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Eldeer Scrolls Skyrim Crossfire Broken?

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Marcdaddy

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Im running latest diver and Cap profile and in running 3 6970's in Tri-Fire im getting 20 to 30 FPS on Ultra settings and 30 to 40 on High, It must be broke becuz the game doesnt look that great...
 
Marcdaddy said:
Im running latest diver and Cap profile and in running 3 6970's in Tri-Fire im getting 20 to 30 FPS on Ultra settings and 30 to 40 on High, It must be broke becuz the game doesnt look that great...
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According to Kyle ' s write up last night, crossfire IS broken.
 
Yeah it seems that it is broken. One way to get CFX to work is to create a profile in RadeonPro for Skyrim and under the 'Tweaks' tab force a AFR-Friendly D3D Profile and set MVPU Mode to AFR (Alternate Frame Rendering). Give that a shot
 
For me, setting CFX Profile to Oblivion caused BSOD in the ati driver, so I'd be careful messing around with the profiles. Hopefully AMD will have a fix soon.
 
Ya I guess i can try Radeon Pro but im gonna settle in for a nice 4 hour run on BF3, Too bad i was really hoping to play Skyrim.
 
SaViOr- said:
Yeah it seems that it is broken. One way to get CFX to work is to create a profile in RadeonPro for Skyrim and under the 'Tweaks' tab force a AFR-Friendly D3D Profile and set MVPU Mode to AFR (Alternate Frame Rendering). Give that a shot
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Has anyone confirmed that this is working and what kind of fps are you getting and at what settings and resolution?
 
Lord_Exodia said:
Has anyone confirmed that this is working and what kind of fps are you getting and at what settings and resolution?
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I was reading through the [H] Performance & IQ Preview of Skyrim this morning and there were a few people in there that said using AFR-Friendly D3D CFX Profile within RadeonPro worked for them, as well as setting the mode to AFR.

IIRC one was running 1080P Ultra with 2 6950s (or something similar) getting 70-100fps. Sorry, I'm on my phone so can't go through the thread to quote the person exactly & I don't own the game :(. Some were also saying that Eyefinity/Surround wasn't working properly because the on-screen text was scaling with the resolution and wound up off the screen. Supposedly there are some .INI tweaks to turn Vsync off for AMD users since it doesn't work from CCC for some reason. Links are in the [H] thread.
 
SaViOr- said:
I was reading through the [H] Performance & IQ Preview of Skyrim this morning and there were a few people in there that said using AFR-Friendly D3D CFX Profile within RadeonPro worked for them, as well as setting the mode to AFR.

IIRC one was running 1080P Ultra with 2 6950s (or something similar) getting 70-100fps. Sorry, I'm on my phone so can't go through the thread to quote the person exactly & I don't own the game :(. Some were also saying that Eyefinity/Surround wasn't working properly because the on-screen text was scaling with the resolution and wound up off the screen. Supposedly there are some .INI tweaks to turn Vsync off for AMD users since it doesn't work from CCC for some reason. Links are in the [H] thread.
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I'll check it out thanks.
 
SaViOr- said:
Sorry, I'm on my phone so can't go through the thread to quote the person exactly & I don't own the game :(. Some were also saying that Eyefinity/Surround wasn't working properly because the on-screen text was scaling with the resolution and wound up off the screen. Supposedly there are some .INI tweaks to turn Vsync off for AMD users since it doesn't work from CCC for some reason. Links are in the [H] thread.
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Here is the post to fix crossfire scaling http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1038008507&postcount=57

Can someone try this who has dual card and post back what their single card fps was and what their fps was after using this profile in Radeon Pro.
 
kcmastrpc said:
Main system in sig, 30fps avg on Ultra - after RP 60fps avg on Ultra.
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WOooooowW that's 100% scaling... well at least for average. So you mean to tell me that noone on AMD's driver team could take an hour to test with radeon pro to find out that AFR friendly works for this game and release a quick CAP just before launch. That's just sloppy and poor support on their part. :(

Thanks for the info, I appreciate it. :)
 
2 6950s in cf mode about 30 fps whit rp i got about 35 no mater what profile i used whit cf off i get about 40ish
 
I'm using Radeon Pro with the Oblivion profile, 4xSSAA with everything else on Ultra plus .ini tweaks. Performance is usually around 45~80fps (uncapped fps), with the gpu's loaded at about 80% each. Without SSAA the gpu's loaded to around 45% and performance was 60~400fps but mainly sat around 100 or more.
 
LOL i have tried some of the tweaks and couldnt get it working, I was all hyped up to play but ill just wait for a Cap fix i suppose.
 
Marcdaddy said:
LOL i have tried some of the tweaks and couldnt get it working, I was all hyped up to play but ill just wait for a Cap fix i suppose.
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Marcdaddy, I just found out from forum poster DASHIT that the 11.12EB (early beta) driver works perectly fine with Skyim if your using 11.9 cap 4. Give it a try. He said he tried it himself and crossfire scaling is working perfectly. You can download the beta's here. Keep in mind they are beta drivers so your using them at your own risk
 
Lord as usual you are the Man! I laugh everytime yoou make a post on something cuz your always right ;)
 
Marcdaddy said:
Lord as usual you are the Man! I laugh everytime yoou make a post on something cuz your always right ;)
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Thanks marc, I try, credit if anything here should go to DASHIT. He's a cool dude and tested it and was able to confirm it for me. Glad your enjoying it dude. Now go pwn some dragons brother LOL :D
 
Well I am running a dual gpu 5970 with 11.10 catalyst and skyrim is running stable at constant 60 fps with ultra settings. I think it is capped at that level. No issues whatsoever. Even the little crossfire logo pops up in upper right of screen to indicate cfx is active. Not sure why a single card, dual gpu setup would be different than a two card cfx setup, maybe I'm just lucky?
 
dsa44 said:
Well I am running a dual gpu 5970 with 11.10 catalyst and skyrim is running stable at constant 60 fps with ultra settings. I think it is capped at that level. No issues whatsoever. Even the little crossfire logo pops up in upper right of screen to indicate cfx is active. Not sure why a single card, dual gpu setup would be different than a two card cfx setup, maybe I'm just lucky?
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Its may be active but not scaling well at all. I've seen both of GPU's doing work using MSI Afterburner, but the scaling just isn't there. If you use RadeonPro and enable the D3D AFR friendly crossfire profile, you'll see the difference with crossfire working properly.
 
