Will starcraft 2 actually support SLI???

Will starcraft 2 actually support SLI???

The thing is...i did a test on the beta 'with' and 'without SLI' enabled and found NO DIFFERENCE IN FRAMERATE. I used fraps and found that the average FPS for both SLI and non SLI was 51.2 and 51.0 respectively. That doesnt make sense at all. Ive turned off vsync and even physically removed the other card and still get the same performance.

On another, unrelated note, im extremely dissapointed that starcraft 2 is not optimised for quad core. WTF??? They've spent 4 years developing this game and yet have been SLACK enough to tell us that they didnt optimise it for 4 cores..???!! Sure starcraft 2 still runs like butter on my powerful rig but you go into the map editor and put two big armies in a fight (i.e 200 vs 200 on one screen) and then try out the map...it will slow for sure even on my duel GTX 295s and i7 core. If it had been optimised for quad core im confident that the 'big army' vs 'big army' scenarios will not slow.

 

(A) That's interesting that you didn't even hit the full 60 FPS, either solo or SLI. Have you benchmarked with other games/programs?

(B) The problem is most game makers either don't see the need, as quad cores are still a rather small percentage of games (the Intel i# series is changing that, but slowly) or they simply don't know how.

 

i too found it very strange that starcraft 2' even slowed' on my rig....with such a setup i shouldnt even be hitting below the 60 mark. when i load up a multiplayer game or replay its starts off extremely fast....the fps reaches incredible numbers of up to 130fps. But as more and more units enter play it occasionally gets as low as 39 with some of the bigger battles. This is highly strange as from what i hearing people with notebooks are getting 60fps minimum????!! Ive got over 100 games installed at home with over 30 installed on STEAM and none of them run slower than 60fps average except maybe crysis and metro 2033. so there's definately something wrong here with the beta.... (note: i have latest drivers and everything already)

 

Wouldn't multithreading turned on solve that problem?

 

I don't see how multi-threading will help when actual extra physical cores don't.

@iamthewizard2
How much have you overclocked your CPU? StarCraft seems to be more dependent on CPU than GPU.

Tom's Hardware : StarCraft II Beta: Game Performance Analyzed : Benchmark Results: Ultra Quality

 

Logic would tell you to compare StarCraft 2 to other RTS. Not FPS which take relatively very little CPU.

Tell us your CPU and made we can give you a better answer.