Making Crossfire Work and Optimization

erocker · Apr 27, 2008

Craigleberry said:
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 · Apr 27, 2008

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 · Apr 27, 2008

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

erocker · Apr 27, 2008

One for each display output.

cdawall · Apr 27, 2008

erocker said:
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 · Apr 28, 2008

and its gone again :shadedshu

Dr. Spankenstein · Apr 28, 2008

Are you OCing the cards at all? though CCC?

cdawall · Apr 28, 2008

tried with and without still locks

piebobs71 · Apr 28, 2008

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 · Apr 28, 2008

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 · Apr 28, 2008

asb2106 said:
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 · Apr 28, 2008

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

CY:G · Apr 28, 2008

cdawall said:
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 · Apr 28, 2008

anyone know why xfire would randomly enable/disable itself?

asb2106 · Apr 28, 2008

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 · Apr 28, 2008

cdawall said:
anyone know why xfire would randomly enable/disable itself?

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

grunt_408 · Apr 28, 2008

piebobs71 said:
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 · Apr 30, 2008

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 · Apr 30, 2008

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 · Apr 30, 2008

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 · Apr 30, 2008

Try using GPU-Z?

Wonderloaf · Apr 30, 2008

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 · May 1, 2008

Wonderloaf said:
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 · May 1, 2008

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 · May 1, 2008

Wonderloaf said:
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.

Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Motherboard	ASUS TUF x670e
Cooling	EK AIO 360. Phantek T30 fans.
Memory	32GB G.Skill 6000Mhz
Video Card(s)	Asus RTX 4090
Storage	WD m.2
Display(s)	LG C2 Evo OLED 42"
Case	Lian Li PC 011 Dynamic Evo
Audio Device(s)	Topping E70 DAC, SMSL SP200 Headphone Amp.
Power Supply	FSP Hydro Ti PRO 1000W
Mouse	Razer Basilisk V3 Pro
Keyboard	Tester84
Software	Windows 11

Processor	AMD Athlon FX-60 @ 2.6ghz
Motherboard	ASUS A8R32MVP-Deluxe
Cooling	TT Golden Orb II + Arctic Cooling Mx-2
Memory	Mushkin 3 x 1gb DDR400 Value Ram
Video Card(s)	2x Asus EAX1950PRO 256mb 256bit
Storage	400GB Seagate NL32.5 SATAII
Display(s)	Samsung SyncMaster 226BW
Case	CoolerMaster Ammo 533
Audio Device(s)	On Board
Power Supply	FSP Epsilon GLN600FX + FSP BoosterX3 300w
Software	MS Windows Vista Business 32bit
Benchmark Scores	X1950PRO Crossfire 3dMark 06 - Default - 7234

System Name	All the cores
Processor	2990WX
Motherboard	Asrock X399M
Cooling	CPU-XSPC RayStorm Neo, 2x240mm+360mm, D5PWM+140mL, GPU-2x360mm, 2xbyski, D4+D5+100mL
Memory	4x16GB G.Skill 3600
Video Card(s)	(2) EVGA SC BLACK 1080Ti's
Storage	2x Samsung SM951 512GB, Samsung PM961 512GB
Display(s)	Dell UP2414Q 3840X2160@60hz
Case	Caselabs Mercury S5+pedestal
Audio Device(s)	Fischer HA-02->Fischer FA-002W High edition/FA-003/Jubilate/FA-011 depending on my mood
Power Supply	Seasonic Prime 1200w
Mouse	Thermaltake Theron, Steam controller
Keyboard	Keychron K8
Software	W10P

Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Motherboard	ASUS TUF x670e
Cooling	EK AIO 360. Phantek T30 fans.
Memory	32GB G.Skill 6000Mhz
Video Card(s)	Asus RTX 4090
Storage	WD m.2
Display(s)	LG C2 Evo OLED 42"
Case	Lian Li PC 011 Dynamic Evo
Audio Device(s)	Topping E70 DAC, SMSL SP200 Headphone Amp.
Power Supply	FSP Hydro Ti PRO 1000W
Mouse	Razer Basilisk V3 Pro
Keyboard	Tester84
Software	Windows 11

