Other Applications list
3dmark01
3dmark03
3dmark05
PCMark04
Code Creatures
HDRLighting
D3DRightMark
Trees of Pangaea
Shadermark 2.1
Dawn
Nalu

This is the current list of Scalable games and applications on NVIDIA’s website. You’ll notice it’s a fairly complete list of the games and benchmarks recently released and some older games as well. One thing about the games list is NVIDIA recently released a new 71.84 driver that added many new games and applications. Games like Doom 3, Half Life 2, Far Cry, and Battlefield Vietnam highlight the supported games so far. I’m sure as we move further into 2005, NVIDIA will add support for other games as they're released and beome popular.

One thing that’s interesting about the list on NVIDIA’s site is that some of them are benchmarks like Aquamark 3, 3dmark 2003, 3dmark 2005, and Code Creatures. It’s both a good and bad thing to optimize for benchmarks. On the one hand, it can show real performance increases with two video cards. On the other hand, optimizing for benchmarks that don’t have a game can lead to problems like 2003’s 3DMark 2003 cheating scandal.

So how about playing games on the 6800GT SLI and GA-K8N SLI motherboard? Half Life 2 runs like a dream on the tested configuration of a Athlon 64 4000+ with 1 GB of Crucial Tracer DDR memory and dual 6800GTs. I was able to play the game at 1280X1024 32 bit 4x AA and 16x AF throughout. Valve has fixed many of the stuttering problems found in earlier versions of the game with the 7 engine. Frankly, this game is mostly CPU limited in a lot of areas.

The second game I tried with dual 6800GTs is Doom 3. With a single 6800GT I was able to play the game comfortably at 1280x1024 2x AA 8x AF. This is my personal experience and everyone might have a slight difference of opinion on playability. With 2 6800GTs, I cranked the settings to 1280x1024 4x AA and 16X AF. At this setting, the game is totally playable in SLI.