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Crossfire and SWTOR

davey767

davey767

davey767

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Evening all. I'm thinking of purchasing another 7970 and going crossfire. At present I mainly play SWTOR. I tend to play MMOs mainly and wondered if crossfire is enabled in fullscreen windowed mode?

After some googling I found some conflicting answers. Is it possible to play TOR and most other modern games in windowed mode with crossfire enabled?

Thanks in advance.
 
Crossfire as far as I know doesn't work in windowed games, needs to be full screen.
At any rate, I wouldn't go Crossfire on TOR anyway, pretty CPU bound as most MMO's tend to be.
 
Martini1991 said:
Crossfire as far as I know doesn't work in windowed games, needs to be full screen.
At any rate, I wouldn't go Crossfire on TOR anyway, pretty CPU bound as most MMO's tend to be.
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Defo CPU bound but to get things looking pretty I need to use super-sampling so the extra GPU grunt would be nice. I just have this thing about playing games in full windowed. Alt tab a lot and prefer it to be seamless.

So if crossfire doesn't work in windowed I may think twice. Might have to consider Titan but I would wait and see how the 780 and 8 series work out.
 
davey767 said:
Thanks. I've also read SLI works in windowed mode. If that's correct does Nvidia have a bit of an advantage here? Also, again if this is correct, how can SLI take advantage of it when crossfire can't?
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You have read correctly and SLI does work in windowed mode. Not sure why AMD's crossfire doesn't work at all, in any game in windowed mode but I am sure it isn't a problem for those that use Crossfire (or they will never tell us it is a problem :p).
 
davey767 said:
Thanks. I've also read SLI works in windowed mode. If that's correct does Nvidia have a bit of an advantage here?
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:cool:

Yes.
davey767 said:
Also, again if this is correct, how can SLI take advantage of it when crossfire can't?
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Because it's FTW to Nvidia if users need to run in both windowed/FS as AMD haven't bothered to make it happen, as that's lost sales for AMD as it's a lazy effort on their behalf not to implement a needed feature imo, but, I'm lucky, I don't use windowed at all.:)
 
SLI might supposedly work in fullscreen windowed mode but if I run WoW in windowed I get less than half the FPS I do in fullscreen proper on SLI 580s...

Never really found it to be a bother in non-MMO situations as you don't tend to alt-tab so much :p
 
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