my PC configuration :

Motherboard : ASUS Maximus VIII EXTREME
Proc : i7-6700K CPU / 4.00GHz
Ram : 64 Go
OS : Windows 10 pro / V1607 / 14393.693 / 64bits
GC : 2x GeForce GTX TITANx SLI
1x GeForce GTX 980 Ti

SCREENS : 3x Idek Iiyama PLX2783HSU Surround (5760 x 1080 - 60Hz)
This screens are connected on the first GeForce GTX TITANx and my second GeForce GTX TITANx is on SLI.

3 other screens are connected to my Geforce GTX 980 Ti on Display port, and one to HDMI port.
This four other screens are for exported my 2 MFD, my RWR and my DED.

This is my problem :
I play games that take the process SLI, so, I don’t want to unplug my SLI bridge between my two graphic cards (GeForce TITANx), before switch on my computer.
Otherwise, the NVIDIA drivers 378.66 win10-64bit do not work well between “Disable SLI / Enable SLI”. Indeed, when I disable the SLI, the SLI remains active, and curious thing, when I unplug my SLI bridge before to switch on my computer (so my two GeForce TITANx are no longer connected in SLI cause there’s no SLI bridge between them), I can see in the control panel of the Nvidia drivers that SLI is still active :eek:.
So I let my SLI bridge.

After, I plug my RWR, left and right MFD and DED on my other screens (3 x Display port / 1 x HDMI port) on my Geforce 980 Ti.
I export this four screens with “Cockpit Display Extraction”, but when I launch Falcon, this screens remains white.
Then, when I move one of this screens on an other sreen witch is connected on my GeForce TITANx SLI, I have the image of my extraction.

So, I deduce Falcon BMS works under SLI configuration, but does not recognize another graphics card in mode SLI.
But, the screen outputs slots of the GeForce Titan x are 3 Display ports, 1 HDMI and 1 DL-DVI. So, I use the 3 Display ports for my 3 screens in surround (5760 x 1080 -60Hz), and the DVI for a fourth screen that serves as control (teamspeak / others…). I have nothing on the DVI output.
It’s for this reason that I use an other graphics card (GeForce 980 Ti), to export RWR, MFD L&R, and DED. I need others ouputs slots, and the only solution is to install an other graphics card.

The only hardware architecture that works is when I unplug my second graphics card GeForce TITAN x. On this configuration, I don’t have SLI, and it’s a pity not to take advantage of 2 GeForce Titan x in SLI mode.

Am I wrong or wright to think that ? Or perhaps I don’t use the right parameters.

Is there anything to do ?
Did anyone encounter the same problem as me ?
How did he resolve it ?

I tried a lot of solutions between Nvidia drivers (and installation of old drivers), “falcon bms.cfg”, nvidia profile inspector software, plug and unplug graphics cards on other slots on my motherboard, plug and unplug SLI bridge, etc… . Nothing works.

Thanks for your answers.

@+Markus

[-Markus-]

This is my 3 graphics cards. You can see I have SLI bridge between my two Geforce Titan x, and my GeForce 980 Ti MSI is alone on a PCI graphic card slot.

Here’s what I get without SLI, but I must reinstall the Nvidia drivers all the time before to fly, cause the “Disable SLI” option on panel configuration Nvidia doesn’t work properly.

This is my problem on SLI bridge :

Thank you for your interest.

@+Markus

[TxMtb]

I run SLI 970’s with 3 monitors, also use the integrated GPU to extract gauges to an additional monitor.
Using YAME64 to extract all my gauges, you might want to check that out to see if it helps.
One thing I stumbled across, if you are forcing SLI AFR2 the RWR and LFMD wouldn’t display properly, only mode that made it work was to force SFR in Nvidia Inspector.
Best of luck.

[Guest]

Sorry, but I don’t understand the question….

