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ALXAndy

ALXAndy

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Can some one please, without this thread turning to crap, tell me how Crossfire is as of today please? I also need clear information on..

What games does it work well in? does it work well in Witcher 3? because as of now I would love to run it at ultra @ 4k with Hairworks on.

How does one disable Crossfire so that it completely goes away and does not cause stutter ?

Any other information would be gratefully received.
 
I have crossfire and don't have a problem with it. In fact it has saved me a lot of cash and I don't see a need to upgrade a while yet.
Witcher 3, Dying light initially didn't have support but now work fine. Farcry 4 runs amazing now after various driver updates.

I run Witcher 3 with Hairworks on and get 60fps at 1080P (AA disabled, tessellation set to 16X in CCC). Scaling seems to be about 80-90% since I get about 30-40fps in single card mode. Note that Witcher 3 I get stuttering problems which I think is due to the way the game loads textures as you move into different areas. Will need to try it on an SSD to see if that helps.

You can easily disable crossfire from CCC or right clicking on the CCC icon in the task bar. It's better to disable for any problem game via the CCC profiles though.
Most games work fine as long as there is a profile but if there isn't one you can still try other profiles to test. I did this with Witcher3 initially and got it running pretty good with the odd flicker here and there.

My cards are older so would expect anything above a R9 290 to be much better.
 
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I run crossfire and don't have any issues in any games tbh, haven't done for quite a while... Had some trouble in GTAV and Witcher 3 initially, but AMD *quickly* (as quick as AMD do anything) got new drivers out that fixed it for me.
Disabling xfire is as simple as going into CCC and checking the "Disable Crossfire" radial.

And yes, Witcher looks awesome "almost" (have to tweak a few things) maxed out at 4k :P Surprisingly though, I think Dragon Age Inquisition looks a little better (replaying that at the minute)
 
Wolfenstein isn't working for me.

Witches 3 has stutter at times but is playable.

GTAV seems ok last time I tried.

I won't be going crossfire again though. It's clunky and there's a lot of waiting for fixes
 
Yeah that's what worries me. There's also the issue that due to my rig layout using a standard Fury on air would be bad, as the intakes are not sufficient enough to feed an air cooled card. So it would have to be another X and that's money. And I don't want to spend money ruining my gaming experience.
 
I've not found any games it doesn't work with O.o And the easiest (by far) way around poor xfire would just be to switch to windowed mode, as xfire only works in fullscreen - which is actually my biggest issue with crossfire, I like playing borderless :/
 
Howling said:
I've not found any games it doesn't work with O.o And the easiest (by far) way around poor xfire would just be to switch to windowed mode, as xfire only works in fullscreen - which is actually my biggest issue with crossfire, I like playing borderless :/
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People's perceptions of what is excellent and what is quite poo though differ massively.

I recently ditched two Titan Blacks as they were beginning to creak at 4k. People say SLI is amazing and works really well? well I don't agree. I thought it did, but certain games were unplayable and I think I know why. Basically I could get 40-60 FPS out of Witcher 3 at medium settings. The issue is though it was like I was drunk.

It did not stutter but it just felt very strange and controlling it seemed a bit of a lottery. I am guessing it was Gsync that was making the game feel weird, and whilst it did remove stutter it added in a very odd sensation when the game was moving fast.

It was so bad that I literally could not play the game. Going from that to one card? it's absolute heaven I just wish I could crank the settings even higher.

Not that one Fury X is not enough for 4k gaming because if you are sensible it more than does what you would want it to but yeah, now that I've sorta fallen in love with Witcher 3 I would like to see it at full settings.
 
