What settings should I set it to?

[RitualBlack]

Your screenshot does look really nice. I wish that graphics enhancers would work with crossfire cards :tongue: . I run the game on ultra settings on my laptop; 1920x1080, fxaa, x8aa, x16af in the 55-60fps mark with the AMD 12.1 drivers (curse you forced v.sync for limiting me!) but the only game I have ever been able to use a graphics mod on was GTAIV [patch rollback to 1.04 with icenhancer 1.25] and even that is buggy at times. For example the street lamps do not turn on unless I am within say 30 ft of them. Morrowind and Oblivion graphics extender caused non-stop shadow flickering for me and ENB series on skyrim made just about every other frame a flash of white covering the entire screen :laugh: . Ultra settings are nice but I like how you game looks more :sweat: .

[Grasmann]

I would probably jus try to disable the crossfire for the game.

As far as I know the increase in FPS are rather small for most games with crossfire as well as with SLI.

That's the reason I never bothered buying a second card.

 

 

Most tests I read regarding this said something like:

Game with one card: 54 FPS

Game with SLI/Crossfire: 59 FPS

 

So ... what's the point at all?

Edited March 9, 2012 by Grasmann

[Rennn]

I've heard higher values for some games. Sometimes from 50fps to 80-85fps, if my percentages are correct. Skyrim is bad for SLI or Crossfire, or so I've heard.

 

The problem with almost any Crossfire game is you get microstutter, and the game at 100fps with microstutter can look worse than one at 40fps. I'm not sure how Nvidia does it with SLI, but I think their method (splitting the screen into portions?) is more stable than Crossfire. I'm not sure though... my data is coming from 2009. They could have fixed the stutter by now in most games.

Edited March 9, 2012 by Rennn

[RitualBlack]

Crossfire scaling is really good these days. One of my mobile cards gets around 32-36 fps and I stay pretty constant around the capped 60 mark with crossfire on (Just cause 2 has something ridiculous, averaging around the 95% scaling of the second card so almost double the fps). Microstuttering normally only happens when you you are running your cards in AFR mode and drop below 30 fps and I have not had that happening since they fixed Skyrim to work with crossfire. Crossfire used to be low scaling and pretty choppy but its a lot better in recent years.

 

You can see from this graph why I like to keep it on; graph

[Rennn]

So it's just old information on my part then. That's good to know.

[blove]

I run an i7 920@4GHz, 6GB RAM, 5870, and a 24inch monitor. Settings are 1920x1200 (fake fullscreen using Simple Borderless Window mod), 0x AA, 8x AF, FXAA On, Shadows turned down to High, and all other game settings maxed at a solid 60FPS. At 2048x1152 and those settings, even if you only have a 5850, you should be able to get at least a steady 50FPS.