[FnkDctr]

Some games are too new to have an SLI profile. Some games never had drivers put out to support SLI. However some people are having luck with nvidia control panel settings and forcing SLI. Anyone able to do so?
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Originally Posted by brettjv;13078216
You cannot force SLI to work by 'using the rendering'. So that may be where your confusion is coming from. You think you're forcing SLI on ... but you're not. There HAS to be an SLi profile for the game in order for SLi to work, and there's nothing you can change in the settings of NVCP to 'force' SLi.

I seen on another forum that its impossible.

 

[DuckieHo]

EVGA does release pre-emptive SLI profiles... you can ask them to include it in their releases.

 

[FnkDctr]

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Originally Posted by DuckieHo;13083856
EVGA does release pre-emptive SLI profiles... you can ask them to include it in their releases.

I need a mod to delete a mods post.. what does that have to do with my question?

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[DuckieHo]

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Originally Posted by FnkDctr;13083946
I need a mod to delete a mods post.. what does that have to do with my question?

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...because you can ask EVGA to create a SLI patch for games including new or old ones.

Wouldn't that resolve your underlying issue of getting SLI support for games that offically are not supported?

 

[FnkDctr]

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Originally Posted by FnkDctr;13083830
some people are having luck with nvidia control panel settings and forcing SLI. Anyone able to do so?

Im looking for SLI in non supported SLI games by actually changing the rendering type in your nvcp instead of downloading a driver..

 

[DuckieHo]

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Originally Posted by FnkDctr;13084021
Im looking for SLI in non supported SLI games by actually changing the rendering type in your nvcp instead of downloading a driver..

Isn't this the same thing?

EVGA release patches that allows SLI support in games that officially do not have SLI support.

http://www.evga.com/articles/00463/
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How does this enhancement work?

• New games/demos are released all the time, and often times they need an SLI profile in order for SLI to work, this is a quick fix that can get you gaming in SLI as quickly as possible.

 

[Hodgy1971]

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Originally Posted by FnkDctr;13084021
Im looking for SLI in non supported SLI games by actually changing the rendering type in your nvcp instead of downloading a driver..

Do you think that changing the rendering type is forcing SLI, which I may add is under the SLI rendering tab? This is not forcing SLI this changing the rendering method.

 

[FnkDctr]

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Originally Posted by Hodgy1971;13084189
Do you think that changing the rendering type is forcing SLI, which I may add is under the SLI rendering tab? This is not forcing SLI this changing the rendering method.

Well if set to auto doesnt support SLI and there are no profiles/drivers released, I wouldnt technically call it forcing. But in a way you are. You are forcing the cards to alternate the date regardless of its known, programmed method. Which is then giving you the performance of 2 cards instead of one.

 

[Defoler]

I like the suggestion to ask EVGA to put a profile to an old game.
Yeah, that will happen.

Back on topic, to the OP:
You can read here on how to add a game to a SLI profile and try to "force" SLI. You can add any game to a profile, its not only for crysis 2.
Note that games which are completely not multi GPU compatible, might not work with SLI no matter what.
Adding a not-supported game to a profile might enable SLI, but there is other 100% way to force SLI on a game.

 

[DuckieHo]

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Originally Posted by Defoler;13084411
I like the suggestion to ask EVGA to put a profile to an old game.
Yeah, that will happen.

Why not? You can ask Jacob in their forums and see if he do it for you.

It isn't that much work... but like you said, some older games simply cannoy easily.

 

[Kvjavs]

You'll never find out unless you ask.

Give it a shot. The worst that can happen is he'll say "no".

 

[Defoler]

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Originally Posted by DuckieHo;13084915
Why not? You can ask Jacob in their forums and see if he do it for you.

It isn't that much work... but like you said, some older games simply cannoy easily.

Yeah I know you can ask.
But the chance that they will put an "official" patch for it, plus the need to reinstall it because its not going to end up into the drivers, well... its not something I'm going to see happen.