Running 11.10 with out-of-the-box Skyrim was very choppy (25-30 FPS) on my dual 6950(70)s at 2560x1600 with ultra settings. After dropping in the .dll I'm getting 50-60 FPS, super smooth, with all "extra ultra" .ini tweaks applied.

As with a slew of recent high-profile titles, AMD dropped the ball bigtime on this one. I'm waiting with eager anticipation to replace my current cards with nV's 28nm card.
 
harmattan said:
Running 11.10 with out-of-the-box Skyrim was very choppy (25-30 FPS) on my dual 6950(70)s at 2560x1600 with ultra settings. After dropping in the .dll I'm getting 50-60 FPS, super smooth, with all "extra ultra" .ini tweaks applied.

As with a slew of recent high-profile titles, AMD dropped the ball bigtime on this one. I'm waiting with eager anticipation to replace my current cards with nV's 28nm card.
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I couldn't agree more.
Brand new AAA title and you have to jerry-rig your drivers because the three guys at AMD are too busy. Jesus.
 
Blkout said:
Its may be active but not scaling well at all. I've seen both of GPU's doing work using MSI Afterburner, but the scaling just isn't there. If you use RadeonPro and enable the D3D AFR friendly crossfire profile, you'll see the difference with crossfire working properly.
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OK, I will check out radeonpro and see what I find. I have not used it before and know that I must RTFM completely, but the only mention I saw regarding afterburner was this ..."loading of MSI Afterburner's overclock profiles". Just want to know if this will run side by side with my afterburner oc settings.
Thx
 
dsa44 said:
OK, I will check out radeonpro and see what I find. I have not used it before and know that I must RTFM completely, but the only mention I saw regarding afterburner was this ..."loading of MSI Afterburner's overclock profiles". Just want to know if this will run side by side with my afterburner oc settings.
Thx
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RadeonPro is just for game profile settings, it won't affect any overclocking settings. I use it with Afterburner on every game. After you install RadeonPro, you'll just need to create a game profile for Skyrim then you can tweak whatever options you like but the one you're looking for is under the tweaks tab, you'll select crossfire profiles, then D3D AFR friendly. This will enable crossfire and works fine with the only issue being that one of the game menus flashes with this tweak enabled, but its not anything that will affect your gameplay, and all other menus work fine. This will work just fine until ATI fixes the crossfire profile this week with new drivers.
 
harmattan said:
Running 11.10 with out-of-the-box Skyrim was very choppy (25-30 FPS) on my dual 6950(70)s at 2560x1600 with ultra settings. After dropping in the .dll I'm getting 50-60 FPS, super smooth, with all "extra ultra" .ini tweaks applied.

As with a slew of recent high-profile titles, AMD dropped the ball bigtime on this one. I'm waiting with eager anticipation to replace my current cards with nV's 28nm card.
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You do realize that you're getting ~100% scaling (granted with a 3rd party fix) and are saying that makes you want to jump to another brand that can offer you ~46% scaling on day one (according to the [H] review)? Call me crazy but it seems like neither one of the GPU manufacturers really is producing quality multicard drivers on day one for this title.
 
Blkout said:
Its may be active but not scaling well at all. I've seen both of GPU's doing work using MSI Afterburner, but the scaling just isn't there. If you use RadeonPro and enable the D3D AFR friendly crossfire profile, you'll see the difference with crossfire working properly.
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When you say "see the difference" are you referring to graphically (visually) or to technically via osd? I created a profile both with AFR friendly D3D enabled and with no CFX tweak enabled, and both launched and showed 60 fps and graphically displayed activity on both cores with the cfx "bar". I then deleted the profile altogether and launched the game direct from hard drive and the cfx bar still showed activity on both cores and fps again at 60. I wish I knew what I did or set, but it sure seems like cfx is enabled and working even without the tweaks of radeonpro. Even FRAPS shows steady 60 fps. So I guess I should be happy!
 
dsa44 said:
When you say "see the difference" are you referring to graphically (visually) or to technically via osd? I created a profile both with AFR friendly D3D enabled and with no CFX tweak enabled, and both launched and showed 60 fps and graphically displayed activity on both cores with the cfx "bar". I then deleted the profile altogether and launched the game direct from hard drive and the cfx bar still showed activity on both cores and fps again at 60. I wish I knew what I did or set, but it sure seems like cfx is enabled and working even without the tweaks of radeonpro. Even FRAPS shows steady 60 fps. So I guess I should be happy!
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You'll notice a difference in fps using any monitoring tool. Adjust the detail level up to Ultra if your PC can run it and you'll see the difference between no crossfire profile and using RadeonPro D3D AFR friendly tweak. The fps is considerably better using the D3D AFR friendly tweak.
 
Anyone figure out how to get triple crossfire such that all three gpus are working in Skyrim as I can only get two of three gpus working..

Thanks
 
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