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Extremely Annoying Crossfire Issues / Woes
- Thread starter Kasc
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It's a shame CrossFire is so finicky. At least it's great once you know the tricks what works for such and such game. The only game left now I've to try and fix is rFactor. I may have to do a fresh install of rFactor to see as I've transfered the directory from a few in OS installs but the performance hadn't plummeted until I went CrossFire.
Sadly Direct Friendly AFR doesn't up the performance and my tvstyle is busted up. Parts missing, parts working for some unknown reason.
Sadly Direct Friendly AFR doesn't up the performance and my tvstyle is busted up. Parts missing, parts working for some unknown reason.
Did the same as you but at 1920x1200
Xfire disabled in CCC: 116.0FPS
Enabled: 107.2FPS
???
The strange thing is my cards peaked at 60% usage and averaged about 50%? What the ****?
A single 6950 should be enough for rF+high aa I would have thought. Unless you're running a triple monitor / eyefinity setup ?
If none of the other RadeonPro profiles improve things it might be worth asking over at the ISI forums for assistance with rf & crossfire :
http://isiforums.net/f/
If none of the other RadeonPro profiles improve things it might be worth asking over at the ISI forums for assistance with rf & crossfire :
http://isiforums.net/f/
They are built into it by default.
And it's not really a profile. It renames the game's .exe on the fly to use the named profile contained in the Catalyst Application Profiles.
So if you set the crossfire profile to 'Bioshock' in RadeonPro, it uses the Bioshock definition in the CAP's.
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What are OcUKs policy on returns?
Whilst they never promised anything AMD have certainly been advertising that crossfire is the "ultimate" experience in performance. If anything it is the most ultimate experience of annoyance, frustration and disappointment.
I've had the card for just under a week.
Whilst they never promised anything AMD have certainly been advertising that crossfire is the "ultimate" experience in performance. If anything it is the most ultimate experience of annoyance, frustration and disappointment.
I've had the card for just under a week.
rFactor works fine but the problem is generalised as what generation of cards used in CF is a big factor & you & don't have a sig & neither did you mention what cards your using.
I'm always late on a generation or at least a gen behind as the CF issues have been more ironed out on it.
I see people have CF issues on 6xxx in games that are perfectly fine with the 5xxx.
If people want the least hassle with CF then don't CF a new gen that has not been out long enough to mature.
It's a shame AMD never took the Apple approach, "it just works" it really is annoying. Thank god for forums though. \o/
It is great when it does work but it's far from what it's advertised. You're led to believe get a second card, install, happy gaming. Look at Crysis2. ¬_¬ Had to wait for another driver or CAP's or don't wait and get Radeon Pro. A lot of tinkering.
It can be a great experience when it works but AMD's advertising for CrossFire stinks!
I'm on a set of 1GB 5870's. F1 2010 is flawless max settings, as is Ferrari Virtual Academy. Just rFactor the problems lie.
All advertising / marketing generally stinks, as it's glossed up to make you hit the buy button. Which is why you should never believe it.
With internet search engines & forums, there's no real reason to get stung these days by marketing faffle, unless you get unlucky with a bad hardware / software conflict.
Yeah thats what I've read, DX11 CrossFire is a known crashing issue. People were telling others to set it to DX9 on the Codemasters forum. I had experienced it. Soon as you went on the track, it would eventually black screen or BSOD. As you said doesn't happen when set to DX9. To be honest I couldn't tell the difference between DX11 and 9 in F1 2010.
Thats not the problem though.
My fps was never a steady 60 in CrossFire. Fluctuating all over the place from 30 to 60's with one car on track at Brands Hatch and many others. With a single GPU it never fell below 60 no matter what track even with some tight tracks with lots of tree's/foliage and lots of cars on track.
Though I've yet to try a new install of rFactor.
If you bought it mail order then you can return it under the Distance Selling Regulations for a full refund which includes any postage costs you paid.
You must notify the seller in writing within 7 working days from the day after the day of receipt that you are returning the item under DSR.
You must keep the item in reasonable condition. Ideally you return it in the original box with all the original accessories to avoid any arguement.
You would have to pay the postage costs of returning the item. For your own safety you should send it via a method with proof of delivery and appropriately insured.