[Stubbies2003]

The OP is a bit confusing to be sure. Just a few things:

1.) BMS doesn’t take advantage of SLI so there is no taking advantage of SLI for BMS. I have a pair of Titan X (Maxwell not Pascal) and fly this way all the time with BMS.

2.) The main difference between you and I is you are failing to see that you can use another extraction program like MFDE and another computer attached to your network to display the extracted displays which is exactly what I do. If you are using BMS built in extraction you might want to take a look at one of the other extraction programs as they give you options like server/client which you do not have with BMS itself and tend to give you better FPS than the built in extraction.

My guess is the problem lies in how you have the Windows displays set up. Unless Windows 10 is just rather horrid at dealing with multiple video cards and multiple display setups. I run Windows 7 and only the SLI video cards so I cannot duplicate or speak to the problem directly.

[Guest]

Stubbies, do you use Helios on your setup?

[Stubbies2003]

@-Ice:

Stubbies, do you use Helios on your setup?

Nope no Helios here. Just BMS and MFDE.

[-Markus-]

Hello,

Thanks for your answers.
Stubbies, I will follow your advices, and all.
Yes, I’m on Windows 10. I must do a new installation with W7, and it’s not the first time what I ear it’s more better to use W7 than W10.
So, according to you :

1/W7 is recommended that w10
2/Use MFD Extractor
3/Nvidia Inspector force SFR

Ok, I try with this advices.
It will take me time to re-install everything, but I think it’s very interesting to have any answers around experience about Falcon / SLI / Surround / Export Display / OS.

@+Markus

[Planehazza]

2 titan x and 980ti?! Nice. It’s so overkill, that I think you should sell me that 980ti ha.

[Arty]

@Planehazza:

2 titan x and 980ti?! Nice. It’s so overkill, that I think you should sell me that 980ti ha.

Get in line mister… he owes me a 980ti gift first.

:rofl:

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[Planehazza]

@Arty:

Get in line mister… he owes me a 980ti gift first.

:rofl:

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I already have one, I’m just being greedy

[-Markus-]

I’m sorry !
But I have nothing to sell :rolleyes:

@+Markus

[Arty]

So my gift its on its way? [emoji38]

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[-Markus-]

@Arty:

So my gift its on its way? [emoji38]

I don’t think too

Yes, it’s true, it’s an expensive configuration, but it’s my only passion, so when I fly, I don’t want to be limited :rolleyes:
And I know with this configuration, I’m quiet for a long moment… .

@+Markus

[Stubbies2003]

@-=Markus=-:

Hello,

Thanks for your answers.
Stubbies, I will follow your advices, and all.
Yes, I’m on Windows 10. I must do a new installation with W7, and it’s not the first time what I ear it’s more better to use W7 than W10.
So, according to you :

1/W7 is recommended that w10

No that I did not say. Plenty of people fly BMS on Win 10 just fine. Do those that run Win 10 also run multi screen? I’m sure some do. I had to put the caveat out there that I do not run Win 10 on my main system but Win 7 so my suggestions are based on that. My running of Win 7 versus Win 10 has nothing at all to do with BMS.

@-=Markus=-:

2/Use MFD Extractor

That is an option yes but not the only one. There are other extractors as well. I just happen to use MFDE.

@-=Markus=-:

3/Nvidia Inspector force SFR

I haven’t had to use NVidia Inspector since the good old days of 306.97. I’m quite sure everyone here that uses NVidia GPUs knows exactly what 306.97 was about. NVidia got their act together awhile ago for the driver so I have only used the NVidia Control Panel for quite some time now to configure the driver for BMS usage.

[Stubbies2003]

@Planehazza:

2 titan x and 980ti?! Nice. It’s so overkill, that I think you should sell me that 980ti ha.

I didn’t buy my Titans based on any perceived need in BMS but for other gaming I do which will tax video cards heavily.

[Icarus]

I’m wondering why OP bought a 980ti to use as an input device, because that is all it is capable of doing on his rig???