i have always been with nvidia the past decade but this time i decided to go with a crossfire setup. it is totally alien to me and am having alot of trouble understanding it.
with nvidia you download the drivers and the control panel is included with them so you can edit and create application profiles and change settings in there easily. nvidia also has the sli bar within the drivers as well. i never used 3rd party applications that fiddled with drivers. only 3rd party applications i used were gpu monitoring software like evga precision or msi afterburner.
-why do people call drivers, for example, 11.4 when there is no such number under the driver's version while viewing them under device manager? the driver version would be called something like 8.85.21 or something but does not give any hint of it being the 11.4 or 11.8p that is touted on the forums.
-where is the crossfire scale bar like nvidia has? it appears that you must use a 3rd party program to get such a scale?
-what is catalyst control center, is this the actual amd driver or only it's control panel?
-what is something called CAP 11.7? it appears to be another 3rd party program. it appears to mess with application profiles but can't i edit and create those in the amd drivers directly? i have found no place to create an application profile in the amd driver and also adjust it's settings like AFR and such.
-what is the purpose radeon pro? this is another 3rd party program. upon installing this and adding a crysis 2 profile with the proper executable path to it the end result was even worse performance to the point that it slowed the game down to where even the audio was slowing down....
-what gpu monitoring application can i use for AMD that also offers logitech LCD screen support like precision and afterburner do? i would love to stick afterburner but it is not showing the memory usage for the amd cards.
i am basically having issues with crossfire not working properly in crysis 2 with dx11 ultra settings and high resolution textures. the scaling does not appear to work properly or the performance is of the same as a single card. i also have this same issue with FFXIV. even with messing around with those 3rd party programs they did not offer any solution exception, what appears to me, unnecessary bloatware and confusion.
after un-installing the bloatware i went back to latest amd drivers and simply checked to ensure crossfire was enabled in CCC. i then loaded up crysis warhead and msi afterburner was reporting full xfire scaling with both gpu's pegged. but of course crysis 2 and ffxiv do not scale at all....
with nvidia you download the drivers and the control panel is included with them so you can edit and create application profiles and change settings in there easily. nvidia also has the sli bar within the drivers as well. i never used 3rd party applications that fiddled with drivers. only 3rd party applications i used were gpu monitoring software like evga precision or msi afterburner.
-why do people call drivers, for example, 11.4 when there is no such number under the driver's version while viewing them under device manager? the driver version would be called something like 8.85.21 or something but does not give any hint of it being the 11.4 or 11.8p that is touted on the forums.
-where is the crossfire scale bar like nvidia has? it appears that you must use a 3rd party program to get such a scale?
-what is catalyst control center, is this the actual amd driver or only it's control panel?
-what is something called CAP 11.7? it appears to be another 3rd party program. it appears to mess with application profiles but can't i edit and create those in the amd drivers directly? i have found no place to create an application profile in the amd driver and also adjust it's settings like AFR and such.
-what is the purpose radeon pro? this is another 3rd party program. upon installing this and adding a crysis 2 profile with the proper executable path to it the end result was even worse performance to the point that it slowed the game down to where even the audio was slowing down....
-what gpu monitoring application can i use for AMD that also offers logitech LCD screen support like precision and afterburner do? i would love to stick afterburner but it is not showing the memory usage for the amd cards.
i am basically having issues with crossfire not working properly in crysis 2 with dx11 ultra settings and high resolution textures. the scaling does not appear to work properly or the performance is of the same as a single card. i also have this same issue with FFXIV. even with messing around with those 3rd party programs they did not offer any solution exception, what appears to me, unnecessary bloatware and confusion.
after un-installing the bloatware i went back to latest amd drivers and simply checked to ensure crossfire was enabled in CCC. i then loaded up crysis warhead and msi afterburner was reporting full xfire scaling with both gpu's pegged. but of course crysis 2 and ffxiv do not scale at all....
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