Elite Dangerous Crossfire

[shankly1985]

I see the AMD defence force is out in full swing. Might have a point if you even played it

This isn't an Nvidia game and there is no Nvidia banners anywhere in the game but credit where credit is due and they did work closely with FD to get SLI working in this game. AMD chiefs could learn a thing or two from that

What does making me play the game after do what I just said? Nothing
I have been full vocal for AMD users in trying to get an answer and even I have been ignored.. They is a reason and fr some reason AMD don't want to say anything.
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[LoadsaMoney]

If you're referring to FreeSync being delayed for Multi GPU then yes, we delayed it to get it perfect. We'd rather take this approach than rush stuff out the door only to have to release a new driver next week to correct other issues that arise from a rushed driver.

Only got to look at Nvidias game ready drivers to see that rushing them out doesn't work

 

[Gregster]

I see some nvidia users are using this thread to help there need to hate..

What does making me play the game after do what I just said? Nothing

That says it all really.

I have put far more time into this game than all my other games combined in the last year and if you played the game at all, you would know that there is some jaggies about and 1440P isn't enough to get rid of them, there is an option for supersampling which clears them nicely but you need some serious grunt to run that but feel free to say that this doesn't need a Crossfire profile if you like. AMD are lazy and that is that.

 

[shankly1985]

That says it all really.

I have put far more time into this game than all my other games combined in the last year and if you played the game at all, you would know that there is some jaggies about and 1440P isn't enough to get rid of them, there is an option for supersampling which clears them nicely but you need some serious grunt to run that but feel free to say that this doesn't need a Crossfire profile if you like. AMD are lazy and that is that.

Did I say it doesn't? Nice way on twisting thing once again Greg.

They is other things you can do driver side on getting rid off AA also forcing smaa helps.

 

[varkanoid]

Just noticed this thread and it made me laugh. Why on earth does anyone need to run this game in Crossfire (or SLI) for that matter. Its not the most demanding of games. Even my HD4600 laptop at work makes a good job of it at medium/low settings. At the other end my 980TI at 4k kills it with everything on/full/ultra whatever.

A Single 970 or 290 should easily do the same surely.

 

[uksoldierboy]

Just noticed this thread and it made me laugh. Why on earth does anyone need to run this game in Crossfire (or SLI) for that matter. Its not the most demanding of games. Even my HD4600 laptop at work makes a good job of it at medium/low settings. At the other end my 980TI at 4k kills it with everything on/full/ultra whatever.

A Single 970 or 290 should easily do the same surely.

It's not the performance that bothers me, for the most part it runs great, fully maxed out including SSx2 @1440P. Fps seem to drop a little heading towards some stations (30-40fps) but otherwise remains around 60fps everywhere else.

The issue i have is that i have a second card just sitting there doing bugger all, i bought to get more fps in the games i play, so far it's not worked out all that great.

BF4 crashes using crossfire in Direct X and Mantle.

GTAV is a massive mess with constant FPS fluctuations for no reason.

Elite Dangerous has no crossfire profile when it's been out for ages.

In fact the only game i've played without issue was Witcher 3, awesome performance from CF Fury x and didn't have one crash, even using GameWorks stuff.

For me AMD really REALLY need to start getting better comms with it's customers, at least let us know what the issue is instead of us being left in the dark.

As it stands i'm about ready to throw these on the MM and be done with it.

 

[tommybhoy]

Probably better off punting one and going FreeSnyc or sell both and go 980Ti/G-Sync if cost isn't an issue.

Only got to look at Nvidias game ready drivers to see that rushing them out doesn't work

Thought my 970 got replaced when latest game ready broke G-Sync and cut fps in half, maybe it was just a test run.

 

[JediFragger]

Probably better off punting one and going FreeSnyc or sell both and go 980Ti/G-Sync if cost isn't an issue.



Thought my 970 got replaced when latest game ready broke G-Sync and cut fps in half, maybe it was just a test run.

Think Dave does have a Freesync monitor? If that's the case I'd be tempted to sell one of the FX's and make do until the next chips arrive (if I were him of course)

 

[pgi947]

This bring me back to one thing I really hate about AMD and that communication with the community.

It's a double edged sword for them, on one hand it's great how vocal and community focused their support and PR is, on the other it can lead to knee jerk comments that leave the consumer feeling lost, especially when it comes to dead lines and release dates, they always like to give an exact date to something, that they'll usually miss to the point it's a running joke.

 

[Gregster]

Probably better off punting one and going FreeSnyc or sell both and go 980Ti/G-Sync if cost isn't an issue.



Thought my 970 got replaced when latest game ready broke G-Sync and cut fps in half, maybe it was just a test run.

What G-Sync screen do you have?

 

[uksoldierboy]

Think Dave does have a Freesync monitor? If that's the case I'd be tempted to sell one of the FX's and make do until the next chips arrive (if I were him of course)

Yep, bought one to go with the cards, https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-078-AC&groupid=17&catid=94
Spent the best part of £1600 with the cards and monitor, which is why i've held on as long as i have, when it works, it's great, but like i said... at the moment it's rarer than rocking horse poo!

Biggest kick in the balls was the money i used was part my pension payout from the an injured in the forces, just feel i've wasted the money on something i can barely use

I really hope AMD can just sort it all out asap, but i fear with the die shrink on route it'll be left to rot.

 

[shankly1985]

Yep, bought one to go with the cards, https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-078-AC&groupid=17&catid=94
Spent the best part of £1600 with the cards and monitor, which is why i've held on as long as i have, when it works, it's great, but like i said... at the moment it's rarer than rocking horse poo!

Biggest kick in the balls was the money i used was part my pension payout from the an injured in the forces, just feel i've wasted the money on something i can barely use

I really hope AMD can just sort it all out asap, but i fear with the die shrink on route it'll be left to rot.