Plus, they will have to test that the SLI patch actually works, which I'm not going to see happen as well for old games.

If you add a game to a profile, it sticks between drivers install unless you do a clean install.
The crysis2 evga patch, would not persist.

 

[FnkDctr]

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Originally Posted by Defoler;13085243
Yeah I know you can ask.
But the chance that they will put an "official" patch for it, plus the need to reinstall it because its not going to end up into the drivers, well... its not something I'm going to see happen.

Plus, they will have to test that the SLI patch actually works, which I'm not going to see happen as well for old games.

If you add a game to a profile, it sticks between drivers install unless you do a clean install.
The crysis2 evga patch, would not persist.

Originally Posted by brettjv
You cannot force SLI to work by 'using the rendering'. So that may be where your confusion is coming from. You think you're forcing SLI on ... but you're not. There HAS to be an SLi profile for the game in order for SLi to work, and there's nothing you can change in the settings of NVCP to 'force' SLi.

Brett brett brett.. how could you be MORE WRONG!

 

[Defoler]

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Originally Posted by FnkDctr;13089662
Originally Posted by brettjv
You cannot force SLI to work by 'using the rendering'. So that may be where your confusion is coming from. You think you're forcing SLI on ... but you're not. There HAS to be an SLi profile for the game in order for SLi to work, and there's nothing you can change in the settings of NVCP to 'force' SLi.

Brett brett brett.. how could you be MORE WRONG!

I'm not really sure what you are using my post for against brett, as I talked about the patch from evga.

But just saying, that brettjv is right.

The game has to have a SLI profile in the drivers in order to work.
You can "trick" the drivers and either rename the .exe file or add the file to an already exist profile, but even if you have a sli profile from the game, the game still has to be coded to support SLI (of CFX). And that you can not change.

You can not use a "brute force" method to make SLI to work in a game even using the profiles, if the game is just not coded to use SLI.

Old games are not possible to "force sli" on, as their engine and the way they were coded with old functions, so its just not possible.
If they are using a single image rendering functions, you can not force them to use the new functions of AR or AR2. Its completely in the hands of the game.

The idea of adding a game or using a patch, is to say "ok, this game is now crysis, which support sli, so the game should support sli as well", but if the game doesn't, no matter what, you can not force it.
Even with the method I posted or using evga patches.

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For some reason I think I'm repeating myself.
To make a long story short:
As I stated in an earlier post here, you can add a game which support SLI to a profile if there is none yet, but you can not force a game which doesn't support SLI (and hence won't have a profile) to work in SLI, as its code related and not drivers/profiles related.

 

[Defoler]

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So older games that dont support SLI, can be tricked into performing in SLI. why would you run in circles saying. SLI profile, drivers, SLI profile, drivers, the game, SLI profile, drivers, the game.

You couldn't be more wrong.

As a person with zero experience, telling people with a lot more experience in this than you, that they are wrong, its like a kid of 7 telling off his father how to make it with his mother in the bed-room.
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I swear you are brett on a second account

Haha thanks

Thats actually a nice complement.
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The nvidia control panel is there for a reason. Its really not my fault you dont know how to use it or what it does. Stop being a parrot

Nvidia control panel can not force SLI.
If you actually bothered reading all those "7 MILLION" results from google, 99% of them say that you might be able to, 0.5% will say nonsense (like you) and 0.5% will say that its possible to some degree.

Forcing SLI is not a 100% assured way.
Games with zero programing support, will never support SLI no matter how much you "force" it. You can get it to AFR, but it won't increase performance or suddenly run in SLI.

One of the easy examples, is WoW.
The game never supported SLI/CFX until middle of TBC expansion, where they made some changes to the game engine to support it. Up until than, no matter how many GPUs you have, it would always give the same performance.

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[Norlig]

Change the name of the .exe file of the game you want a SLI profile for, to HAWX2.exe