Multi GPU - does it work? thread

[AlienALX]

To find a game in the list press CTRL F. Then type in the name of the game you are looking for, as these are not added in alphabetical order.

I was thinking about doing this the other day, but was thinking on how I should format it.. Now I've had an idea that should work, keeping it nice and simple..

The object is to get a detailed and precise list of games and how they work in SLI/Crossfire. Obviously I will need help from you Nvidia guys but I will do what I can for AMD !

So the formatting is as follows -

Multi GPU type - CFX or SLI here.
Game - Game name here.
Does it work - answer here and brief explanation if you have any information.

Now I know AMD users can basically look through a list of profiles to see if Crossfire is listed which is nice, but this does not give you exact info on how well it works etc.

Any way, let's get the ball rolling.

Multi GPU type - Crossfire +SLI

Game - Crysis 3

Does it work - Perfectly on both

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Far Cry 4

Does it work - Yes it actually seems to work OK. However, Duna engine supposedly does not support Crossfire at all but I have found no information regarding when Crossfire was implemented. It seems to work fine, though.

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Fallout 4

Does it work - Yes. You need to be running Crimson 16.1.1 and version 1.2.37 of the game. Please read thread for instructions on how to do that.

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Just Cause 3

Does it work - No. According to the creators JC3 does not support multi GPUs of any type or sort. There is news that this game is going to be re-released in DX12 so we can only hope that SLI/CFX works by default using DX12's multi adapter.

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Mad Max

Does it work - Perfectly

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire + SLI

Game - Call of Duty : Black Ops III

Does it work - Yes but it's not perfect. Flickering textures are relatively common and I have had the game crawl into the single FPS a couple of times quite far into the game.You also can not use MSI Afterburner screen overlays as this will result in missing textures. SLI issues are -Almost Perfect, does suffer from some microstutter and the occasional frame drops mainly when recording at 4K with Shadowplay

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Middle Earth : Shadow of Mordor

Does it work - Perfectly

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire +SLI

Game - Tomb Raider

Does it work - Perfectly on both

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Dying Light

Does it work - Yes. However, like BLOPS III there are issues with flickering.Performance is good, though.

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Trine 2

Does it work - Perfectly.

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - The Witcher III

Does it work - Almost perfectly. Hairworks will sometimes misbehave.

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Dirt : Rally

Does it work - Perfectly

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Battlefield 4

Does it work - Perfectly

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire +SLI

Game - Metro 2033 Redux

Does it work - Perfectly on both

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire +SLI

Game - Metro Last Light Redux

Does it work - Perfectly on both

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire + SLI

Game - Sniper Elite 2 & 3

Does it work - Perfectly

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire + SLI

Game - Grand Theft Auto V (GTAV)

Does it work - Perfectly

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire + SLI

Game - Thief

Does it work - Perfectly

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire + SLI

Game - Crysis 2

Does it work - Perfectly

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Dead Island

Does it work - No

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Dead Island : Riptide

Does it work - Perfectly

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Borderlands

Does it work - Perfectly

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Borderlands 2

Does it work - Perfectly

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Borderlands : The Pre-sequel!

Does it work - Perfectly

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Wolfenstein : The New Order & Wolfenstein : The Old Blood

Does it work - No, does not work at all in either Crossfire or SLI and never will according to the developer.

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire +SLI

Game - Call of Duty : Ghosts

Does it work - Crossfire - Works very well, though some micro stutter was evident. SLI - Yes but suffers from extreme microstutter, frame drops and optimisation issues.

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Project : Cars

Does it work - Perfectly, though it has been reported that smoke and particle effects may cause slowdown.I did not notice anything of the sort.

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Multi GPU type - SLI

Game - Elite Dangerous

Does it work - Perfectly, does suffer from occasional frame drop but that is believed to be a game issue. In terms of Crossfire X according to posts on the Frontier Forums there is no Crossfire profile for it so Crossfire will not enable, however I cannot test or confirm this issue.

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Multi GPU type - SLI

Game - Titanfall

Does it work - SLI - Yes but suffers from weird lights popping up in the maps through walls and the occasional texture issue, game is also has a frame rate cap locked to the monitors refresh rate.

