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I can't seem to find any guides or anything on how to use multiple GPUs with DX12 games. And yes my gtx 960 is sitting at 0% usage

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Won't work in SLI, your best bet is to use your 960 as a Dedicated PhysX card. 

 

Nvidia Control Panel> PhysX settings> Select 960 as the card.

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6 minutes ago, TechMasterMind said:

I can't seem to find any guides or anything on how to use multiple GPUs with DX12 games. And yes my gtx 960 is sitting at 0% usage

Almost all new games are optimized to run off of one card and most do not utilize SLI or Crossfire anymore.

 

Also I'm quite sure that to use Nvidia cards in SLI they need to be the same card ie. 2x GTX 1060 or 2x GTX 1080's etc. but I could be wrong here because I remember with crossfire you could use different cards.

 

Just sell your 960 for whatever you can get for it and overclock your 1060 slightly and call it a day.

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4 minutes ago, niofalpha said:

Won't work in SLI, your best bet is to use your 960 as a Dedicated PhysX card. 

 

Nvidia Control Panel> PhysX settings> Select 960 as the card.

 

2 minutes ago, Tz000 said:

Almost all new games are optimized to run off of one card and most do not utilize SLI or Crossfire anymore.

 

Also I'm quite sure that to use Nvidia cards in SLI they need to be the same card ie. 2x GTX 1060 or 2x GTX 1080's etc. but I could be wrong here because I remember with crossfire you could use different cards.

 

Just sell your 960 for whatever you can get for it and overclock your 1060 slightly and call it a day.

Well although I won't say that the performance gains are really worth it, both answers aren't really correct. The novel part about this is that Cross-fire or SLI aren't needed. Again just like I suggested to OP I suggest reading the MSDN developer blog about it. It does actually work.

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12 minutes ago, niofalpha said:

Won't work in SLI, your best bet is to use your 960 as a Dedicated PhysX card. 

 

Nvidia Control Panel> PhysX settings> Select 960 as the card.

I'm not talking about sli...

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11 minutes ago, Tz000 said:

Almost all new games are optimized to run off of one card and most do not utilize SLI or Crossfire anymore.

 

Also I'm quite sure that to use Nvidia cards in SLI they need to be the same card ie. 2x GTX 1060 or 2x GTX 1080's etc. but I could be wrong here because I remember with crossfire you could use different cards.

 

Just sell your 960 for whatever you can get for it and overclock your 1060 slightly and call it a day.

I'm not talking about SLI and one of them is going to my friend at some point

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6 minutes ago, mathizel said:

 

Well although I won't say that the performance gains are really worth it, both answers aren't really correct. The novel part about this is that Cross-fire or SLI aren't needed. Again just like I suggested to OP I suggest reading the MSDN developer blog about it. It does actually work.

Well it depends if it's alternate frame rendering or split frame rendering etc. some DX12 titles might gain a good chunk of performance from this which I'm happy to take if it's there but the problem is I litterally get 0% so I'm sure i  must have something disabled somewhere.

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15 minutes ago, mathizel said:

Well if everything is properly set-up you don't need to do anything. Games that are made in DX12 and use this should use it automatically. Example: Microsoft Developer Blog about Rise of the Tomb Raider using this.

OK so is there some list of games that actually support this? or alternatively is there just some other way to make use of my 960 for compute etc?

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4 minutes ago, TechMasterMind said:

Well it depends if it's alternate frame rendering or split frame rendering etc. some DX12 titles might gain a good chunk of performance from this which I'm happy to take if it's there but the problem is I litterally get 0% so I'm sure i  must have something disabled somewhere.

 

2 minutes ago, TechMasterMind said:

OK so is there some list of games that actually support this? or alternatively is there just some other way to make use of my 960 for compute etc?

There isn't really a library I could recommend but google shows me this (external link).

 

As for your second question, that depends on what you use your PC for. I don't have enough knowledge about doing those kinds of things to give you a proper answer. Although I do think some people use a second GPU for Mining.

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1 minute ago, FunkmastaFlex said:

https://www.geforce.com/games-applications/technology/sli

Fine suggestion, but as mentioned before we are specifically talking about DX12 explicit GPU and not SLI. So this list doesn't show games that Utilize this. Or at least, not exclusively. Do you happen to know if there is a DX12 list?

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:/ OK oh well I was hoping that battlefeild one MS Andromeda or Destiny 2 speciffically might show up ;....(

But thanks a million asnyways.

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4 minutes ago, FunkmastaFlex said:

https://www.geforce.com/games-applications/technology/sli

Not talking about SLI unfortunately.

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3 minutes ago, Keshro said:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=directx+12+games

It isn't as simple as just looking for DX12 games and seeing if said game I'm playing is also DX12 each game has to be developed to use explicit multi GPU.

Please read what has been written in the post and think about it in future.

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