One Videocard in Borderlands despite showing SLI

So I am playing borderlands. Have latest driver and win7. Only one side is hot, so i assume only one videocard. Shows SLI enabled. Any ideas?

 

Your checking if your SLI is enabled by checking the heat with your hand ? Thats a first.... Fire up HWMonitor and gpuz and check the actual temps and the load on the cards.

 

Yes. this games seems to not be optimized for SLI. Because on cards is running about 30c more than the other with my machine.

 

when i play sacred2, youfeel 2 hot fans blowing out of the back of the laptop. Yes, it is a good way to know if it is working right. Sacred 2 did the same thing with the original video drivers for the m17x, but was fixed with the next update of vid drivers. I suspect this is a driver issue

 

Its better to use a more accurate way like the one i described above, with that you should know for sure.

 

Try this: http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia_multigpu_SLI_profile_update_v3.html

 

Did you also turn on the SLI visual indicator? If it isn't showing, the profile for Borderlands doesn't support SLI. If it is, it's likely purely optimized.

The SLI update no92stallion mentioned should do the trick (I can't check myself, no Borderlands here).

On a side note, if any game doesn't have SLI enabled via driver profile, you can use nHancer to create/edit a profile for your game and force it to run in SLI. You can also force Anti-Aliasing and adjust individual settings for each game with this utility.

 

thanks. That did it. +1 rep!

 

now I have hot air blowing out both vid card slors

 

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