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Multi GPU type - SLI

Game - Call of Duty : Black Ops

Does it work - Perfectly

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire +SLI

Game - Dirt 3

Does it work - Perfectly on both

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Bioshock

Does it work - Perfectly

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire +SLI

Game - Bioshock Infinite

Does it work - Perfectly on both

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Multi GPU type - SLI

Game - Batman : Arkham City

Does it work - SLI - Yes but with what seemed like poor scaling, based of benchmark runs I did when testing GTX 780Ti SLI compared to GTX 980Ti SLI @4K

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Multi GPU type - SLI

Game - Call Of Duty : Advanced Warfare

Does it work - SLI - Yes but suffers from extreme microstutter, frame drops and optimisation issues and also some mouse input lag when SLI is enabled.

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Batman : Arkham Knight

Does it work - No. Does not work at all.

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Split/Second AKA Split/Second Velocity

Does it work - Very good though there was the occasional stutter. However, IIRC the game does this on a single GPU too.

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire +SLI

Game - Batman : Arkham Asylum

Does it work - Perfectly on both

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire +SLI

Game - Batman : Arkham City

Does it work - Perfectly on both

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Fallout 3

Does it work - Perfectly

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Alan Wake

Does it work - Perfectly

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - F3AR

Does it work - Perfectly

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - The Sims 4

Does it work - Perfectly

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Heroes of the storm

Does it work - Perfectly

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Star Wars : Battlefront

Does it work - Does not yet work at all. I have spoken to AMDMatt and he said that DICE were working on an update.

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Rise of the Tomb Raider

Does it work - It works and scales well but is rather buggy.

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Far Cry 3

Does it work - It works OK, though some stuttering was evident. Note, you need to change Vsync to 1 frame and disable the frame buffer to prevent further stuttering.

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - The Crew

Does it work - Yes but the game is locked to 30 FPS. I will be testing any way to circumvent this soon, watch this space

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Assassin's Creed : Rogue

Does it work - This does not work in Crossfire at all. Not even by enabling the Black Flag profile

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Splinter Cell : Blacklist

Does it work - Seems to work perfectly.

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Rayman Origins

Does it work - Seems to work perfectly.

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Far Cry 3 : Blood Dragon

Does it work - No. Does not work at all.

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Firewatch

Does it work - No. Does not work at all though I doubt it would be needed any way

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Xcom 2

Does it work - Right now the only way is to use the profile for the original Xcom. But it seems to work very well and gameplay was very smooth. Also note - right now the game does not support 4k so you need to add that manually. Please see thread for instructions.

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Multi GPU type - Crossfire

Game - Gears Of War

Does it work - Works perfectly.

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More to come.....

Changelog

Update 16/01/16 added Metro 2033 Redux and Metro Last Light Redux.
Update 16/01/16 added Sniper Elite 2 & 3
Update 16/01/16 added GTAV
Update 16/01/16 added dashes to make it easier on the eye.
Update 16/10/16 added Thief to the list. Also added Dead Island, Dead Island : Riptide and Crysis 2 Maximum Edition.And Borderlands (all). Added both Wolfenstein games.
Added Call of Duty : Ghosts. Also added - Project Cars.
Update 17/01/16 - Added several games and more SLI information posted by Damien C. Added Batman AK CFX.Added Split/Second.Added Bioshock.Added Batman AA.
Update 18/01/16 - Added Batman Arkham City.Added Fallout 3.
Update 19/10/16 - Added Alan Wake. Added F3AR, Heroes of the storm & The Sims 4
Update 04/02/16 - Added Rise of the Tomb Raider & updated Fallout 4 status accordingly.
Update 05/02/16 - Added Far Cry 3
Update 06/02/16 - Added The Crew (UBI)
Update 08/02/16 - Added Assassin's Creed : Rogue and Splinter Cell : Blacklist & Rayman Origins
Update 10/02/16 - Added Far Cry 3 : Blood Dragon.
Update 12/02/16 - Added Firewatch. Added Xcom 2.
Update 13/02/16 - Added Gears Of War (2007)

 

[Excalabur50]

Battlefield 4
Multi GPU Type Crossfire and SLI
Works perfectly fine

Mech Warrior Online
Multi GPU Type Crossfire and SLI
Crossfire not supported, SLI now works fine

 

[AlienALX]

Ah yes of course, BF4.. Added. Can't test Mech Warrior online..

