In bios I changed the settings to pcie 2.0 just to see what happens I don't get any issues when I run Crossfire 2 Cards. as long as its Card 1 in Slot 16x and Card 2 in Slot 8x but if I try using Card 3 with either first or second card I get issues. Most things I read say they get problems with Cfx in general. I'm using 5 screens as well. 5 screens CFx no problem, trifire I get a freeze. so it seems the only time I get issues is when im using my third card. any other configuration results in 0 problems everything runs smooth for hours.
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Radeon HD 7970 CrossfrieX Issues
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Didn't help me either.
I installed the new 12.11 beta3 drivers and i got my Full Freeze back 
everything was running so smooth but i did also updated to the latest bios 3010 i think... both at once ... that was a bad idea but i was just so excited when i saw new stuff, so now I'm not sure which ruined it
everything was running so smooth but i did also updated to the latest bios 3010 i think... both at once ... that was a bad idea but i was just so excited when i saw new stuff, so now I'm not sure which ruined it
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Ditto!
the only problem i had and still have with any driver (using 12.10 now) is if I leave the UPLS enable... when my second card jumps in sometimes my system crash and I need to shut down,unplug the crossfire bridge, turn on pc, log on windows, then shut down, plug it back, turn the pc on and enable crossfire back on control centre.
If i leave UPLS disable I don't have any problems.
If i leave UPLS disable I don't have any problems.
I dont know how it happened but i played at least an hour with trifire on with no freezes... i had latest bios 3010, latest CCC 12.11 beta4, and everything was on PCI-e2.0 (in bios). Although scaling was not that great... it was decent but i think something happened when i changed maps in gw2 cuz my fps dropped a lot... although when i was playing it was around 60 with everything maxed so i was pleasantly surprised. maybe i just got lucky this time... will try again tonight.
On one or two occasions I got to play on my CrossfireX 7970 setup for about an hour. I started to wonder if I was in the clear because I had usually only had it work for 45 minutes max. But the problems returned anyway. For some reason it goes beyond the normal time frame once in awhile.
I had no problems using one monitor with CrossfireX. I only had problems when Eyefinity was enabled.
I haven't. That would be interesting to see and if I still had two AMD Radeon HD 7970's I'd be game for trying that. I have doubts that things would be different under that OS as I suspect hardware or firmware are the culprits of this issue. But that would make for an interesting experiment.
So I installed Win8 yesterday, downloaded Skyrim, and played for a while. It eventually locked up, but did so in a slightly different manner. The audio loop didn't happen, and I was able to ctrl-alt-del out of the app, but couldn't click on anything or use the keyboard to navigate through task manager to force quit the app. Hitting shutdown from the c-a-d screen killed Skyrim and then prompted me to save a document I had open in another app, at which point I was able to regain full access to my system. This is only one datapoint and I need to do further testing. I've installed superf4 with hopes that I might be able to use that to force kill a hung game.
If this holds out, while it's certainly not an ideal situation, it's loads better than having to power cycle my system every time a game hangs. More details as I test more tonight.
If this holds out, while it's certainly not an ideal situation, it's loads better than having to power cycle my system every time a game hangs. More details as I test more tonight.
I've been doing all my testing on Win 8 ... and I get both that situation, and sometimes i have to hold the power button down. Either way... I may be throwing in the towel here soon and going with 1 monitor and 1 or 2 cards... instead of trifire. I'm very disappointed, Last few days I've been playing window mode just so it will stay stable...
I've done some further testing under Win8 and I still can't seem to get it to lock hard. I'm not thinking I'm out of the woods yet, but it's definitely better.
Also, for the first time ever on this system across at least 10 installs of Win7 across I don't know how many Catalyst versions, I can finally use the CCC profiles to switch between Eyefinity and Extended mode. I cannot express how excited I am by this development, as enabling Eyefintiy has always involved a voodoo ritual of stabbing at things in CCC to hopefully maybe get a working Eyefinity config working when I'm done. Typical process is to enable Eyefinity, have it fail, switch to extended, have it work but disable one of my monitors, enable the monitor, have it fail, enable it again and it will work, then enable eyefinity again but this time select a different primary monitor. That exact sequence will maybe 50% of the time get me a working Eyefinity setup. Not doing all this crap is exciting indeed, as I can skip trying to make HydraGrid behave somewhat close to Aero Snap (which it never will duplicate exactly).
So far so good, maybe?
Also, for the first time ever on this system across at least 10 installs of Win7 across I don't know how many Catalyst versions, I can finally use the CCC profiles to switch between Eyefinity and Extended mode. I cannot express how excited I am by this development, as enabling Eyefintiy has always involved a voodoo ritual of stabbing at things in CCC to hopefully maybe get a working Eyefinity config working when I'm done. Typical process is to enable Eyefinity, have it fail, switch to extended, have it work but disable one of my monitors, enable the monitor, have it fail, enable it again and it will work, then enable eyefinity again but this time select a different primary monitor. That exact sequence will maybe 50% of the time get me a working Eyefinity setup. Not doing all this crap is exciting indeed, as I can skip trying to make HydraGrid behave somewhat close to Aero Snap (which it never will duplicate exactly).
So far so good, maybe?
So far I have tested Skyrim (which had pretty reliably failed in the past) along with Dirt 3 (which had also failed in the past but I was just in the mood for some racin' last night). Both of these were prone to the audio-loop hard crash in the past. I have a huge steam library, so I'm still in the process of re-downloading and installing games.
