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  1. 1. Getting crossfire to work...

    • Yes, it works
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    • Have not tried, but have crossfire capability


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This is a troubleshooting thread on who got crossfire to work, who didn't, and how did you do it. If you voted yes on the poll, then post how you did it. :yay:

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I had to add -winxp to get it to work on my 4870x2 re-naming the exe didn't work for me.

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This is a troubleshooting thread on who got crossfire to work, who didn't, and how did you do it. If you voted yes on the poll, then post how you did it. :yay:

I have done nothing special but my 2 x hd4870x2's are working fine in quad crossfire. everything set to very high 1920x1200x32.

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I have done nothing special but my 2 x hd4870x2's are working fine in quad crossfire. everything set to very high 1920x1200x32.

I have a quadcore 9650 @3,60 with HD 4870x2 too.

My fps (all set very high), fillrate 125% at 1440x900x32 are always 60 capped in open space.

But in towns fps drops between 45-60. Never under 45..

i have renamed original exe to Fear.exe.

What's your performance in fps in towns?

Cheers

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Not benchmarked this game yet but My Rig averages around 105 FPS in Ultra high everything in Farcry 2 and over 25,000 in Vantage 3D 2008.

26,000 in 3Dmark '06.

I7 920 quadcore @3.8ghz.

2 off HD4870X2's (4 x GPU's) in Quad crossfire.

6 GB corsair 1866mhz triple

Rampage II Extreme X58 Motherboard.

Fatal1ty Pro extreme 64mb X-fi

By the way, where is the benchamarking Exe for this game?

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I've added -winxp for my 4870x2 which enabled crossfire (ArmA 2 v1.00/v1.01/v1.02, catalyst 9.6).

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I've added -winxp for my 4870x2 which enabled crossfire (ArmA 2 v1.00/v1.01/v1.02, catalyst 9.6).

What O/S are you using?

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Quadfire,(4870x2's) on Vista and Win7 with the -winxp flag. Use crysis.exe to limit the over reaction of HDR/Bloom. playable game for "testing" with 200%fill and all VH except Low on the motion Blur. 1600/1200 100hz refresh (crt). 3.8ghz i7. the strobing on starts settles down, have to wait a bit for it to all sink up. using 16 and 32 hdr in cfg.

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Same for me 4870X2 and the flag -winxp get the Crossfire to work properly.

x kklownboy: Are you sure that renaming the .exe to crysis.exe resolve that problem?

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yes. arma2.exe is verydark too light, where as crysis.exe is ~ good. easy to test, make two shortcuts.

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Got good results here renaming arma2.exe to fear.exe (Ati drivers)

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Got good results here renaming arma2.exe to fear.exe (Ati drivers)
what you will find is that certain renamed .exe's have different texture issues and or HDR issues. good to try a few, and try newer .exe, like fear2, and farcry2 ect.

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On the renaming thing, do you think that renaming to a more related game would give better results? Like, renaming to a flight sim, because arma is a combat sim.

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yes. arma2.exe is verydark too light, where as crysis.exe is ~ good. easy to test, make two shortcuts.

Thanks i will try.

If someone make other test will be good that report the results :)

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do you have to rename the exe itself or just the shortcut?

The .exe need to be renamed.

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got quadfire 4870x2's and did many tests with that arma2mark benchmark. the winner?

pure: arma2.exe

arma2.exe -winxp, crysis.exe -winxp fear.exe -winxp and fear.exe did all do worse than arma2.exe alone to me :butbut:

only thing -winxp did to me was making the hdr go TOTALY nuts. while non-xp its very good.

odd.

Vista 64

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i have a 4870X2 on a Asus M3A32 with Phenom 9550

and it works both gpu´s with the winxp command,

but i have only 20-30 FPS

the gpu´s only work with 30-40%

not working by me!!!!!!!!

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I have an 4870 X2 & a Q9650, crossfire "works" in so far as the logo appears and both gpus are active, but i am getting performance that is sub par even for only 1 CPU, FPs in the region of 10 - 15 on average detail. So clearly crossfire isnt working in real terms and there is a serious issue with at least the 4870's series if not more.

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Quadfire,(4870x2's) on Vista and Win7 with the -winxp flag. Use crysis.exe to limit the over reaction of HDR/Bloom. playable game for "testing" with 200%fill and all VH except Low on the motion Blur. 1600/1200 100hz refresh (crt). 3.8ghz i7. the strobing on starts settles down, have to wait a bit for it to all sink up. using 16 and 32 hdr in cfg.

Just for a few that may seem a little confused about the GFX cards.

A HD4870X2 is a single card with 2 GPU's automatically configured in crossfire.

2 HD4870X2's are 2 cards with 4 GPU's in total hence 'Quad crossfire'.(my system).

(4 Graphics cards essentially).

4 gb 0f DDR5 (1gb per processor).

So, does renaming the arma2.exe to crysis.exe actually do something then?

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I just installed my 4870X2 on Sunday and spent the better part of today fiddling with it.

I got crossfire to run by turning AI to high and flip queue to 3 and now get more than 40 -70fps in editor mode, 140+fps looking at the sky.

Before that, I tried all kinds of stuff like renaming the exe to crysis 1&2, farcry 1&2, fear etc... but settled on arma2 because I couldn't see a difference with fear or the other exes.

For me AI has to be high or crossfire doesn't work. Flipping through the other options had little effect. I tested to see if both GPU's were active with GPU-Z 3.4 (free from guru3d) and both posted a 99% activity rate. Before, one was at 99 and the other was at 14%.

One GPU does seem to heat 25-30% more than the other.

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