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3DMark 11 Known issue with Nvidia multi-GPUs configurations

ottoyu34
Level 9

‎01-02-2011 01:00 AM - last edited on ‎03-05-2024 08:30 PM by Community Admin

A known issue that happens in configurations with more than one NVIDIA GPU. If you have both 3Dmark Vantage and 3Dmark 11 installed. The SystemInfo software installed with 3dmark11 will overwrite/update and no longer supports 3DmarkVantage. It likely would make 3DmarkVantage to have graphics corruption in game tests or just fails at starting.

So, consider this is a warning if you are running SLI and plan to use both 3dm11 and 3dmVantage.

One of the many threads, regarding this issue:
http://futuremark.yougamers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=139005


Solutions:
There are a few solutions out there, but I rather not to use system restore or any bypass method. I choose to use 3dmVantage for the meantime until this is fixed.
So this is how I restore my 3DmVantage back to normal:

1) Uninstall both 3dm11 and 3dmVantage from Control Panel.
2) Uninstall Futuremark SystemInfo from Control Panel.
3) Reboot computer.
4) Install 3dmVantage and volia, no more Corrupted benchmark runs!
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V2-V3
Level 8

‎01-02-2011 02:47 AM

Thanks for the update, this saved me some unnecessary frustrations 🙂

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ottoyu34
Level 9

‎01-02-2011 02:24 PM

I wasted good 2-3 hours reinstalling 3dmarkvantage twice and reinstalling my Nvidia drivers. And I end up searching on google, it came up as a common issue with SLI systems.

My ultimate goal of this thread is to warning anyone that is not aware of it yet. Hope it helps.

For those are in the same situation and wants to go back to 3DmVantage for now. I got my solve on the first post.
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The_Nemesis
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‎01-02-2011 07:46 PM

There is a work around that will allow vantage work properly after 3DMark 11 is intalled. It even gives add boost to 3DMark 11 score as it causes SLI to scale properly since this too is broken in 3DMark 11. I've tried it but I'm sure it will be fixed in next update. PM me if ya want details.
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ottoyu34
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In response to The_Nemesis

‎01-04-2011 09:30 AM

The Nemesis wrote:
There is a work around that will allow vantage work properly after 3DMark 11 is intalled. It even gives add boost to 3DMark 11 score as it causes SLI to scale properly since this too is broken in 3DMark 11. I've tried it but I'm sure it will be fixed in next update. PM me if ya want details.


Yea, I looked at that before. But atm I rather have it restore back to previous state. I also can't stand the 1:1 letterbox benchmark runs they introducted for v1.0.1 update.
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The_Nemesis
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In response to ottoyu34

‎01-04-2011 10:45 AM

ottoyu34 wrote:
I also can't stand the 1:1 letterbox benchmark runs they introducted for v1.0.1 update.


Me either, I've stopped running 3Mark 11 SLI all together until it's fixed. Very disappointing:(
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