Crossfire woes, mp3, spec ops etc

maxstep

Hello fellow enthusiasts, please share your thoughts on the latest crossfire bliss. All the drivers (almost all the 12.x branch drivers, each cleanly installed after atiman uninstaller pass) and all the caps (currently 12.7 cap3 and 12.7 july 19 driver) give me severe issues on many many titles. Latest games are a nightmare - max payne 3 flickers madly (arcade act 1 for example - first set of light fixtures you see after the very short cutscene where max enters from the stairway, first room you enter, etc); ghost recon barely reaches 40 frames on 2560x1600 (i7 980x, 12gb ram, 6990+6970 on evga classified x58 4-way, ssd x25m); spec ops the line a- ambient occlusion leaves very pronounced traces (smudges) for a second or so after every movement, however subtle movement may be (stationary player just looking around is sufficient to see the artifacts); etc. I am so !@#$ing tired of this !@#$. Krater flickers too. Anybody having the same issues guys? Thank you

Miken420 · 08-11-2012, 10:18 | posts: 94 | Location: Chesilhurst NJ

With some games crossfire support comes out fast and on time and everything is great.

Then there's the games that take forever for them to fix CFX on.

For me it's Arma II, Tribes Ascend, Blacklight Retribution, SWTOR (just the galaxy map thank god *probably just jinxed myself)

I heard they finally fixed Skyrim. Last time I played I had to use Bandicam to limit my FPS and it played fine without flickering or stuttering.

Multi-GPU support is always slower to be fixed/released. Even on the green side. Lately though AMD has been the worst out of the two I'd say.

Varistargrim · 08-11-2012, 16:32 | posts: 32 | Location: Pt. Roberts, Wa

I've got spec ops and krater and haven't noticed any problems running 2 7770s. Ill look more into it when im off work.

The Postman · 08-11-2012, 17:02 | posts: 1,489 | Location: Boston

I dont share those issues but as an ex trifire owner, I would recommend stick to 2 gpus. Trifire only gives more max fps but most of the time lower min fps. Try playing those games with just a 6990 and check how it goes.

kn00tcn · **Memory**: OCZ 2x2gb 5-4-4-15 840mhz

is specops UE3? are you implying that with single gpu, the AO doesnt smear?

kevsamiga1974 · 08-14-2012, 20:43 | posts: 706 | Location: England

Tri-fire is definately worth it, but only for 1080p+ resolutions or eyefinity setups like he has. Minimises the microstutter as well to boot that x2 gpu's suffer from.

Guy with triple 6950's found out the same kinda thing with the 12.x series.

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/ar.../t-169381.html

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