Is Crossfire this bad ?

[Nicolas145]

I have 2 6870 on Crossfire and i think its having problem with Crysis, its set on medium yet it only hits 30fps, is it crossfire seriously this bad ?

 

[Nicolas145]

Here are the results of Unigine Heaven:

Crossfire:

Single Card:

 

[Nicolas145]

Make sure you run Furmark 1.9.2 and see if CFX is broken. uses gpu more than anything else.

as long as gpu usage across both cards together is at least 51% each then they are linked together.

In furmark, my first Radeon had 99% Load, while the other had 0%

 

[bystander]

Here are the results of Unigine Heaven:

Crossfire:

http://img806.imageshack.us/img806/605/00000k.jpg

Single Card:

http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/1372/00001k.jpg

Clearly crossfire is working, you have nearly double results with crossfire.

 

[bystander]

In furmark, my first Radeon had 99% Load, while the other had 0%

Was the test performed in fullscreen or windowed mode?

 

[MMO Fan]

Was the test performed in fullscreen or windowed mode?

clearly full screen he dam near doubled the frame rate Crossfire enabled was a success !

 

[bystander]

clearly full screen he dam near doubled the frame rate Crossfire enabled was a success !

I'm talking about his furmark test that showed 99% one card and 0% on the other. I understand the Unigine one clearly showed it worked.

 

[LiquidAMD]

Furmark must be fullscreen and 1.9.1 or older needed to be started with the cfx,sli option specifically (if i remember correctly).

1.9.2 works with multi gpu straight away.

Anyway heaven is showing scaling as it should.

 

[Guest]

I dont believe even a stock 6 core phenom II would be a bottleneck for 2 6870's.I ran gtx 470's in sli which are pretty close to the same performance as a 6870 and i wasnt even close to any kind of a bottleneck on a phenom 965 be 4 core stock

 

[bystander]

Crossfire works, now the question is what is causing Crysis issues. Has the game been fully patched?

 

[Nicolas145]

Crossfire works, now the question is what is causing Crysis issues. Has the game been fully patched?

Patch 1.2.1, the lastest.

 

[MMO Fan]

I dont believe even a stock 6 core phenom II would be a bottleneck for 2 6870's.I ran gtx 470's in sli which are pretty close to the same performance as a 6870 and i wasnt even close to any kind of a bottleneck on a phenom 965 be 4 core stock

StarCraft II, WoW, RTS games, Online shooters with bid maps and loots of players I dont know where all the regular Intel Trolls are but they can explain better of what a Phenom II can and will be a bottleneck in a multi cards setup.

 

[Guest]

Just cause your a fan boy does not mean you have to spread misinformation. FACT 6870 in a Crossfire configuration can and will be bottlenecked by a stock clocked Phenom II x6 whatever CPU

think again know way is that phenom bottlenecking 2 6870's not even close.i dont need to ask anyone i had a lesser cpu and it did not bottleneck 2 gtx 470's

 

[MMO Fan]

think again know way is that phenom bottlenecking 2 6870's not even close.i dont need to ask anyone i had a lesser cpu and it did not bottleneck 2 gtx 470's

Ya on an HD+ setup I would believe you are correct.

 

[bystander]

All that being said, I don't believe the CPU is going to bottleneck Crysis such a low FPS (30-35 FPS). Then again, if he has everything set to very high and high AA levels, then ya, it's going to get ugly.

 

[MMO Fan]

All that being said, I don't believe the CPU is going to bottleneck Crysis such a low FPS (30-35 FPS). Then against, if he has everything set to very high and high AA levels, then ya, it's going to get ugly.

55fps ish should be attainable in Crysis 2 it's not really a CPU hog game Online MP the Phenom II might crap the bed tho in Crysis 2

 

[Nicolas145]

All that being said, I don't believe the CPU is going to bottleneck Crysis such a low FPS (30-35 FPS). Then against, if he has everything set to very high and high AA levels, then ya, it's going to get ugly.

Everything Medium, Texture quality high, AA is off.

 

[flamingxeno]

try using the 32-bit version of crysis ive heard if you do that than crossfire will yield much better results

 

[MMO Fan]

I prominantly play online, and i will admit the Phenom II even at 4.0ghz was struggling with a single 480 in Blackops (low minimum and unstable fps) , BFBC2(big hits when maps are fully loaded), GTA IV (dips to 18fps), Need for speed shift(inconsistent fps).
The motherboard i own shows cpu temps on the post code LED.
CPU temps were consistently high in gaming where the cpu will load all 4 cores in these games.

Black Ops is a very UNOPTIMIZED game it is pathetic MW2 runs like butter on anything but blackops forget about it it some how uses lots of CPU and no much GPU power. GTA 4 is another famous CPU hog it does not really use much GPU horse power so long as you have more than 1gb Vram on the GPU and a fast assed CPU GTA 4 will run fine.

 

[MMO Fan]

Black ops was originally bad, but it is now well optimised.
The difference between my i5 and the 4.2ghz B55 now in that MSI board, is quite astounding with the same gpu's (GTX 480).
I have tested this and posted this before maybe 3 times, due to people not beleiving me

I don't care my monitor is 60hz LOL so...

 

[MMO Fan]

I am talking about minimum fps here not maximums.

My 955 can get mins of 60fps in all the game I own SO... I am GPU limited tho until the 6870 arrives.

 

[bystander]

55fps ish should be attainable in Crysis 2 it's not really a CPU hog game Online MP the Phenom II might crap the bed tho in Crysis 2

We've been talking Crysis, not Crysis 2.

 

[Guest]

That's odd because i had a 955 BE at 4.0ghz on my MSI 790FX-GD70 quad corssfire mobo.
A single GTX 480 is bottlenecked by it.
Quite a big difference going from AM3 to SB....

I dont buy this at all.I had a 965 be stock 3.4 ghz with 2x470 and never did i see my cpu come close to hitting 100%.you had something else going on there.I also know the difference i went from my phenom to an i5 2500k and i am saying 2 470's worked perfect in my 965 be

 

[bystander]

Everything Medium, Texture quality high, AA is off.

I've have seen Crysis crap out due to other problems. It seems fairly sensitive. I've seen Smartdoctor and Trixx kill FPS in Crysis.

Are you having this issue in any other game?

 

[MMO Fan]

Seems you do not like to listen to me?
Ok..
But yeah, there is a difference 60hz or not.
I run 60hz too, makes no difference.

Good for you with 60fps minimum, i am talking about total gpu load with maximum settings not 800x600 on low

800x600 would be even harder on the CPU when gaming cause the higher the resolution the less CPU is used and at HD+ resolutions the load is almost 100% on the GPU and not CPU even 1080P put most of the load on the GPU.

 

[Nicolas145]

I've have seen Crysis crap out due to other problems. It seems fairly sensitive. I've seen Smartdoctor and Trixx kill FPS in Crysis.

Are you having this issue in any other game?

Skyrim,Assassins Creed Revelations and BF3