Afterburner issue with SLI

Quantum-192 · 5 Sep 2016 at 12:09

Hopefully someone can help with this one?

I have two 980ti in SLI sitting on a Asus z170 Sabertooth MB and I'm using MSI Afterburner for the GPU overclocks with the included Riva Tuner OSD in games.

Trouble is Afterburner seems to have identified my GPU's the wrong way around.

In Witcher 3 for example the OSD is showing GPU 1 as 89% utilisation and GPU 2 as 99% which appears to be directly opposite to what should happen with two card SLI setups?

Is there a way to get this corrected within Afterburner or do I need to do a full delete and re-install?

Smffy · 5 Sep 2016 at 14:17

Which GPUs have you got? Are they linked so the OC etc is applied exactly the same on both?

Quantum-192 · 5 Sep 2016 at 14:27

Both are EVGA 980ti SC+

Both are linked in Afterburner etc and both show the 1499 overclocks on the OSD correctly it's just that GPU1 is displaying 89% utilisation and GPU2 is showing 99% so they are the wrong way around.

VKleita · 5 Sep 2016 at 15:57

I think its just the order they are detected on start up.

You just need to remember GPU2 is the "Top" one

It's a pain, but I can think of worst problems to stuffer !

Smffy · 5 Sep 2016 at 21:33

VKleita said:
I think its just the order they are detected on start up.
You just need to remember GPU2 is the "Top" one It's a pain, but I can think of worst problems to stuffer !

I think on some motherboards you can swap that round, I want to say Asus but I can't remember to be honest...

BluD · 6 Sep 2016 at 01:40

Its strange, afterburner actually gets it right on mine, but everything else seems to get the order wrong.

Smffy · 7 Sep 2016 at 14:20

BluD said:
Its strange, afterburner actually gets it right on mine, but everything else seems to get the order wrong.

Maybe its just a windows thing with whichever you plug the monitor(s) in to? I don't think it matters though really...

BluD · 7 Sep 2016 at 16:56

Who knows, i used to get teh same thing with crossfire, my 290s always had the the top card as card 1 and the middle card as card 0, easiest way to find out is just disable SLI/crossfire when your not sure which is which then only one card will have load on.

AdamScott85 · 8 Sep 2016 at 13:47

Same thing happened to me the other month rofl, use Evga Precision, that recognises them correctly. MSI picked up my 2 980ti cards the wrong way round too. It's 100 percent a problem with MSI afterburner, or not so much a problem I guess but annoyed me. I use MSI version 980ti's. You can either ignore it or use Evga Precision which I now prefare.

Smffy · 9 Sep 2016 at 10:06

Interestingly if you use CAM to control fans I see now there is a GPU clocking feature in beta... Be nice to have it in one thing.