I found, with crossfire 290s, that some games that I'm sure previously worked with crossfire 7950s at 1080p didn't work at 4K. They were old games mind, so maybe that was the reason. It was Assassins Creed Brotherhood and X-COM.
Assassin's Creed doesn't work at 1440p with crossfire 290s either, but X-COM seems happier at 1440p with crossfire. Not that either of them need it.
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
I found, with crossfire 290s, that some games that I'm sure previously worked with crossfire 7950s at 1080p didn't work at 4K. They were old games mind, so maybe that was the reason. It was Assassins Creed Brotherhood and X-COM.
Assassin's Creed doesn't work at 1440p with crossfire 290s either, but X-COM seems happier at 1440p with crossfire. Not that either of them need it.
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As of right now I would only want it for Witcher 3. I know I won't need it for Fallout 4..

I may just stick to my original plan of getting a Nano and sticking that in there for a 4k boost.

I don't even know if I could mount another rad tbh I need to investigate that more thoroughly.
 
crossfire 290x 8gb's work perfeclty in all games atm.

Only one that doesn't is elite dangerous as there is still no crossfire profile.

You can set certain games not to use crossfire in CCC anyway so its not a problem. 1 290x can max elite even at 4k.

Be warned though 4gb cards do run out of vram at 4k so you might have the power but you will have to lower settings if u max the vram.
 
390 crossfire here, working really great with freesync. Most of the big games everything runs very good, only games I play that crossfire not working on is cities skyline and ark survival and I play a lot.
 
Just gone Xfire myself, only game im really having a mare with is GTA V, not reading the memory correctly of my Furys for some reason, and saying im using 7Gb, when im only using about 3.5Gb (as same settings on my 290x is only about 3.5Gb, which plays the game fine, smooth as butter), so stuttering and hitching, as its over the 4Gb according to the game (im hoping to sort though), in Dying Light, i get a quick like couple of second flickering in the background on the main menu when the game first loads up, but as its only for about a couple of seconds before going, it doesn't really bother me, as the game plays fine.

Grid 2, i get a slight flickering on the loading screens, and on the main Grid 2 badge screen where you select your profile to load, and quit back to windows, but the actual game plays and runs fine without issue, so again, doesn't really bother me, and other games ive got, tried so far, are fine :)
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Just gone Xfire myself, only game im really having a mare with is GTA V, not reading the memory correctly of my Furys for some reason, and saying im using 7Gb, when im only using about 3.5Gb (as same settings on my 290x is only about 3.5Gb, which plays the game fine, smooth as butter), so stuttering and hitching, as its over the 4Gb according to the game (im hoping to sort though), in Dying Light, i get a quick like couple of second flickering in the background on the main menu when the game first loads up, but as its only for about a couple of seconds before going, it doesn't really bother me, as the game plays fine.

Grid 2, i get a slight flickering on the loading screens, and on the main Grid 2 badge screen where you select your profile to load, and quit back to windows, but the actual game plays and runs fine without issue, so again, doesn't really bother me, and other games ive got, tried so far, are fine :)
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GTAV adds the memory of both cards together for its reading. half it for what ur actually using.
 
I run Crossfire a few times and most recently I have the 99% GPU 2 problem.

It was on their list of known bugs since 2013 and I guess they never bothered fixing it on some setups.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Just gone Xfire myself, only game im really having a mare with is GTA V, not reading the memory correctly of my Furys for some reason, and saying im using 7Gb, when im only using about 3.5Gb (as same settings on my 290x is only about 3.5Gb, which plays the game fine, smooth as butter), so stuttering and hitching, as its over the 4Gb according to the game (im hoping to sort though), in Dying Light, i get a quick like couple of second flickering in the background on the main menu when the game first loads up, but as its only for about a couple of seconds before going, it doesn't really bother me, as the game plays fine.

Grid 2, i get a slight flickering on the loading screens, and on the main Grid 2 badge screen where you select your profile to load, and quit back to windows, but the actual game plays and runs fine without issue, so again, doesn't really bother me, and other games ive got, tried so far, are fine :)
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If you're on about the VRAM then usage is doubled, so 7GB usage is actually 3.5GB mirrored on each card.
 
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