With a reinstall of Windows 7, I reinstalled Arma 3 and everything that goes with Sa-Matra's Wasteland launcher (downloads mods via steam, really nice).
Using my two Sapphire 290x cards in crossfire configuration, I seem to have both cards working.
One thing that stands out, as I play with this monitor, and I don't quite know if this is because of the latest beta Crimson driver and/or running freesync, but the cards seeem less stressed, both running around 800MHz, something I have never seen before when running crossfire with these cards of mine.
One thing I should mention: I suspect one of the cards may be damaged. I blame AMD myself. At this point in time, things seem to work ok though.
Because of how Wasteland is cpu intensive, server side foremost, frame rates never sky rocket with a server full of players, and expected fps is anything from 30 to 90 depending on how many people are on the server, and where you are on the map.
When installing Teamspeak 3, I also installed Overwolf, and that gave me a fps counter which I like. I used to have Fraps, and then Steam, to give me a fps counter on the screen. With Overwolf I should be able too see who is actually talking on teamspeak, while playing.
To be honest, I had no expectations of any improvement by going from 60Hz to 144Hz, in windows and in games, and I am not sure I see any improvement. Things do seem fluid, but I don't know.
Wasteland is perhaps not the best game to test out freesync, given the very varying fps everyone get. Getting a constant 60fps is just not possible because of how Arma 3 was made by the developers.
Edit: Hm, the next time I play Wasteland I should compare the GPU usage % and Hz, with the fps, to see if fps perhaps is under the freesync range, in case it matters (wouldn't think so though).
Using my two Sapphire 290x cards in crossfire configuration, I seem to have both cards working.
One thing that stands out, as I play with this monitor, and I don't quite know if this is because of the latest beta Crimson driver and/or running freesync, but the cards seeem less stressed, both running around 800MHz, something I have never seen before when running crossfire with these cards of mine.
One thing I should mention: I suspect one of the cards may be damaged. I blame AMD myself. At this point in time, things seem to work ok though.
Because of how Wasteland is cpu intensive, server side foremost, frame rates never sky rocket with a server full of players, and expected fps is anything from 30 to 90 depending on how many people are on the server, and where you are on the map.
When installing Teamspeak 3, I also installed Overwolf, and that gave me a fps counter which I like. I used to have Fraps, and then Steam, to give me a fps counter on the screen. With Overwolf I should be able too see who is actually talking on teamspeak, while playing.
To be honest, I had no expectations of any improvement by going from 60Hz to 144Hz, in windows and in games, and I am not sure I see any improvement. Things do seem fluid, but I don't know.
Wasteland is perhaps not the best game to test out freesync, given the very varying fps everyone get. Getting a constant 60fps is just not possible because of how Arma 3 was made by the developers.Edit: Hm, the next time I play Wasteland I should compare the GPU usage % and Hz, with the fps, to see if fps perhaps is under the freesync range, in case it matters (wouldn't think so though).
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but i wanted to say this incase its useful info to anyone else!