Cheers dude !

 

[Excalabur50]

Ah yes of course, BF4.. Added. Can't test Mech Warrior online..

Cheers dude !

I currently play both and have played both with 7970's and 980's and 980ti's

 

[SPS]

This thread could be very useful, are you going to add posts to the OP?

 

[AlienALX]

This thread could be very useful, are you going to add posts to the OP?

Yes.

I've spent the past couple of weeks Googling for information and tbh dude I can't find frickin' anything.

It really is a nightmare trying to find out if games work and there is a crapload of conflicting information.

Far Cry 4 for example according to online info I found worked, then it didn't, then it did, then the engine doesn't support Crossfire at all... So I tried it on my pirate copy (because TBH I don't play it as I hate FC games) and it stuttered like a pig. Then I read that it worked, so I stumped up and paid for the game. Tried it out myself, works quite well. Definitely improved FPS with no stuttering or flickering.

So yeah, basically I am testing games as we speak (well, I'm watching Spurs atm lol but will get back to it later) and I will add what I have tested and my findings.

I will also add SLI as a +SLI for example if any one has any info on SLI.

One thing I have sort of learned though is that if a game is not AFR friendly then it's highly likely that it won't work in SLI either.

But yeah, this sort of thread does not exist on the internet. Every thread I have found asking for lists usually results in people saying "I can't be bothered".

 

[Wraith]

Nvidia
GTA V - perfectly,
Thief - Perfectly,
Rocket league - perfectly.

I'll do some more later.

 

[AlienALX]

Nvidia
GTA V - perfectly,
Thief - Perfectly,
Rocket league - perfectly.

I'll do some more later.

I've not tested GTAV yet (I didn't realise I had it installed) but will later. Apparently Crossfire has been a bit up and down on it but I will know more later

Ed. I have Thief installed too I think..

Ed2. Realised that the Thief I have is not legit (I've never played it to be fair) so I just bought it for £4.42 and will install and test later with GTAV !

 

[WYP]

This is why adding google docs or something for the forum would be mega handy.

Sniper Elite 3 - best CF and SLI game I have ever tried. Perfect

 

[Excalabur50]

Oh yes Sniper Elite 2 works great with AMD or Nvidia

 

[Wraith]

I've not tested GTAV yet (I didn't realise I had it installed) but will later. Apparently Crossfire has been a bit up and down on it but I will know more later

Ed. I have Thief installed too I think..

Ed2. Realised that the Thief I have is not legit (I've never played it to be fair) so I just bought it for £4.42 and will install and test later with GTAV !

Thief has an epic benchmark built in.

GTA V should be fine in crossfire, MrKambo used to use the 295x2 when we game, with great results.

 

[AlienALX]

Both added guys cheers !

Thief has an epic benchmark built in.

GTA V should be fine in crossfire, MrKambo used to use the 295x2 when we game, with great results.

Yeah but lately I have been hearing that game udpates have fudged it completely. As I say, much conflicting info on the net = head hurts...

Edit. Just attempted to launch GTAV and it wants to install a, wait for it, 2.5gb update. Yikes ! that's a fat old lump of data. As soon as it's finished I will give it a good testing. I clearly remember before my FPS were max 53 with averages around 38-40. If I start hitting the 60 FPS mark I will know it's working properly

Edit yet again. OK so fair play, Crossfire X is absolutely awesome in GTAV. Now absolutely jammed at 60 FPS.. Adding now

 

[JR23]

GTA V works well with Tri-SLI (780) but not so much with Quad-SLI (Titan X). I'm intrigued to try it with Quad-SLI 780Ti's when I get Lightning set up right to see if it was the game or just the board/memory causing issues for the Titan X's.

It scales phenomenally well between single, dual and triple SLI though.

JR

 

[Wraith]

Aye I have solid 60fps at 60Hz in GTA its glorious and with all that ultra grass.

 

[AlienALX]

Aye I have solid 60fps at 60Hz in GTA its glorious and with all that ultra grass.

Yup, hella sweet tbh.

GTA V works well with Tri-SLI (780) but not so much with Quad-SLI (Titan X). I'm intrigued to try it with Quad-SLI 780Ti's when I get Lightning set up right to see if it was the game or just the board/memory causing issues for the Titan X's.

