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SLI users, does anyone else have edge ghosting and slight flicker?

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2016/08/23 10:36:10 (permalink)
The way this manifests itself is usually when you move the camera around your character or make sharp turns in a racing game. 
Examples:
Witcher 3: Park geralt somewhere in the woods and just rotate the camera and watch what the trees are doing, the edges of the leaves turn brown.  All other objects do the same thing, there's basically a ghosting edge around all sharp edged objects like buildings etc.
 
Firewatch:  Same basic idea, as you turn anything with a sharp edge now has a ghost like edge to it that goes away as soon as the motion stops
 
Project Cars: During the race, if you use the assisted line which is represented by green, yellow, and red arrows, everytime you take a sharp turn the left of said arrows turns brown.
 
Star Wars Battlefront:  Pretty much the same as Witcher 3 and Firewatch.
 
All games have a very slight flicker, almost like what you get when you watch a movie in 3d for the first time.  it's not terribly noticeable, you have to look for it, but it's there.
It just feels like the two cards aren't totally synched and that there is a tiny delay which is shows up when there's a lot of pixels to be moved such as panning around or doing tight turns in a racing game.  This is my first time using SLI, so if this is considered "normal" then I guess I will have to live with it.
 
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    Re: SLI users, does anyone else have edge ghosting and slight flicker? 2016/08/23 10:53:51 (permalink)
    I have not noticed that in my 1080 sli setup. Did you do a clean install of the drivers w ddu?

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    Re: SLI users, does anyone else have edge ghosting and slight flicker? 2016/08/23 11:51:42 (permalink)
    I think you're seeing the refresh rate of your monitor.

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    Re: SLI users, does anyone else have edge ghosting and slight flicker? 2016/08/23 11:57:23 (permalink)
    Yes I initially did a DDU complete clean install of the lastest drivers, but I have since gone back because those drivers messed with Tomb Raider causing freezes in the main menu and in the game.
     
    My monitor is set to 165 Hz and I have tried it with V sync on and off.  Gsync is of course enabled.

     
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    Re: SLI users, does anyone else have edge ghosting and slight flicker? 2016/08/23 12:07:45 (permalink)
    Not seeing the problem here on my maxwell titan x's.
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    Re: SLI users, does anyone else have edge ghosting and slight flicker? 2016/08/23 12:08:17 (permalink)
    If you stand there and rotate a full circle every second then you're seeing 360 degrees of field of view change per second. Even with a 144hz framerate, and a graphics card setup that can actually peg that, you're still going to see 2.5 degrees per second of change between frames. It's not going to be perfectly smooth. The effect is obviously more pronounced for people with 60 hz monitors. Even with a 144hz refresh, and a SLI setup capable of 144 fps, you're still going to have issues having to do with how fast your monitor is capable of changing the color of each pixel. With 144 hz that's 6.9ms per frame. Is your monitor capable of changing the color of a pixel from whatever it was last frame to whatever it needs to be in the new frame every 6.9 milliseconds? If not, you'll see some blur.

    Now, if you're telling me that it's actually worse now with SLI than it was with only one card, then we may be talking about something else here, but if you were expecting to be able to whirl around in circles in a game and have everything be crystal clear, then that's not likely, nor reasonable.

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    Re: SLI users, does anyone else have edge ghosting and slight flicker? 2016/08/23 13:14:20 (permalink)
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    Yes I initially did a DDU complete clean install of the lastest drivers, but I have since gone back because those drivers messed with Tomb Raider causing freezes in the main menu and in the game.
     
    My monitor is set to 165 Hz and I have tried it with V sync on and off.  Gsync is of course enabled.


    Same thing happens to me using the latest driver. I went back to the previous driver and no issues with ROTTR. It seems to be a DX12 SLI issue with the latest driver as both ROTTR and Timespy benchmark runs with no issues with one gpu but once you go sli, both of them freeze. So annoying man. But anyway, no sli issues with 368.81. 
     
    Edit: Just want to mention that I deleted both MSI AB and EVGA Precision OC, did a clean install using DDU, etc.
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    Re: SLI users, does anyone else have edge ghosting and slight flicker? 2016/08/23 13:26:55 (permalink)
    I only noticed the edge ghosting after adding the second card. However, currently, even if I disable Sli I notice the same issue, maybe I should pull the bridge and power plugs to see if it still does it then. Will report back after I try that tonight.

     
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