Crossfire Question

[Liquidkristal]

ok, so its been ages since I decided to have a 1/2 decent games machine, so yesterday was upgrade day and all went well, however I have spotted something (which may be nothing) while playing Eve.

My setup is as follows (relevent sections):

Mainboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3
CPU: AMD Phenom FX6100 3.3Ghz (Black)
GFX: 2 x Asus EAH6850 GFX (Connected with x-fire)
2 x Dell FP2001's running off the card in the topmost x16 PCI-e slot

Now I am monitoring it with MSI Afterburner (Same GPU / Controller witchcraft), now when I open anything graphically intensive, 1 card heats up and works for a living while the other one sits there (even with 2 eve clients running (1 on each screen)), is this normal, or is there a tickbox I need to find?

 

[GotNoRice]

1 on each screen?

Unfortunately that probably means you are running at least one of the clients in windowed mode. Crossfire simply does not function unless the game you are running is being played in fullscreen (aka not windowed, not even a maximized window).

So in that respect, the behavior you are seeing is normal.

 

[qbanb8582]

Yup its all normal crossfire doesn't function in a window at all. One thing you could try is possibly taking them out of crossfire and connecting a monitor to each card and run them on different screens.

 

[Liquidkristal]

hit the nail on the head. running in windowed mode.

I'll try full screen mode and see how that goes.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

even with eve i'd just leave it running on 1 card, its not like you actually need both cards running to power eve, i mean heck a single 8800GT gets 60fps maxed out at 1920x1200(40-45fps with 2 clients). pretty sure a 6850 has no problems running 2 clients.

but yeah the above posts already mentioned why the crossfire wasn't working.