Making Crossfire Work and Optimization

[erocker]

I did a re install of the lot. I formated the hdd and install windows from scratch. Still Crossfire not kicking in!!!! I hate these cards

I think you either have a bad card or a bad crossfire bridge. Have you tried testing each card individually?

 

[gtoforce]

CF-X on ATI Xpress 3200 chipset

dudes
can a board with ATI Xpress 3200 Chipset run Crossfire X?
mine is ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe
in ATI site, it says it can, what more im crossfiring my X1950PRO on CAT 8.4 which says enable crossfire X
but can it do say, 3850 or 3870 in CF-X?
i dont wanna upgrade cuz im lazy to change my fx-60
plus, fx-60 can still play the latest games at ease
but i want dx 10.1 for future proofing and some people in my country are selling 3870XT 512mb at USD160 each (in my country its RM512)
what do u think?

 

[cdawall]

silly quetion why are 4 cards showing up on the CCC popup only 2 in CCC but 4 here?

 

[erocker]

One for each display output.

 

[cdawall]

One for each display output.

ahh makes sense oh BTW i finally got xfire working idk how and honestly i dont card but it does woot

 

[cdawall]

and its gone again :shadedshu

 

[Dr. Spankenstein]

Are you OCing the cards at all? though CCC?

 

[cdawall]

tried with and without still locks

 

[piebobs71]

ive noticed with my crossfire setup using two different speed cards that if i reboot and the fan on the powercolor extreme spins at 100% crossfire doesnt work ,reboot again and fan back to normal crossfire works.one of the reasons i was thinking of bios flashing the faster card to the slower cards speed but it only does it rarely so will probably just leave it for now.

 

[asb2106]

ok guys, this could be a stupid question, but I was hoping you could help......

I made some room on the desk for another monitor, and I have a 17" LCD Im not using, so I figured I would throw it in the mix.

I have not even attempted it, as it will probably turn out easy,

but to get 3 displays working on a crossfire setup, do I have to disable crossfire? From what I have seen if you xfire the cards the second cards output becomes unusable? Am I wrong?

 

[CY:G]

ok guys, this could be a stupid question, but I was hoping you could help......

I made some room on the desk for another monitor, and I have a 17" LCD Im not using, so I figured I would throw it in the mix.

I have not even attempted it, as it will probably turn out easy,

but to get 3 displays working on a crossfire setup, do I have to disable crossfire? From what I have seen if you xfire the cards the second cards output becomes unusable? Am I wrong?

You are not wrong, i have 3 monitors as well and if i activate Xfire the monitor on the second video card turns itself off..., its no biggie really, i just close all those apps running on that monitor -> enable crossfire -> game -> disable crossfire....

It is a hassle, but you get used to it.

 

[cdawall]

you could just set up 2 profiles and switch between the 2

 

[CY:G]

you could just set up 2 profiles and switch between the 2

Yeah i have to play with the profiles, right now im doing everything manually...

 

[cdawall]

anyone know why xfire would randomly enable/disable itself?

 

[asb2106]

cool !

Honestly, I rarely game anymore

I spend most of my time on a computer doing speadsheets(damn office work!) or ripping media, or other things around the computer.

Thanks guys

 

[asb2106]

anyone know why xfire would randomly enable/disable itself?

mine does that from time to time after a cold boot, its odd

 

[grunt_408]

ive noticed with my crossfire setup using two different speed cards that if i reboot and the fan on the powercolor extreme spins at 100% crossfire doesnt work ,reboot again and fan back to normal crossfire works.one of the reasons i was thinking of bios flashing the faster card to the slower cards speed but it only does it rarely so will probably just leave it for now.

I have noticed my sapphire spinning @100 percent a couple times and my powercolour idling away. especially when I boot up and before I got the powercolour I dont think the sapphire had ever been to 100 percent. I think the problem is with the Bios.
My crossfire works. Most games I get screen corruption while the game is loading up eg. the spalsh screen and welcome screen in bf2 but once loaded into a map its fine. wtf??? Disabling Cat A.I fixes the problem. It could be a faulty crossfire bridge I will have to try swapping them around with another one to find out.

 

[Wonderloaf]

Hi guys,

Firstly an apoligy as i'm a noob to xfire!

I've just installed a second hd2900xt on my asus board and i can't seem to get xfire to work? Two cards show in device manager, but i can only see one in catalyst? Of the one i can see, it only shows me one card? I've put the cards in correctly and installed both of the x fire bridges...

Am i doing something wrong? I've enabled xfire in catalyst but still no joy?

Any help would be most welcome!

Paul

 

[t_ski]

If both cards are configured for CrossFire, and the box for "Enable CrossFire" is checked in CCC, it should only show the one card in CCC. If it shows more than one card, it usually means CrossFire isn't working.

Did you run some benchmarks to see if there was a score difference? IIRC, there's a Shader (?) test in 3DM06 that should show an increase from one card to two cards, even if by some chance the CPU wasn't strong enough to push both cards.

 

[Wonderloaf]

Hi mate,

Thanks for the reply!

I tried to run 3d mark 06, but it simply won't workfor me? As soon as i run the program i get an error saying OpenAL32.dll is not found.

Game wise i notice no difference in either crysis or cod 4?

Paul

 

[erocker]

Try using GPU-Z?

 

[Wonderloaf]

Hi!

Just tried cpuz, shows both cards, but says xfire is disabled? However its enabled in catalyst?

One card is running bus interface PCI-E x16 @ 16
other is PCI-E x16 @ 4

All other settings are the same?

Again sorry for being a total NOOOOB!!!


Cheers,

Paul

 

[Dr. Spankenstein]

Hi mate,

Thanks for the reply!

I tried to run 3d mark 06, but it simply won't workfor me? As soon as i run the program i get an error saying OpenAL32.dll is not found.

Game wise i notice no difference in either crysis or cod 4?

Paul

There is an installation that occurs during the Futurmark 3DMark06 for OpenAL. You most likely chose not to install not knowing that it was critical for 3DM to run.

Install again.

 

[cdawall]

ok i just had xfire up and running just fine (required stock clocks to work) but now nothing i have rebooted shut down and powered back and still no xfire....this is very annoying im on cats 8.4 in XP 32 think i should try cat 8.2?

 

[grunt_408]

Hi!

Just tried cpuz, shows both cards, but says xfire is disabled? However its enabled in catalyst?

One card is running bus interface PCI-E x16 @ 16
other is PCI-E x16 @ 4

All other settings are the same?

Again sorry for being a total NOOOOB!!!


Cheers,

Paul

You must have a p35 chipset?
I have my crossfire working on my p35 it took a bit to get it going (with help from Dr Spankenstien) GPU-z will not tell you if crossfire is working or not.