System Name	All the cores
Processor	2990WX
Motherboard	Asrock X399M
Cooling	CPU-XSPC RayStorm Neo, 2x240mm+360mm, D5PWM+140mL, GPU-2x360mm, 2xbyski, D4+D5+100mL
Memory	4x16GB G.Skill 3600
Video Card(s)	(2) EVGA SC BLACK 1080Ti's
Storage	2x Samsung SM951 512GB, Samsung PM961 512GB
Display(s)	Dell UP2414Q 3840X2160@60hz
Case	Caselabs Mercury S5+pedestal
Audio Device(s)	Fischer HA-02->Fischer FA-002W High edition/FA-003/Jubilate/FA-011 depending on my mood
Power Supply	Seasonic Prime 1200w
Mouse	Thermaltake Theron, Steam controller
Keyboard	Keychron K8
Software	W10P

Processor	Intel C2D E8500 @ 4.25GHz (1.36V)
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6
Cooling	(Temporary) Tuniq Tower 120
Memory	2GB Transcend aXeram 1200+
Video Card(s)	HIS HD3870 CF Volt modded
Storage	3 Seagate 320Gb Barracuda in an Intel Matrix Raid array
Display(s)	Sony GDM-FW900 24" Widescreen CRT (a.k.a "The Shiznotch")
Case	Ultra Aluminus Full Tower
Audio Device(s)	onboard Intel HD audio
Power Supply	PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750
Software	XP MCE + Vista (HP) dual-boot

Processor	Amd x2 6000+ 3.24ghz,
Motherboard	Asus M2R32 MVP
Cooling	CPU Asus Silent Knight II,gfx cards stock cooling
Memory	4gb Crucial Ballistix pc2 6400 800mhz(3gb ish in win 32)
Video Card(s)	3870 sapphire heatpipe version+powercolor 3870 extreme
Storage	160gb sata maxtor
Display(s)	LG L204WS 20" Widescreen
Case	Antec P180
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent
Software	Win XP 32

System Name	File Server
Processor	2600k
Motherboard	idk
Cooling	H110
Memory	20gb of something
Video Card(s)	onboard!
Storage	2x120 SSD, (5x8tb)+(3x4tb) = 35 TB Z1 pool
Display(s)	couple 4k 32s
Case	cooler master something i think
Audio Device(s)	does anyone bother with anything but onboard?
Power Supply	Whatever OCZ PC Powercooling became. 1200 modular setup
Mouse	MX Master 2x
Keyboard	G710
Software	FreeNAS

System Name	CYGNUS X4
Processor	Intel i7 2600k @ 3.6Ghz
Motherboard	Asus p8p67Pro
Cooling	ThermalRight Ultra 120 Extreme
Memory	2 * 4GB DDR 3 1600MHz = 8GB
Video Card(s)	2 * 6950 2GB In Crossfire and a 3870
Storage	2 * 640 GB WD AAKS in RAID 0
Display(s)	4 * 24" Dell LCDs
Case	Cooler Master Cosmos
Power Supply	Corsair HX650

System Name	All Ryze
Processor	Ryzen 7 1700
Motherboard	MSI X370 Pro Carbon
Cooling	Air
Memory	G-skill Flare x 16GB 2400MHz
Video Card(s)	MSI 1080
Storage	Intel 600p NVMe 512GB for OS , 1TB WD Black and a 4TB Toshiba
Display(s)	BENQ PD3200U
Case	Phanteks
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Corsair 750W
Mouse	Logitech G403 wired
Keyboard	G19
Software	Win 10 Pro

Processor	Intel Q9300
Motherboard	Asus P5K3 DLX
Cooling	standard
Memory	2GB Crosair DDR3
Video Card(s)	HD 2900 XT times 2
Storage	Western digital serial ata's
Display(s)	Dell 19" LCD
Case	Coolermaster
Audio Device(s)	onboard
Power Supply	750W supply
Software	Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit

System Name	My i7 Beast
Processor	Intel Core i7 6800K
Motherboard	Asus X99-A II
Cooling	Nickel-plated EK Supremacy EVO, D5 with XSPC Bayres & BIX Quad Radiator
Memory	4 x 8GB EVGA SuperSC DDR4-3200
Video Card(s)	EVGA 1080 SuperClocked
Storage	Samsung 950 Pro 256GB m.2 SSD + 480GB Sandisk storage SSD
Display(s)	Three Asus 24" VW246H LCD's
Case	Silverstone TJ07
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Corsair AX1200
Keyboard	Corsair K95
Software	Windows 10 x64 Pro

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