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AMD Catalyst "Frame Pacing" Driver Results Thread

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CrossfireX isn't working for me in Far Cry 3, GPU2 just sits at 0% and the game runs like a piece of metal in a blender. :(
 
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Historically, FC3 has run terribly for everyone even with a single GPU. I'd just like to know why there is zero Crossfire scaling in this game when I thought CF at least worked.
 
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Hi

Historically, FC3 has run terribly for everyone even with a single GPU. I'd just like to know why there is zero Crossfire scaling in this game when I thought CF at least worked.

Aside from Catalyst 13.8 being a public beta and not final release Whql; when looking at the crossfire profiles farcry3 has an "*" next to it and may have been disabled/modified untill a later date

Note: If not already done so; please give feedback to AMD Driver team here

Try setting a custom profile; maybe use a generic benchmark profile or AFR-CompatibleD3D as a workaround untill the drive is fixed

atb (all the best)

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Historically, FC3 has run terribly for everyone even with a single GPU. I'd just like to know why there is zero Crossfire scaling in this game when I thought CF at least worked.

I disagree with that comment. On My 6950 1Gb, FC3 has (for the MOST part ) run VERY well at almost ALL times. However, on My other machine, with a 7970LCS (Otherwise Almost Exactly the same), it doesn't perform much better. Which, considering the level of performance ability between the 6950-and the 7970, it SHOULD, So I agree, and Disagree with your statement. IMO, it has ALOT to do with your graphic settings. which in the early days of FC3 release where VERY buggy, been a while since I've played it, but it DID run well for Me. I Believe I ran CCC12.10
 
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Hi guys,

did anyone had some experience with xfire 6870 ( or 6850 for that matter ) in newer games like Far Cry 3 or Crysis 3? how is the microsttuter for the Barts series?
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Hi guys,

did anyone had some experience with xfire 6870 ( or 6850 for that matter ) in newer games like Far Cry 3 or Crysis 3? how is the microsttuter for the Barts series?
Thanks

I don't seem to notice it on DX10 and 11 games. For the most part, I would say that AMD did a fairly good job. I haven't tried Farcry 3 since though.
 
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Thanks for the prompt answer; if that's the case I'm very tempted to buy another " companion " for my aging 6870 cause it's so much cheaper than buying something like a Tahiti card ( even the 7950 ).
My curent system is Q9550 E0 @ 3.5-4GHz + 1x HD6870 but if I add another 6870 I don't know if my Seasonic MII 620W would be able to keep up.
My projection is that an older generation OC'ed quadcore with 2x 6870 would take around 400-420W in highest load so the Seasonic with 82-85% efficiency should theoretically cope with the scenario or what do you think?
 
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Supposedly framepacing wasnt a big issue until the 7xxx cards (CGN 1.0)

The old VLIW architecture didnt have the same problems.

They fixed it in hardware on the 290/290x
 
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