Enabling Sli Mode; Viewing Load Balancing; Figure 7.36 Message "Sli Capable System - Nvidia VCQFX550PCIEPB - Quadro FX 550 User Manual

Enabling SLI Mode

1 After logging back into Windows, you should see the message "SLI capable
system" in the bottom right corner of the screen as shown in
Figure 7.36
2 Click anywhere on the message.
If the message disappears, continue with the following steps.
3 Right click the desktop and click Properties > Settings >Advanced, then click the
GeForce product tab.
4 Click the SLI multi-GPU menu item to open the SLI multi-GPU page.
5 Select the Enable SLI multi-GPU check box to check it and click Apply
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Your system can now operate in full SLI-frame rendering mode.

Viewing Load Balancing

To view the relative amount of work, or load balancing, performed by each GPU in
DirectX and OpenGL applications, select the Show GPU load balancing check box
on the NVIDIA SLI Multi-GPU page
This option enables an SLI status bar that reflects how the GPUs are working together
to render DirectX and OpenGL full-screen applications; see
NVIDIA Corporation
Message "SLI capable system"
Configuring Key ForceWare Graphics Driver Features
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