Are the issues you having widespread? Have you tried other testing like putting the GPUs in another system etc?

If I was you I would be ruling out much possible they isn't a fault with one of the GPUs..

I say this because I have been in a situation where games would crash etc it turned out to be my second gpu was faulty ocuk replaced it for me.

 

[D.P.]

Yer, SLI works very well and has done since I got the game back in December but if FD is refusing to add support for Crossfire, then that isn't AMD's fault....Poor AMD always getting shafted.

Even if the developer needs to change something then it is hardly their fault. The market share of multi-GUs is pretty minimal as it is and then AMD have woeful market share, so the number number of AMD multi-gpu users is just not going to be a priority for game developers and it will be up to AMD to support the developers. TBH, it is much for the for Nvidia SLI, for a game to get really good support it will most likely have needed help form Nvidia.

Game developers are under enormous pressure to hit certain release schedules, are under staffed , over worked and struggle to release a game without any major bugs, let alone add some nice features that only a tiny minority of gamers can use.


Nothing will change with DX12, just because the API now has better mGPU support doesn't magically give developers more time and resources to developer mGPU rendering techniques. Quite the opposite, DX12 is a harder API to develope and requires even more resources.


I can see a lot of indy developer moving to commercial engines over the coming years. This was bound to happen anyway, the complexity of games means you can't get a few good programmers plus artists to produce a game in a timely manner. DX12 and ever more advanced effects simply pushes development costs beyond the small developer realms.

 

[passey89]

Yep, bought one to go with the cards, https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-078-AC&groupid=17&catid=94
Spent the best part of £1600 with the cards and monitor, which is why i've held on as long as i have, when it works, it's great, but like i said... at the moment it's rarer than rocking horse poo!

Biggest kick in the balls was the money i used was part my pension payout from the an injured in the forces, just feel i've wasted the money on something i can barely use

I really hope AMD can just sort it all out asap, but i fear with the die shrink on route it'll be left to rot.

I gave up on waiting for amd to sort crossfire out for my 290x 8gb crossfires.
Elite is never going to have them, the games been out nearly 12 months now and no profiles.

I sold mine and just went 980ti and tbh its better is every game.

 

[uksoldierboy]

Are the issues you having widespread? Have you tried other testing like putting the GPUs in another system etc?

If I was you I would be ruling out much possible they isn't a fault with one of the GPUs..

Done it all Shankly,

Tested both card individually, both are fine, tried every driver from 15.7.1 to 15.10.

System at stock or overclocked makes no difference.

I'm 100% certain it's not my system or the cards being faulty, it just AMD Drviers/Crossfire profiles on Fury X.

Only play GTAV, HD, Arma 3 and BF4, out of those, GTAV has massive fps drops for no reason, HD doesn't have a proper CF Profile, Arma 3 works as well as can be expected, BF4 crashes constantly using DX, and mantle, both errors are to do with AMD Drivers and a badly formed command.

Tried reinstalling the game, different settings, graphically qualities, all of it.

 

[uksoldierboy]

I gave up on waiting for amd to sort crossfire out for my 290x 8gb crossfires.
Elite is never going to have them, the games been out nearly 12 months now and no profiles.

I sold mine and just went 980ti and tbh its better is every game.

I'm going to have a think tonight and decide what I'm going to do, if i am going to sell them it makes sense to do it now while their worth something.

 

[shankly1985]

Done it all Shankly,

Tested both card individually, both are fine, tried every driver from 15.7.1 to 15.10.

System at stock or overclocked makes no difference.

I'm 100% certain it's not my system or the cards being faulty, it just AMD Drviers/Crossfire profiles on Fury X.

Only play GTAV, HD, Arma 3 and BF4, out of those, GTAV has massive fps drops for no reason, HD doesn't have a proper CF Profile, Arma 3 works as well as can be expected, BF4 crashes constantly using DX, and mantle, both errors are to do with AMD Drivers and a badly formed command.

Tried reinstalling the game, different settings, graphically qualities, all of it.

OK just reading motherboard manual. Can you confirm what slots the both GPUs are installed into?
Is the motherboard drivers also fully up to date chipset etc

It could very well be amd driver but I have been in a situation quite like yourself and it was a faulty GPU.

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

I'm going to have a think tonight and decide what I'm going to do, if i am going to sell them it makes sense to do it now while their worth something.

Stick with the Fury X's. Now stock is improving the prices will be dropping. Plus anyone that's read this thread or any other's where you've mentioned issues will likely be hesitant to buy them.

Plus, if people buy your Fury Xs second hand then they won't be paying AMD anything and AMD need all the money they can get by the sounds of it!

Anyway, the problem(s) probably not AMD's fault it'll be something else to blame

 

[uksoldierboy]

OK just reading motherboard manual. Can you confirm what slots the both GPUs are installed into?
Is the motherboard drivers also fully up to date chipset etc

It could very well be amd driver but I have been in a situation quite like yourself and it was a faulty GPU.

Tried the cards in slot 1 and 2 (8x 8x) now in 1 and 3 (16x 8x).
Latest drivers, bios etc

I've tried each card on BF4, played for hours with both, second i use CF the game has a brain fart and dies.

 

[shankly1985]

Tried the cards in slot 1 and 2 (8x 8x) now in 1 and 3 (16x 8x).
Latest drivers, bios etc

I've tried each card on BF4, played for hours with both, second i use CF the game has a brain fart and dies.

Yeah pcie 1 and pcie 2 3rd slot is the correct way..
Is it possible though to test them in another system or is that not possible?

Apart from that am not sure what the issue is.. Do you know anyone else with furyx crossfire? Maybe they can test battlefield 4 gta5 etc