Are there any titles that others have had issues with that I might try?
Are there any titles that others have had issues with that I might try?
No GW2 unfortunately. Here's what I do have, if you see something there that you know will crash, let me know and I'll give it a shot.
As mentioned, Dirt 3 would reliably crash on every install when used in crossfire + eyefinity, only in both, looping audio, etc etc just like everyone else in this thread. X79 motherboard, trifire 7970s, full details here.
Tonight I ran a race in Dirt 3 then let the replay loop while I went to a neighbors house to watch a movie. Can back 2 and half hours later and the replay was still running, and everything worked fine as I raced a couple more.
This has literally never happened on this system with crossfire + eyefinity enabled. I built this system beginning in dec of last year and bought the first pair of 7970s within minutes of them being available on newegg. Since receiving them, I haven't once been able to get a crossfire (and later trifire) config to work for anything longer than maybe 30 minutes, more typically hanging within seconds.
I have to say I'm a little surprised. I'm not 100% certain this thing is fixed, but since standing up Win8 with the 12.11b4 drivers I have yet to have the audio looping, hard power reset hang that I would receive constantly in every previous build of this system under Win7 and the previous drivers (literally, all of the release drivers, and most of the betas). As I mentioned above, crashes with crossfire+eyefinity would most often happen in seconds, so this is very positive news.
If this holds out for a few days I'm going shopping for a 4th card
As mentioned, Dirt 3 would reliably crash on every install when used in crossfire + eyefinity, only in both, looping audio, etc etc just like everyone else in this thread. X79 motherboard, trifire 7970s, full details here.
Tonight I ran a race in Dirt 3 then let the replay loop while I went to a neighbors house to watch a movie. Can back 2 and half hours later and the replay was still running, and everything worked fine as I raced a couple more.
This has literally never happened on this system with crossfire + eyefinity enabled. I built this system beginning in dec of last year and bought the first pair of 7970s within minutes of them being available on newegg. Since receiving them, I haven't once been able to get a crossfire (and later trifire) config to work for anything longer than maybe 30 minutes, more typically hanging within seconds.
I have to say I'm a little surprised. I'm not 100% certain this thing is fixed, but since standing up Win8 with the 12.11b4 drivers I have yet to have the audio looping, hard power reset hang that I would receive constantly in every previous build of this system under Win7 and the previous drivers (literally, all of the release drivers, and most of the betas). As I mentioned above, crashes with crossfire+eyefinity would most often happen in seconds, so this is very positive news.
If this holds out for a few days I'm going shopping for a 4th card
Update: got another hang in Deus Ex: HR, was able to c-a-d out, couldn't use key/mouse in my session when launching task mgr, but was able to logon as my local admin, lauch task mgr, then kill the game process from that session, then log back in with my main user account with everything working fine.
It's still not ideal, but it's working, and I have yet to have to hard power off my system as a result of a video hang since I installed Win8 RTM + Cat 12.11b4.
It's still not ideal, but it's working, and I have yet to have to hard power off my system as a result of a video hang since I installed Win8 RTM + Cat 12.11b4.
Update #2: what the hell let's roll the dice! 4th card ordered
You are brave sir. Good luck to you. Nice to see you sort of have all your problems resolved.
I was experiencing problems with my RAM clocked over 1600, but there's not much performance to be gained there anyway so I now just leave it at 1600. The CPU is currently running at 4GHz on all cores until I'm satisfied that I have some sort of stability. These are also the settings I was using under Win7.
I had previously been able to get up to 5GHz but it ran pretty hot. A task for another day, right now I have video games to play!
I wouldn't say all the problems are resolved, but it's definitely better. The occasional hang is something I can live with. I'd rather it didn't ever hang, but at least they're few and far between, along with being recoverable, if a bit of a pain to recover from.
Let's say it's good enough that I'm off the AMD hate train for a day or two, which was long enough for me to self-justify that 4th card that I've been waiting to buy until I had some hope of actually being able to use it. It's been over 10 months since the cards were originally purchased, I'm now just happy that I can use the damned things.
I'd have lived with it myself if that was the worst of my issues with my Radeon HD 7970 CrossfireX setup.
Thanks for that - in that thread, the dude was asking for PMs with people's email addresses that have been affected by this. Today an AMD employee emailed me a code for the never settle promo, which would have been great except that 4th card I just got also came with the same package.
Here's the contents of that message:
So that's the good news! The bad news is that my PSU isn't up to running that 4th card, which resulted in a bunch of screwing around with the existing driver stack to get the 3 cards working again, and once all that was sorted... audio loop within a minute of starting Sleeping Dogs.
Whatever I had working is no longer working and I'm back to square one. I'm now waffling over re-re-re-re-re-re-re-installing Windows and hoping that I get lucky 2 times in a row, or just waiting some more to see if the email above is a precursor to AMD finally getting their shit together.
It's been since January. I'd just like to have these cards work reliably for a change.
Maybe before they release the next generation would be a good time. That could just be the release cycle! New hardware every year, then each following year you might get drivers to get the old cards to work. At all.
The link above was to a guy asking for email addresses over the weekend, which turned into codes for games as a thank you for waiting thing to people posting on the Asus ROG forum. Alternatively, they just started a promo with new 7000 series cards with the same promo package for new purchases.
i retract this as my problems have come back... bf3 crash, skyrim crash...