It scales phenomenally well between single, dual and triple SLI though.

JR

From what I remember reading for each technology you need to fully support it. So SLI = its own support. Tri SLI = its own support and Quad SLI = its own support.

It came from an interview I read with the devs of Bioshock (so years ago). I'm not sure if anything has changed since tbh.

Many years ago (on these very forums) I bought a pair of 3870x2 for £40 each and for ***** and giggles I benched them with all of the (at the time) modern games. IIRC the only game that worked properly with Quadfire was BF:BC2 and hilariously the two old hoovers actually put my 5770 Crossfire to shame.

Sadly the same couldn't be said for pretty much all of the other games I tested. Batman (the first one) showed absolutely enormous gains but sadly the min FPS was dire and the micro stutter was just tragic. Obviously I know why that was happening now but at the time it was quite frustrating.

I've been busy at work today and have added quite a few extra games. All of the Borderlands and Thief etc. I'm starting to run out of space to download the games now so will have a clearout later and then install some more from my Steam list tomorrow and give them a try.

From what I have heard Star Wars (that new one) does not work with Crossfire or SLI yet and apparently (according to AMDMatt) is awaiting a code update to address this.

 

[Excalabur50]

Bio Shock Infinite
Crossfire and SLI
Both work Fine

 

[MrKambo]

I've had very consistent performance with Crossfire in GTA V, there was only one driver revision that broke it but that was 4/5 revs ago, but recently it has been scaling so well i was literally shocked

 

[Damien c]

These are what I have noticed with games that I have played or at least benchmarked after graphics cards upgrade.


Multi GPU type - SLI

Game - Elite Dangerous

Does it work - Perfectly, does suffer from occasional frame drop but that is believed to be a game issue. In terms of Crossfire X according to posts on the Frontier Forums there is no Crossfire profile for it so Crossfire will not enable, however I cannot test or confirm this issue.


Multi GPU type - SLI

Game - Call Of Duty Black Op's 3

Does it work - Almost Perfect, does suffer from some microstutter and the occasional frame drops mainly when recording at 4K with Shadowplay.


Multi GPU type - SLI

Game - Titanfall

Does it work - Yes but suffers from weird lights popping up in the maps through walls and the occasional texture issue, game is also has a frame rate cap locked to the monitors refresh rate.


Multi GPU type - SLI

Game - Call Of Duty Black Op's

Does it work - Perfectly


Multi GPU type - SLI

Game - Crysis 3

Does it work - Perfectly


Multi GPU type - SLI

Game - Metro 2033

Does it work - Perfectly, based of benchmark runs I did when testing GTX 780Ti SLI compared to GTX 980Ti SLI @4K


Multi GPU type - SLI

Game - Metro Last Light

Does it work - Perfectly, based of benchmark runs I did when testing GTX 780Ti SLI compared to GTX 980Ti SLI @4K


Multi GPU type - SLI

Game - Tomb Raider

Does it work - Perfectly, based of benchmark runs I did when testing GTX 780Ti SLI compared to GTX 980Ti SLI @4K


Multi GPU type - SLI

Game - Dirt 3

Does it work - Perfectly, based of benchmark runs I did when testing GTX 780Ti SLI compared to GTX 980Ti SLI @4K


Multi GPU type - SLI

Game - Bioshock Infinite

Does it work - Perfectly, based of benchmark runs I did when testing GTX 780Ti SLI compared to GTX 980Ti SLI @4K


Multi GPU type - SLI

Game - Batman Arkham City

Does it work - Yes but with what seemed like poor scaling, based of benchmark runs I did when testing GTX 780Ti SLI compared to GTX 980Ti SLI @4K



Multi GPU type - SLI

Game - Call Of Duty Ghosts

Does it work - Yes but suffers from extreme microstutter, frame drops and optimisation issues.


Multi GPU type - SLI

Game - Call Of Duty Advanced Warfare

Does it work - Yes but suffers from extreme microstutter, frame drops and optimisation issues and also some mouse input lag when SLI is enabled.

 

[AlienALX]

Wicked I will add those later (when I'm totally awake). I fear if I tried now I would just mess it right up

Coffeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[Excalabur50]

Oh and Starwars Battlefront was fine with SLI