NFS Underground 2 low FPS w/ GTX 295 SLI

[guitarslingerchris]

Like the title says, I'm running a pretty swell setup, but I just installed NFS Underground 2 to play through it again and I get pretty horrible framerates even at 1280x1024 or 1600x1200. I used uniws.exe to patch the game to 2560x1600 and I get the same horrible framerates, along the lines of 10-15fps.

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? I'm running Vista x64 with the latest drivers.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

what frame rate do you get when you dont use the patch?

also im not totally sure if the game supports multi gpu..

 

[chaikovski2002]

The game doesnt work with SLI, set your profile to use single card and your fps will go to 120, its the same with MW, Carbon, and Prostreet. I dont know why its under nvidia SLI supported games list, it just doesnt work, I tried it with AFR and SFR and it has problems running multigpu set up ~ 20 fps. So I set it to max eye candy in the game and AA: 8x(Enhance) in CP, SLI: Single, NegLOD: Clamp, which gives the best visuals, and i get 120fps with my evga gtx 285ssc. Sucks you have to disable SLI, but thats what works for me I reinstalled some NFS games yesterday.

Edit: also alt tab out of the game and set your cpu affinity to one core and disable the rest or the game will crash randomly under vista 64

 

[guitarslingerchris]

Thanks for the heads up, I'll give it a try. Anyone have some ideas how to get a 360 controller to work with the original NFS Underground?

 

[douglatins]

Old game, probably no SLI profiles

 

[Zero82z]

Anyone have some ideas how to get a 360 controller to work with the original NFS Underground?

You could use Xpadder to map the controller buttons.

 

[guitarslingerchris]

You could use Xpadder to map the controller buttons.

I didn't even think of using something like that, thanks!