What is going on? when I enable XFire, my FPS dives, especially with 3 screens which is what I want to run with (5760x1200) ! NB: I have CAP2/profiles etc installed and running AMD driver 13.1 (WHQL, not beta) All tests with max Settings (everythinng max, all boxes ticked) in PS2 NO CrossFire 1920x1080 :40-50 fps 5760x1200 :25 fps With CrossFire (this is where I expect at least 1.5x to 2x performance) 1920x1080 :25-40 fps 5760x1200 :20 fps <<<THIS IS NOT PLAYABLE FPS for me. Not sure if I need to go buy a) new video cards, top of the line 680/7970 or even a 690 or ARES II ? - great have to spend another $500+ on top of the $700-800 already spent! b) better RAM c) i7 3770 CPU? FYI - My System Build CPU : i5-3570k (3.4GHz std clock) Video : PowerColor 7950 3GB x2 (Pcie 3.0, 800Mhz Core, 1250MHz Ram - stock speeds) http://www.powercolor.com/au/products_features.asp?id=387 RAM : 32GB G.Skill Ares F3-1600C10Q-32GAOB (4x8GB) DDR3 MB : MSI Z77A-GD80 with Thunderbolt SSD : SanDisk Extreme 240GB HDD : Hitachi 7200 3GB Power : Antec High Current Gamer 900W HCG-900 Monitor : DELL U2412M x3
What's your bottleneck? Where are you taking the FPS readings from (warpgate, in a fight?) Have you at least done ALT-F to show FPS in game which will tell you if you're CPU or GPU bottlenecked? I would think the graphics cards are not your problem and it's your CPU. I run crossfire and a 4.8ghz OCed processor and almost always i'm CPU bottlenecked. My GPUs usually run 60-70% on ultra settings if that. Unlike every other game you've ever used your crossfire on PS2 is extremely CPU dependant.
Going into Crossfire/SLI does not necessarily mean that you will get a boost in FPS, some games are just not optimized for dual GPU set ups, and in the extreme cases - your FPS will decrease. So just keep one GPU disabled for now until the Crossfire Profiles or Planetside itself is updated to increase compatability, and you'll be right. Also, the FoV is horrendous in those high resolutions, so don't bother playing like that. Sorry
FYI : So the FPS readings I took were in heated battle (same location - Ti Alloys/Crown on Indar). I repeated this testing 2x over to make sure I was getting consistency), a few fps (20 or so) down from WG.
Go to your control center and go to application profiles and find the planetside2.exe not the launcher and set the AMD Crossfire to AFR Friendly and see if that helps
I looked at the FPS reading in PS when you press ALT+F, says GPU all the time, so I guess its GPU problem not CPU. I found some tips that said to set AFR as well, just like you said above and set most things to Application Decides & tripple buffering on. This gave about a 10fps boost so i was realy happy seeing it up at 30fps+, but then I got into a big battle on Amerish, FPS was as low as 9 FPS... I think Crossfire is toast with my GPU setup... thinking its going to have to be 7970 x 2 or GTX 690....to have a chance at driving 5760x1200
The code monkey has say, the game can't know it is GPU bound by what. So it might be the driver issues, or the GPU hardware issues.
I have 7970m's in an alienware m18x laptop, and I get around 45-60 fps with one gpu enabled. Both enabled I get around 35-40 fps, but the game really seems to studder more than that number indicates. I tried the switching to AFR Friendly, disabling amd optimized tessellation, and triple button. With that configuration I get around 10-15 fps with crossfire enabled. I've been experimenting with different combinations of settings and will post back if I achieve any good results.
Its pretty much the same i experience with 680 sli. Keep crossfire disabled and / or overclock your cpu as much as you can, while still having good temperatures.
