Been farting around with this since yesterday and still no closer to sorting it out. Tried numerous drivers and caps and the gpu load always seems to remain around the same, the one time i got the 6990, loaded to 96-99% the 6970 was sitting around the 65-70 % range:
Thats at 5760x1080 "ultra" with hbao\ssao off no motion blur and no msaa.
12.3 drivers seemed to load the 6990 nicely but again the 6970 was stuck around the 65-75 percentage, and obviously at this res the higher the load the better to make it playable. After trying numerous other drivers and caps i tried to reinstall the 12.3's and got the dreaded "atikmdag.sys" bsod. Ended up restoring my system to last week and still the same deal when i try and install that driver, bsod around half way through the install.
So far tried crysis 2, tf2, bc2, tf2 loads all on the 6970, 6990 is just idle, bc2 its around 40% per gpu, same with crysis 2. Think i'll plonk the 6990 in the top slot nearest the cpu and see if anything changes.
Quite frustrating really, suppose i'll have to wait for 12.4 to make an appearence to see if theres an more fps to be gained. its playable at the minute but not as much as it should be, theres quite a bit to be gained fps wise if the gpu's all load up properly, just a matter of what to do to get that load increased.
Thats at 5760x1080 "ultra" with hbao\ssao off no motion blur and no msaa.
12.3 drivers seemed to load the 6990 nicely but again the 6970 was stuck around the 65-75 percentage, and obviously at this res the higher the load the better to make it playable. After trying numerous other drivers and caps i tried to reinstall the 12.3's and got the dreaded "atikmdag.sys" bsod. Ended up restoring my system to last week and still the same deal when i try and install that driver, bsod around half way through the install.
So far tried crysis 2, tf2, bc2, tf2 loads all on the 6970, 6990 is just idle, bc2 its around 40% per gpu, same with crysis 2. Think i'll plonk the 6990 in the top slot nearest the cpu and see if anything changes.
Quite frustrating really, suppose i'll have to wait for 12.4 to make an appearence to see if theres an more fps to be gained. its playable at the minute but not as much as it should be, theres quite a bit to be gained fps wise if the gpu's all load up properly, just a matter of what to do to get that load increased.
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