Crossfire 7970's poor crysis 3 performance!

Skynet-T800 · 26 Apr 2013 at 20:45

Hi,

Just set this up!

Tested battlefield 3 I'm getting 140-180fps on max settings.

Crysis 3 about 25-30fps? Crossfire'd.

Is there a cap profile or something I need?

ArchAndroid · 26 Apr 2013 at 21:06

Which drivers are you currently using?

Skynet-T800 · 26 Apr 2013 at 22:00

Driver Packaging Version 12.104-130328a-155980C-ATI
Catalyst Version 13.4

ArchAndroid · 27 Apr 2013 at 09:13

What screen size and what anti-aliasing are you using?

Crysis 3 performance is known to tank when it comes to using the higher types of anti-aliasing although I would have thought that a pair of 7970s would be able to handle it.

pgi947 · 27 Apr 2013 at 09:17

If you have it fully maxed out those frame rates seem about right unfortunately.

Don't know if it's a case of yet another poorly coded crysis game or if the engine is just that demanding.

Lower AA and the likes you should see big performance gains without losing much eye candy.

Kaapstad · 27 Apr 2013 at 09:29

pgi947 said:
If you have it fully maxed out those frame rates seem about right unfortunately.

Don't know if it's a case of yet another poorly coded crysis game or if the engine is just that demanding.

Lower AA and the likes you should see big performance gains without losing much eye candy.

Totally maxing Crysis 3 on mine with 4 Titans @1600p gives about 60 min, 80 avg and 100 max, it takes a lot of GPU grunt to get reasonable fps. It also uses 3.5gbs of vram at the above resolution.

whyscotty · 27 Apr 2013 at 09:33

Kaapstad said:
Totally maxing Crysis 3 on mine with 4 Titans @1600p gives about 60 min, 80 avg and 100 max, it takes a lot of GPU grunt to get reasonable fps. It also uses 3.5gbs of vram at the above resolution.

Is this with AA maxed also?

Kaapstad · 27 Apr 2013 at 09:33

whyscotty said:
Is this with AA maxed also?

Yes

pgi947 · 27 Apr 2013 at 09:38

That's a fair bit of power required!!

I wouldn't mind so much but the game doesn't look that good.

whyscotty · 27 Apr 2013 at 09:41

pgi947 said:
I wouldn't mind so much but the game doesn't look that good.

Looks impressive though

Kaapstad · 27 Apr 2013 at 09:48

This is what I am using

Using the above I don't need to run my CPU above 4.0ghz

martos123 · 27 Apr 2013 at 10:07

I'm running 7970CF @ 1920x1200 Maxed (inc 8xMSAA) without a hitch. Using 13.5b2 + 13.4 CAP.

bemaniac · 27 Apr 2013 at 10:10

you don't need CAP with the 13.5b2 do you?

LtMatt · 27 Apr 2013 at 10:18

bemaniac said:
you don't need CAP with the 13.5b2 do you?

Correct.

Skynet-T800 · 27 Apr 2013 at 12:24

ArchAndroid said:
What screen size and what anti-aliasing are you using?

Crysis 3 performance is known to tank when it comes to using the higher types of anti-aliasing although I would have thought that a pair of 7970s would be able to handle it.

Screen size is 1080p 120hz

Was fully Maxing it out as I really thought it should breeze this game!

Will mess about with the AA and see how it runs.

Skynet-T800 · 27 Apr 2013 at 12:25

martos123 said:
I'm running 7970CF @ 1920x1200 Maxed (inc 8xMSAA) without a hitch. Using 13.5b2 + 13.4 CAP.

What frame rate you getting?

Freddie1980 · 27 Apr 2013 at 14:07

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crysis-3-performance-benchmark-gaming,3451-6.html

Try using the same settings their using in this benchmark and see if you can get close to replicating the results.

Skynet-T800 · 27 Apr 2013 at 17:01

Freddie1980 said:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crysis-3-performance-benchmark-gaming,3451-6.html

Try using the same settings their using in this benchmark and see if you can get close to replicating the results.

Will try this thanks, does Cyrsis 3 have it's own benchmarking software?

old gamer · 27 Apr 2013 at 18:12

Im getting a min of 40fps with a single 7970 on 120hz 1080p, looks as if xfire is not working, might be worth disabling xfire and see what happens

Tonester0011 · 27 Apr 2013 at 18:26

I've not played Crysis 3 yet, other than 10 mins at the start...i think i was getting 60+fps with everything turned up to 11 using CF7970s @1080.

If you give me a couple of hours to put my rig back together i can run tests using both single card, CF and tri-fire. Pretty sure i have it installed on one of my SSDs.