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Any info on sli/xfire
Praor
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Anyone in beta try a sli/xfire setup ? or any info if its going to be fully utilized ? I'm gonna be running a 5870 but leaning towards getting another .
Waiting on Guild Wars 2
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Last I heard on the forums was that it does run in sli/xfire in full screen mode...not windowed.
Thats good to know then, running 2-5870s should provide a smooth and eye catching experience. I was thinking about running 2 gtx 480s but that would probably melt the case and my monitor lol.
Waiting on Guild Wars 2
I recently got my 5870 and I love it...i probably would have waited for a 480 if I had the time, but I'm glad I didnt...seeing SLI power consumption on 2 or 3 of those things would kill me with how long I can sit at my PC playing games. My 5870 was able to run XIV pretty much maxed out with a little hiccup here and there...depending on where I was, I may get another myself....I really like the card
1. Liquid cool both 480s
2. See temps drop 50%
3. Overclock both cards
4. ??
5. Blow your brains out because you cant handle the awesome.
Edit: also see bank account zero out.
What CPU do you have? Unless it's a highly clocked i7 I think you'd probably be CPU limited from what I've seen so far.Oh, and 5870s have been known to have xfire scaling issues.
Good to know... I'm running Gforce 275gtx@2
5870 in crossfire is wayy overkill for this game.
Not if you want to use their currently implemented ambient occlusion at maxed settings. Or if you're playing with something higher than 1920x1200, a 30'' inch monitor or triple screens.
This is my post from gamefaqs which half of was snipped from the beta forums as I note. I had working crossfire the last few days of beta because of this with my 4870's bumping my field fps up 20 to nearly always capped 60, +10-15 by crystals and nearly no change in town when around a bunch of people(christ, easy on my processor XIV). I know they're supposed to have crossfire working with the benchmark now with the updated drivers but I don't know if they plan to have the beta working already, so if it's not, try this out in a couple days.
Following the first set of instructions didn't get it to work for me, not for longer than a minute or two. However going around fixing bits and pieces in my second paragraph did, and it worked for the last few hours I played lastnight.
From the Beta Forums-
Warning: Sometimes the client doesn't load in right, just exit the game and relog and your screen will sync better, it has to do with the Crossfire not syncing properly, sometimes I got right in with no problems, others it would not fire up right
1. Downloaded RadeonPro
2. Installed RadeonPro
3. Opened RadeonPro and clicked on "Add new profile"
4. Pointed the new profile to C:Program Files (x86)SquareEnixFINAL FANTASY XIV Beta Versionffxivgame.exe
5. Clicked on Advanced Tab, Checked Catalyst AI and set it to Advanced, Clicked on CrossfireX Settings at the bottom (you can make it show the logo when its in use if you want, I don't because it goes right where I want my minimap)
6. Clicked on the Tweaks Tab, Changed MVPU mode to "Alternate Frame Rendering"
*End Result* I am able to play 30FPS Fullscreen at 1920x1200, 8x AA, Window Size Buffer, Highest Shadows, Ambient Occulusion=on, depth of field=on
**Without this trick? Same settings only get me about 14-16FPS
Ok so after following the instructions there, I went into the CCC and turned the catalyst AI to advanced. I also went to global on the radeonpro program and changed the crossfire settings there(on, alternate frame rendering). Back to the ffxiv profile setting in radeonpro and in the launcher tab I put in ffxivboot.exe. Also turned my second monitor off just incase. Voila working crossfire for hours.
well i can tell you the ff14 benchmark program doesnt use sli at all atm, i fiddled with every possible variation of sli and 3d settings in forced nvidia 3d setting use mode with the benchmarker in 3d programs list, no difference sli on off recommended or force frame 1 or 2. while the benchamerker ran smooth enough on its high settings in either res (and my laptops native is 1680 1050) it only scored around 1k on a system with a 3 ghz intel core 2 duo, 4 gigs ddr2 ram, sli 8800 gtx 512s, 700 gigs of hard drive @ 7200 rpm (would be faster but im not buying a ssd and laptop hard drives dont come in raptor hehe). anywho point being you cant tune the benchmark for sli at all yet, even having 1 card for physix one for devoted game to 1 screen didnt help (not sure if ff14 even uses physix or will). hopefully the game will allow more then 2 resolutions, or at least adjust the 2 given to run in full screen when they arent your natives.
To get sli to run on the benchmark, rename it Crysis.exe and grab the dll file floating around on ffxiv forums(d3d9.dll I think) and drop it in the same folder as the exe to force it full screen. You used to have to rename it for crossfire to work(3DMark06.exe) but the latest drivers/profiles work for it now so you can leave it regular, not sure if there is anything official yet from nvidia.