Trifire\Eyefinity gpus not being loaded properly

[Gerard]

Been farting around with this since yesterday and still no closer to sorting it out. Tried numerous drivers and caps and the gpu load always seems to remain around the same, the one time i got the 6990, loaded to 96-99% the 6970 was sitting around the 65-70 % range:

Thats at 5760x1080 "ultra" with hbao\ssao off no motion blur and no msaa.

12.3 drivers seemed to load the 6990 nicely but again the 6970 was stuck around the 65-75 percentage, and obviously at this res the higher the load the better to make it playable. After trying numerous other drivers and caps i tried to reinstall the 12.3's and got the dreaded "atikmdag.sys" bsod. Ended up restoring my system to last week and still the same deal when i try and install that driver, bsod around half way through the install.


So far tried crysis 2, tf2, bc2, tf2 loads all on the 6970, 6990 is just idle, bc2 its around 40% per gpu, same with crysis 2. Think i'll plonk the 6990 in the top slot nearest the cpu and see if anything changes.

Quite frustrating really, suppose i'll have to wait for 12.4 to make an appearence to see if theres an more fps to be gained. its playable at the minute but not as much as it should be, theres quite a bit to be gained fps wise if the gpu's all load up properly, just a matter of what to do to get that load increased.

 

[Gerard]

Just tried with the 6970 disabled, gpu loads on the 6990 shoot upto 90% gpu1 99% gpu2, just seems like when the 6970 is enabled it doesnt know how to spread the load properly.

 

[Final8y]

I have seen you post this on 3 forums now and i have not seen anyone else with 6990+6970 combo come forwards, so it does not look like a general issue.

Had trifire for a day or so now and just frustrated with it, tried multiple driver revisions and a lot of games just don't seem to know wtf to do with 3 gpu's, most of the time 40-50% of each gpu is being used and thats it.

Some games even refuse to use the other gpu's at all, TF2 is a good example, tried that out and no load on the 6990 whatsoever, it was just using the 6970. Battlefield 3 seems to like using around 70% or so of each gpu leaving 90% or thereabouts doing nothing, Crysis 2 same deal, Bad Company 2 same again.

It also seems picky about drivers, 12.3 just blue screened my system and ive not been able to reinstall it since, anytime i try its the "atikmdag.sys" (yes that ancient chestnut still rearing its head) error.

 

[Gerard]

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=694468

Going to try that driver revision in the morning, his description more or less seems to be the same issue I'm having. Dunno about formatting though, seems slightly drastic.

 

[chief barker]

May be relevant but i'm having the same issue with my 7970s.

I'm only getting 80% usage with my cards in BF3.

Cpu is 75% too.

I've submitted a ticket to the Catalyst driver team , maybe you should do that too.

 

[Final8y]

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=694468

Going to try that driver revision in the morning, his description more or less seems to be the same issue I'm having. Dunno about formatting though, seems slightly drastic.

I'm not talking about BF3 specifically because there is a whole world of issues there and for some there is little to none and for others there is plenty, its the other games you mentioned in the quote and the fact that multiple driver versions gave you the same results which suggests there is more a platform issue.

As for BF3 there seems to be a relationship with eyefinity

What are the specifications of your system? Overclocked CPU, PCI-E lanes, resolution played at?

In online combat, I'm between 95-99% on all 4 GPUs @ 2560x1600.
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http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33988921

Bad Trifire scaling in BF3
***All issues below have been resolved by reinstalling a fresh copy of Windows 7 with 11.12 CCC and 11.12 CAP1. I am confused as to what was actually causing the problem but it is working correctly now in BF3.***

Good scaling, and very smooth gameplay with no stuttering or lag.
AMD FX 8150
ASROCK 990FX
3X 6970 TriFired
3X Acer 23" LED in 5760x1080
Soundblaster X-FI Titanium Pro
w/audio-technica open airs and Logitech 530 5.1
8gb Corsair Vengance
SS Temjin Tj05 case
Corsair 1000 psu
120 GB Corsair Force GT synchronous SSD
2x 74 gb raptors
640 WD Caviar black

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=694468

 

[Gerard]

A formats the last thing im going to try, few other things to try out first.

 

[Gerard]

Loaded in the 11.12 drivers, seems to be loading the gpu's up nicely. So wtf is going on with the other sets? Trifire just broken as of late?

 

[Final8y]

Loaded in the 11.12 drivers, seems to be loading the gpu's up nicely. So wtf is going on with the other sets? Trifire just broken as of late?

I still think its in combination with Eyefinity for some people that's the issue as others reply that they are not having that issue on a single screen.