3dmark11 SLI setup

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2010/12/07 17:15:35 (permalink)
Alot of people are still posting about the lack of support for sli with 3dm11 so here is somewhat of a fix until Nvidia releases new drivers.  I've tried a few drivers and the only ones that I can get SLI to work on are the 263.09 (GTX 580) and the 265.90 (Quadro) drivers.  Other variations of these drivers may work too.  You MUST force AFR 2 in the NVCP in order to get SLI to work with the 263.09 drivers.  These drivers are FM approved at the moment but not half as good as the 265.90 Quadro drivers.  The 265 drivers will work with sli without doing anything in the NVCP, however, for some reason the last test (combined test) will 'chug' along and ruin your score.  The test may even crash upon getting to the end.  The trick is to still force AFR 2 in the NVCP with the 265.90 driver and then the last test will open up and fly.  To use both the 263.09 and the 265.90 drivers with 400 series cards you will need to use a modded .inf file.  To do this you must extract the driver using winrar, 7zip, etc. to a folder on your machine.  Then place the modded .inf file into the Display.Driver folder after the driver is extracted.  Just copy over or backup your old .inf file if you want.  Remember to force AFR2 in the NVCP.  Happy Benching.
 
modded .inf file that will work with both 263 and 265 driver:
nv_disp.inf
 
265.90 Quadro driver:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-win7-winvista-64bit-265.90-driver.html

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    Re:3dmark11 SLI setup 2010/12/07 19:00:40 (permalink)
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     The Quadro drivers support SLI for the bench but for some reason mine always crashes at the Physics test with the quadro drivers.



    Lots of people are crashing on the physics test.  Common issue atm.  I dont know maybe its the bullet physics.

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    Re:3dmark11 SLI setup 2010/12/07 19:20:06 (permalink)
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    Alot of people are still posting about the lack of support for sli with 3dm11 so here is somewhat of a fix until Nvidia releases new drivers.  I've tried a few drivers and the only ones that I can get SLI to work on are the 263.09 (GTX 580) and the 265.90 (Quadro) drivers.  Other variations of these drivers may work too.  You MUST force AFR 2 in the NVCP in order to get SLI to work with the 263.09 drivers.  These drivers are FM approved at the moment but not half as good as the 265.90 Quadro drivers.  The 265 drivers will work with sli without doing anything in the NVCP, however, for some reason the last test (combined test) will 'chug' along and ruin your score.  The test may even crash upon getting to the end.  The trick is to still force AFR 2 in the NVCP with the 265.90 driver and then the last test will open up and fly.  To use both the 263.09 and the 265.90 drivers with 400 series cards you will need to use a modded .inf file.  To do this you must extract the driver using winrar, 7zip, etc. to a folder on your machine.  Then place the modded .inf file into the Display.Driver folder after the driver is extracted.  Just copy over or backup your old .inf file if you want.  Remember to force AFR2 in the NVCP.  Happy Benching.

    modded .inf file that will work with both 263 and 265 driver:
    nv_disp.inf

    265.90 Quadro driver:
    http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-win7-winvista-64bit-265.90-driver.html

    This didn't work for me. I'm already running the Quadro drivers.  The bench runs fine. I'm showing al three GPU's loaded. However the bench went to crap from 7K plus to less than 6K. Weird. This bench is all over the place.
     

     
     

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    Re:3dmark11 SLI setup 2010/12/07 19:27:36 (permalink)
    You guys are probably going to just have to wait for proper drivers to be released, then your numbers should even out. Nvidia dropped the ball on this one.

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    Re:3dmark11 SLI setup 2010/12/07 19:46:18 (permalink)
    scores for the 480's are higher than that of the 580s so far via 3dmark.com results. (due to drivers im sure)

                                           
                                                               
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    Re:3dmark11 SLI setup 2010/12/07 20:47:17 (permalink)
    You still need to set AFR2 in the NVCP even with the quadro drivers.  If you have 3 gpu's set 3 gpu AFR2.  Set 'prefer max performance' in the power setting.  If you're using a different .inf file try the one i've posted.  I made it.  Dont know if that would matter though.

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    Re:3dmark11 SLI setup 2010/12/08 06:49:11 (permalink)
    why play with bugged and corupt software for a bench that means nothing at this point IMO. software is baddly written and cause issues. no nvidia support properly and IMO no real scores can be produced as of right now. use vanatge for that...oh forgot futuremark screwed that to...lol corupt the vantage files upon install of 3dmark 11. look for fix in 400/500 series.

                                           
                                                               
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    Re:3dmark11 SLI setup 2010/12/08 16:42:06 (permalink)
    Well I fixed the Physics crashing,it was due to the system info scan in the help tab. I unchecked it and it runs everytime,but even if I set sli to AFR2 or 3 card AFR2 it still chops on the last test. Such crap,but I did gain 7fps in heaven bench with 265.90.....lol.

         
          
     
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    Re:3dmark11 SLI setup 2010/12/08 19:08:27 (permalink)
    d1esel, thanks for putting in the effort to figure this out.



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    Re:3dmark11 SLI setup 2010/12/08 20:22:18 (permalink)
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    d1esel, thanks for putting in the effort to figure this out.

    No problem.  Thanx for the BR.

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