would be inclined to agree partly.
SLI is few and far in between for games, especially Hawken. However, I am genuinely interested given the fact that you have stated that you have had no problems with SLI Hawken yet so many other people have. Would it be possible for you to make a video (or screen cap) your settings and maybe even a video of gameplay (could just be against bots, players, it doesn't matter) with SLI enabled? Could put to rest the disputes more concretely.
Ok, I'll bite the hook if you think it will prove anything.
I really don't feel like investing the amount of time involved (which in all reality isn't that much, but its more than I am willing to waste) in making a video at this moment. In all honestly I feel nobody is going to take the images I am willing to provide seriously, and they will just brush them off as faked and photoshopped from some desperate person to prove a point on the internet, thats really why I provided information directly from Nvidia and not a source like wikipedia or some other 3rd party site.
I've already stated that I am willing to look at at least 2 users Nvidia control panel settings (should they ever provide them, and I'm not holding my breath), and compare them with my settings to see if I can spot any reasons why something is not working as advertised, I'll open up that offer to anyone with any Nvidia hardware, as I don't have any experience with ATI hardware anymore. I moved ATI to the backburner ever since I bought my first Nvidia powered video card, a Diamond Riva TNT2, and that card changed my video game life.
And for those of you wondering how I got the overlays I did, one is your standard GPU accessory application, Precision X, or Afterburner, or whatever. thats the graphical histogram overlay on the right showing GPU1 and GPU2 utilization, the overlay on the upper left and left side that states PhsyX, SLI and the vertical GPU utilization bar (in GREEN) is DIRECTLY FROM THE NVIDIA DRIVERS, enabled in the Nvidia control panel. Pretty much your SLI proof is 100% right there because if the drivers don't detect SLI, you don't get that SLI bar graph, or the SLI indication AT ALL. For those of you that have no experience with the vertical GPU utilization bar that the Nvidia drivers provide, maybe this will help.
How I obtained the data shown. Cleared the history of the graphical display, and started Hawken, I let the movies play in their entirety and then let the game sit in the garage for a little bit, one is longer than the other while sitting in the garage cause something came up and I had to take care of it, then I opened an offline bot match, and screen capped the image.
So, heres some pretty images to look at, ENJOY:
SLI DISABLED
Notice GPU1 utilization is a non zero value, and GPU2 utilization is ZERO. Also, I enabled the physx display just for funzies, since it was right next to the SLI indicator option.
SLI ENABLED
Notice BOTH GPU1 AND GPU2 utilization are non zero values.
I don't know how I can prove Hawken using more than one GPU any better than that.
Edited by SS396, 07 December 2016 - 03:10 PM.