GPU at 99%?

[Gregali46290]

I have been playing with this setup for a while and no problems until today. When I go into my game (FFXIV) my second GPU shoots up to 99% and my first to 65% while staring at a wall a few feet from my character. Also due to the high usage I'm am now experiencing screen taring and fragmenting which I also never had happen before. Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated.

 

[i7Baby]

ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 Motherboard,
i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40Hz
CM Hyper 212 Evo cooler,
AMD Radeon 6970+6950,
16 GB DDR 3 Ram,
Corsair TX650 Power Supply,
CM Storm Stryker Case
(Everything is at stock clocks)

FF XIV looks GPU intensive - http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=6242&game=Final%20Fantasy%20XIV:%20A%20Realm%20Reborn

According to http://www.game-debate.com/news/?news=10732, the 6950 and 6970 should crossfire OK. I don't know which is first and second.

Usually the primary card (nearest the cpu) carries most of the load (and gets hotter).

Have you tried with just one card at a time? (to check they are both running OK)

 

[Gregali46290]

I did not try them one at a time, and the 6970 is the closer one to the cpu. This is why I don't get why the second one is spiking to 99%. As far as the performance pre-issue, it was amazing. I could do the 24 man raids on almost maxed out settings with no lag and the cards weren't maxing out. Could resetting them possibly fix it?

 

[i7Baby]

Try one card at a time.

Resetting? Are they overclocked? Using Afterburner? What temps?

 

[Gregali46290]

No not overclocked, I meant taking them out and re inserting them. It fixed my friends problem. I did just run 3D Mark 11 benchmark and that ran fine. gpu 1- 99%, 2- 80%+ I did turn off x-fire and tried the first card in-game and the % went up and down with the graphics settings.

 

[i7Baby]

Yeah - sometimes if you have dirty pcie slots it can stop them working completely.

If its running OK in the benchmark, then maybe something is weird with what ever else your running on it.

 

[i7Baby]

Also see http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/257qys/ffxiv_and_amd_drivers/

 

[sora]

Yeah - sometimes if you have dirty pcie slots it can stop them working completely.

If its running OK in the benchmark, then maybe something is weird with what ever else your running on it.

This, also, FFXIV may just be GPU intensive.