Is this game really that hard to run? 
Before I install my shiny 5870, I wanted to baseline the rig in my sig. In the past I have used CS:S to judge relative Source performance easily and Far Cry 2 has a great built in benchmark as well.
I picked up Crysis Warhead just to bench with over x-mas for $5 on Steam and downloaded and installed the 3rd party app that adds the benchmark functionality.
Last night I tried to bench the rig in crossfire mode and had all sorts of issues. When trying to bench at 1920*1080 Mainstream (the one below gamer?) even it would stutter loading the Frost map (picked for relative comparison to Anandtech) and sometimes it would seem to never load. At one point I brought up task manager during a run and it ran fine for a bit, completing some epic slideshows with the Gamer and Enthusiast settings enabled.
The first thing to go was the OC on the video cards, but that didn't really resolve the issues. Case cooling isn't an issue either, my new CM 690 case has plenty more air flow than my old CM Elite in which xfire worked fine for the games I played with it. The only other issue I could think of hardware wise is my power supply. The fan in my OCZ StealthXStream went bad, so they sent me back a brand new OCZ StealthXStream2 600W. This should be adequate for a 4830 xfire setup, right? The older one didn't seem to have any issues, but I had pulled card while I waited for the RMA so last night was the first time I really pushed the new PSU.
Wondering if it really just didn't work, I played the first 15 minutes of the game at that resolution, everything tagged to mainstream with "gamer" shaders. The game actually ran pretty quick, but the bushes popping in about 20' away constantly was pretty freaking annoying.
Anyway, am I just foolish for trying to bench at that resolution with 512 MB cards or something? Or is xfire just a really bad idea with older ATI cards in Crysis, as implicated in this article:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3987/...renewing-competition-in-the-midrange-market/8
When I turned it down to a run of 1024*768 and 1280*1024 runs the loading screen was still herky jerky but the actual time demos ran without issue.
Input is welcome! If I have the patience, I am going to disable xfire tonight and see what single card numbers look like.
Thanks - Nat
Before I install my shiny 5870, I wanted to baseline the rig in my sig. In the past I have used CS:S to judge relative Source performance easily and Far Cry 2 has a great built in benchmark as well.
I picked up Crysis Warhead just to bench with over x-mas for $5 on Steam and downloaded and installed the 3rd party app that adds the benchmark functionality.
Last night I tried to bench the rig in crossfire mode and had all sorts of issues. When trying to bench at 1920*1080 Mainstream (the one below gamer?) even it would stutter loading the Frost map (picked for relative comparison to Anandtech) and sometimes it would seem to never load. At one point I brought up task manager during a run and it ran fine for a bit, completing some epic slideshows with the Gamer and Enthusiast settings enabled.
The first thing to go was the OC on the video cards, but that didn't really resolve the issues. Case cooling isn't an issue either, my new CM 690 case has plenty more air flow than my old CM Elite in which xfire worked fine for the games I played with it. The only other issue I could think of hardware wise is my power supply. The fan in my OCZ StealthXStream went bad, so they sent me back a brand new OCZ StealthXStream2 600W. This should be adequate for a 4830 xfire setup, right? The older one didn't seem to have any issues, but I had pulled card while I waited for the RMA so last night was the first time I really pushed the new PSU.
Wondering if it really just didn't work, I played the first 15 minutes of the game at that resolution, everything tagged to mainstream with "gamer" shaders. The game actually ran pretty quick, but the bushes popping in about 20' away constantly was pretty freaking annoying.
Anyway, am I just foolish for trying to bench at that resolution with 512 MB cards or something? Or is xfire just a really bad idea with older ATI cards in Crysis, as implicated in this article:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3987/...renewing-competition-in-the-midrange-market/8
When I turned it down to a run of 1024*768 and 1280*1024 runs the loading screen was still herky jerky but the actual time demos ran without issue.
Input is welcome! If I have the patience, I am going to disable xfire tonight and see what single card numbers look like.
Thanks - Nat
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