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    Question - Multiple drives and SLI/Nvidia Control Panel

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Azeroth, Dec 16, 2011.

  1. Azeroth

    Azeroth Notebook Consultant

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    Hi,

    I tried to find the answer to this but can't seem to. First system (x7200) with SLI. Boot drive is an SSD, other drives are HDD. I use Steam for gaming. Steam is installed on the HDDs, as are the games. Questions are:

    1. Will the sli profiles in nvidia control panel (which seems to point to the c drive, the ssd) work if I execute the game from the HDD (or d drive). Or do I have to manually add the exe to nvidia so it points to the exe on the d drive?

    Basically I want to make sure sli is working and wasn't sure how it did with multiple drives.

    Thanks
     
    Azeroth, Dec 16, 2011
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  2. r0gue3

    r0gue3 Notebook Geek

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    Windows doesn't care where you install a program, so neither does nVidia's program.

    I also have a very similar setup to you (Steam is installed on D drive along with all the Steam games). SLI is working very well. The only thing I ever had to do to enable SLI was to actually set it up in the nVidia control panel. Been working fine ever since. :)
     
    r0gue3, Dec 16, 2011
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  3. Anthony@MALIBAL

    Anthony@MALIBAL Company Representative

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    Nope, you should be fine with installing games to your secondary drive. Windows takes care of all the registry stuff, so it doesn't matter which drive the files get installed to.
     
    Anthony@MALIBAL, Dec 17, 2011
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  4. Kingpinzero

    Kingpinzero ROUND ONE,FIGHT! You Win!

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    As others said, the nvidia driver will load the appropriate profile once you load the game, doesn't matter where it's installed.
     
    Kingpinzero, Dec 17, 2011
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