Crossfire noob. No speed/load info on second GPU?

[delhan]

This is my first ever double video card setup. 2 x 5850. 11.9 cats. Crossfire enabled. No messages in Diagnostics.

in both CCC and GPUz the second card readings are strange. like zero clocks when idle and 157 gpu / 400 mem / 0% load when run a 3D application .... is that normal or i should be seeing the same clocks (725 / 1000, stock 5850 clocks) in both GPUs and some load on the second card ?

sometimes CCC will show zero or 157 on second GPU while a 3D application is running while for example GPUz will be showing for the same card, 400 GPU speed, again no GPU load ...

Thanks!

[Extraordinary]

Its normal, and also CrossfireX only becomes active in full screen games, if they are Windowed it will drop back to 1 card only

[Lane]

There's a power saving function, who disable the second video card when not in use ( UPLS in register windows ) ... when you are under normal windows operation, the second card is power off ( power saving ) ...

So basically, when you are under windows and just browse internet, only the first gpu will work , when you enter an intensive task ( game or software who need it ) the second gpu will wake up.


By editing the register, you can set UPLS to off, and so both cards are acting //power on, all the time......... ( 157mhz / 300 inidlle and full clock when needed )

[delhan]

Hmmm thank you guys. Is there some monitoring utility that could run an osd on top of a full screen 3d application ?

[teleguy]

MSI Afterburner.

[delhan]

cool, even writes log reports.

[delhan]

Someone just told me

If A.I. is not set to advanced then crossfire is not enabled. Thats the way it works.

Seems kinda odd to me, is that so ?