How to Enable SLI Support for 3DMark11

2011/01/05 JeGX

3DMark11, GTX 460 SLI is ok
3DMark11 and GTX 460 in SLI

Oddly there is still no 3DMark11 profile in latest versions of NVIDIA drivers (like in the very last R266.35). And manual SLI tweaking in NVIDIA Control Panel changes nothing. So how to enable SLI with 3DMark11?

Simply by using a tiny tool developped by NVIDIA and called GeForce 3D Settings Profile Manager. You can download it here: Manage your SLI Profiles with NVIDIA GeForce SLI Profile Tool.

1 – Start Geforce_SLI_Profile_Tool.exe

2 – Export the profiles file

GeForce 3D Settings Profile Manager - Export SLI profile

3 – Add this block in the profiles file:

Profile "3DMark11"
  ShowOn GeForce
  ProfileType Application
  Executable "3dmark11.exe"
  Executable "3dmark11cmd.exe"
  Executable "3dmark11demo.exe"
  Executable "3dmark11workload1.exe"
  Executable "3dmark11workload2.exe"
  Setting ID_0x00a06946 = 0x084000f5
  Setting ID_0x1033cec1 = 0x00000003
  Setting ID_0x1033cec2 = 0x00000002
  Setting ID_0x1033dcd2 = 0x00000004
  Setting ID_0x1033dcd3 = 0x00000004
  Setting ID_0x1095def8 = 0x02c00005
  Setting ID_0x209746c1 = 0x04280001
  Setting ID_0x20ebd7b8 = 0x00000020
EndProfile

GeForce 3D Settings Profile Manager - SLI profile file

4 – Import the profiles file

GeForce 3D Settings Profile Manager - Import SLI profile

5 – Enable the SLI Visual Indicator (NVIDIA Control Panel / 3D Settings)

6 – Start 3DMark11.

SLI now works fine with my pair of MSI N460GT Cyclone as
you can see it on the following picture:

3DMark11, GTX 460 SLI is ok

And here are the scores:
GTX 460 SLI:
– X1596
– P4992
– E8072

GTX 460 single GPU:
– X947
– P3251
– E5270

More 3DMark11 scores are available here: [Tested] 3DMARK11 DX11 Battle: GTX 580 vs GTX 480 vs HD 6870 vs HD 5870 vs GTX 460.

Thanks to Geeks3D’s readers for their constructive comments 😉

8 thoughts on “How to Enable SLI Support for 3DMark11”

Psolord 2011/01/05 at 11:05

Jego, don’t forget to mention that the configuration file must be changed according to the number of gpus used on the system or set this up in the advanced menu, by changing the gpu number from automatic to the number of gpus used. The latter option only works for paid users and is much easier tbh.

Otherwise the physics tests will run like donkey and will not give a good score.

Zibri 2011/01/05 at 18:12

Please, next time say “Thanks to Zibri” 🙂

Zibri 2011/01/05 at 18:14

Oh and by the way that block is wrong.

USE THIS:

Profile “3DMark11”
ShowOn GeForce
ProfileType Application
Executable “3dmark11.exe”
Executable “3dmark11cmd.exe”
Executable “3dmark11demo.exe”
Executable “3dmark11workload1.exe”
Executable “3dmark11workload2.exe”
Setting ID_0x00a06946 = 0x000000f5
Setting ID_0x1033cec1 = 0x00000003
Setting ID_0x1033cec2 = 0x00000002
Setting ID_0x1033dcd2 = 0x00000004
Setting ID_0x1033dcd3 = 0x00000004
Setting ID_0x1095def8 = 0x02400005
Setting ID_0x10ecdb82 = 0x00000001
EndProfile