Crossfire installation advice.

[shawsy109]

So, I took the plunge, got a 850w OCZ PSU, and my 2nd HD6950 will be here very soon. My question is, Is there anything I need to do to prepare for crossfire? Does xfire use different drivers? Also I saw something about CAPS, which I checked out on AMD's site.

Just wondering?

 

[numatic.nathan]

Crossfire bridge and tick a box in CCC

 

[shawsy109]

Crossfire bridge and tick a box in CCC

Simple as that?

 

[numatic.nathan]

Pretty much, yeah!

 

[Dicehunter]

I highly recommend uninstalling your current driver and then rebooting into safe mode, runnning a small program called Driver Sweeper, latest version can be downloaded here - http://phyxion.net/Driver-Sweeper/Driver-Sweeper/Version-3-2-0/ - It is important to get rid of all traces of the previous driver as these could intefere with your new driver and potentially give you bugs or just knock your overall performance down.

Run Driver Sweeper, select your make of GPU I.E AMD/ATI Or Nvidia, analyze then clean, reboot into normal windows mode and then install the lastest driver for your graphics card, Having the latest driver for your GPU is quite important as these can improve performance quite a bit.

Its recommended to run driversweeper in safe mode so to start in safe mode type msconfig into your search box in the start menu, click on the icon, go to the boot tab and under boot options tick the box that says "Safe Boot", do this in reverse for when youve run driver cleaner and want to boot into normal windows mode.

Now its time to install the new driver -

Win 7 64 Bit -http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx

And lastly is the cap for the crossfire profiles - http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx

This is what i do every new driver release, takes a few minutes and eliminates any possibilities of previous driver issues.

Hope this helps

 

[shawsy109]

I highly recommend uninstalling your current driver and then rebooting into safe mode, runnning a small program called Driver Sweeper, latest version can be downloaded here - http://phyxion.net/Driver-Sweeper/Driver-Sweeper/Version-3-2-0/ - It is important to get rid of all traces of the previous driver as these could intefere with your new driver and potentially give you bugs or just knock your overall performance down.

Run Driver Sweeper, select your make of GPU I.E AMD/ATI Or Nvidia, analyze then clean, reboot into normal windows mode and then install the lastest driver for your graphics card, Having the latest driver for your GPU is quite important as these can improve performance quite a bit.

Its recommended to run driversweeper in safe mode so to start in safe mode type msconfig into your search box in the start menu, click on the icon, go to the boot tab and under boot options tick the box that says "Safe Boot", do this in reverse for when youve run driver cleaner and want to boot into normal windows mode.

Now its time to install the new driver -

Win 7 64 Bit -http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx

And lastly is the cap for the crossfire profiles - http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx

This is what i do every new driver release, takes a few minutes and eliminates any possibilities of previous driver issues.

Hope this helps

This is what I was looking for thnx

 

[elrasho]

I highly recommend uninstalling your current driver and then rebooting into safe mode, runnning a small program called Driver Sweeper, latest version can be downloaded here - http://phyxion.net/Driver-Sweeper/Driver-Sweeper/Version-3-2-0/ - It is important to get rid of all traces of the previous driver as these could intefere with your new driver and potentially give you bugs or just knock your overall performance down.

Run Driver Sweeper, select your make of GPU I.E AMD/ATI Or Nvidia, analyze then clean, reboot into normal windows mode and then install the lastest driver for your graphics card, Having the latest driver for your GPU is quite important as these can improve performance quite a bit.

Its recommended to run driversweeper in safe mode so to start in safe mode type msconfig into your search box in the start menu, click on the icon, go to the boot tab and under boot options tick the box that says "Safe Boot", do this in reverse for when youve run driver cleaner and want to boot into normal windows mode.

Now its time to install the new driver -

Win 7 64 Bit -http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx

And lastly is the cap for the crossfire profiles - http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx

This is what i do every new driver release, takes a few minutes and eliminates any possibilities of previous driver issues.

Hope this helps

+1

 

[tommybhoy]

I wouldn't do all that, myself being a 6950>70 CrossFire user.

Pointless imo, he's adding another 6950.

Plug it in, restart PC, wait until legacy drivers install, restart, if it doesn't ask you automatically, enable CrossFire tick box in CCC, install latest Caps, restart.

At the very most I would simply re-install AMD driver.

@DF1986, I used to do all that, until driver cleaner removed something it shouldn't have(despite doing the exact same removal process as always), resulting in CrossFire not wanting to work, new OS install was required.

 

[Final8y]

I wouldn't do all that, myself being a 6950>70 CrossFire user.

Pointless imo, he's adding another 6950.

Plug it in, restart PC, wait until legacy drivers install, restart, if it doesn't ask you automatically, enable CrossFire tick box in CCC, install latest Caps, restart.

At the very most I would simply re-install AMD driver.

@DF1986, I used to do all that, until driver cleaner removed something it shouldn't have(despite doing the exact same removal process as always), resulting in CrossFire not wanting to work, new OS install was required.

Agreed.

 

[shawsy109]

Thanks for input guys, but its been pointed out to me very clearly that my mobo will down clock my PCIEx16 down to x4 and bring it inline with the PCIEx4 slot. I have trawled all day on the web looking at x4/x4 crossfire and it seems it just isnt worth it from what I read.

My initial thought was that it would run at x16/x4 but I was wrong so I have decided not to get the 2nd card. I think I'm just going to go for a 680, I have changed my mind so many times the last few weeks im getting mad at myself. I will not change it again (I hope)

 

[Gazanimal]

Thanks for input guys, but its been pointed out to me very clearly that my mobo will down clock my PCIEx16 down to x4 and bring it inline with the PCIEx4 slot. I have trawled all day on the web looking at x4/x4 crossfire and it seems it just isnt worth it from what I read.

My initial thought was that it would run at x16/x4 but I was wrong so I have decided not to get the 2nd card. I think I'm just going to go for a 680, I have changed my mind so many times the last few weeks im getting mad at myself. I will not change it again (I hope)

I'd honestly wait a bit longer. With the release of the 670 due next week, there could be further price drops on the AMD side or the 670 option could be more viable. I'm looking to upgrade, but just sitting on my hands for another week or so.