thebunnyrules Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 (edited) It took a week of bashing my head against this problem to figure this out and I thought I'd share the solution. Problem:--------------Native AMD crossfire profile for Skyrim does not work properly: low FPS, stuttering, texture and light flickering. According to some old forum posts that I came across, it seems Bethesda made a patch sometime in 2011 which fixed a bunch of stuff but broke AMD's crossfire profile and AMD never bothered fixing it. Some of the solution that I tried but didn't work----------------------------------------------------------------- - Tricking Radeon drivers to run Skyrim using the Oblivion Crossfire profile. Though this profiile is a lot better than the default Skyrim profile, it made DOF unusable in RealVision and my character's face was perminently flickering. I got a lot of CTDs with this too.- Running the game with Assassin's Creed Brotherhood profile (yeah I was desperate enough to try that). Solution:---------------------------------------In AMD Radeon Settings, choose Optimize 1x1 under Skyrim's Crossfire Profile. Next, turn off Surface Format Optimization. Turning off SFO made all the stuttering, low FPS and lag go away. The Optimize 1x1 profile doesn't have any flickering. Update:--------------------------------------After having used this profile for about a week, I noticed a couple issues:- there is an occasional ghosting artifact that happens. I say about once every 20 minutes for a second or so.- the first 5 minutes after starting the game, the FPS is low but then the FPS picks up quite a bit. Personally, I'm more than happy to trade the few quirks I'm getting from running this Crossfire with this profile as the performance boost is almost double what I was getting with one card (again, I use alot of mods). Edited June 7, 2016 by thebunnyrules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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