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7950 crossfire and bf 4?

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Thinking of adding a 7950 to my sys. Does crossfire work ok with the 7950s and bf 4 or shiuld i look at staying w a single gpu? thanks
 
Your experience may vary but after the China Rising DLC I found I couldn't play Battlefield 4 if I had crossfire enabled (game would crash within 10-15s of joining a server). Perhaps that's been fixed now though, as I'm sure there are some people that do it successfully.
 
These days it comes down to which windows your running.. I wouldn't throw all the blame at DICE as the game was built for windows 8 and for me as always ran great even with crossfire 7950's on a x58 platform with 8 and 8.1 64bit.

Windows 7 is where most of the issues came from for lacking DX 11.1
 
Windows 8 was used in my case, using a pair of HD6970s - I tried 4 or 5 different driver versions, reinstalling the game and reinstalling windows to no avail - afterwards I just settled for it being a single-GPU title.
 
fanboy said:
These days it comes down to which windows your running.. I wouldn't throw all the blame at DICE as the game was built for windows 8 and for me as always ran great even with crossfire 7950's on a x58 platform with 8 and 8.1 64bit.

Windows 7 is where most of the issues came from for lacking DX 11.1
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Yeah I don't buy that when Win 7 is 52% and Win 8 is 12% of the OS user base (%'s are today, when BF4 was released it was likely much lower). You don't make a game for an OS just being released and you have no idea about the adoption rate. Not like Windows has a great history of flawless OS's either.

You don't expect people buying a $60 game to upgrade their OS. That's asinine.
 
It had to do with how to game used your cpu as windows 8 used buffers that was part of DX 11.1 as windows 7 lacked this and everyone was being core parked ..

(Win 7 is 52%) is just the new XP that no one will let die and Microsoft will be moving forward without it but they plan to let windows 8 users move with them.
 
so 8 works best for crossfire. Cool. I need to get a ssd anyway. Probably just getting the ssd and win 8 should provide a smooth enough experience. Atm i get fine fps but weird frame drops and just a jittery screen at times.
 
With good reason. Windows 7 is a far more user-friendly operating system, it's far more suitable for businesses, and is generally much less of a nuisance to support. For whatever reason my monitor doesn't seem to work properly with Win7, only Win8, but having got used to the interface (though admittedly I'm a ClassicShell user) I'm fine with it these days. The only thing I object to is since I own an 8.0 license whenever I reinstall I need to do 8 first which takes about 20 minutes, then 8.1 on the top which takes hours... :S

I would like to point out the issues I had with crossfire and BF4 were with Windows 8 as well, but they were admittedly with HD6970s, so not current-gen hardware.
 
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