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New to ATi - How do I get XFire to work

JaseUK

JaseUK

JaseUK

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Guys,
Just installed my 2 new MSI TF IIII 7950's and they are both recognised in Windows device manager.

I have installed the new 13.2 Beta drivers and the CAP drivers (not sure what these are like) but the second card seems to not do much.

Every now and then the fans will spin up on the 2nd card.

I have ran Heaven Valley and it is only using one of the cards.

I have the XFire bridge fitted and Crossfire turned on in the Catalyst driver suite.

Please help!
 
JaseUK said:
Guys,
Just installed my 2 new MSI TF IIII 7950's and they are both recognised in Windows device manager.

I have installed the new 13.2 Beta drivers and the CAP drivers (not sure what these are like) but the second card seems to not do much.

Every now and then the fans will spin up on the 2nd card.

I have ran Heaven Valley and it is only using one of the cards.

I have the XFire bridge fitted and Crossfire turned on in the Catalyst driver suite.

Please help!
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You installed the cap file? Caps are now included in the driver so you should not install them. Un-install those caps asap Soldier.

The latest beta driver which is 13.2 Beta 6 can be found here.
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/AMD_Catalyst_13.2_Beta6.exe (64bit)

After you install the drivers CCC should pop up. Its been a while since i had xfire but from memory you need to go into CCC and enable xfire.
 
Well, Valley certainly needs to have the option to 'use crossfire for applications that have no associated profile' checked in the crossfire section in CCC. That's true even for the latest beta 6 driver.

Only back in Crossfire-world myself after a break for a few year, so it's a bit hit and miss for me at the moment.....frustratingly so.
 
I have enabled xfire in CCC and uninstalled the cap drivers.

I still cant get valley do use both cards though.

Do I need to set a profile for Valley, and if so how?
 
Yep I can confirm I have both boxes ticked.

GPU-Z also says that I have Xfire enabled.

It must be a profile thing
 
Valley only shows one card if you have an AMD 7 series card or so it seems. Does your score indicate only one card is working? Expect you would be just over 3000 if running the Extreme HD benchmark on stock clocks.

Have to say with my 7970's I didn't need to do anything special, either with 13.2 b3 or b6.
 
Take a screenshot with MSI AB running showing clock speeds, usage etc.

Disable ULPS as well if you want. While idle the second GPU will shut down with ULPS enabled.
 
I ended up testing each card individually and noticed one of the cards was overheating.

On this particular card I would start Heaven benchmark and even before I started to bench the card it was reaching temps of 80-90 Celsius.

I tested the second card in the same PCI slot and it was fine.

I have requested an RMA which I really didn't want to do but I have no choice.

Problem is OcUK dont have anymore of these cards in stock. :mad:
 
Both cards have now been sent back, gutted. I will get the refund and hopefully see what cards they have in stock at the time and go from there.

Fingers crossed they get more MSI TFIII OC V2 cards in stock. :)

Now got to refit my 480's. :(
 
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