Dual GPU's and crossfire?

[ConveyWolf]

I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I'm still a bit new to messing with computers and I have a MSI 970 motherboard with dual MSI R9 280 graphics cards and I'm trying to bridget the 2 with crossfire to run ultra on all my games and soon going to be water cooling and upgrading my case. I bridged the cards and went to the drivers and turned on crossfire but every time I play it only pulls load from one of the cards. Does anyone have an info?

[Suffokation]

I'd say you are being bottlenecked. kappa

 

How much usage is on your second card?
 

[Prysin]

Some games don't support crossfire

this.

 

 

I'd say you are being bottlenecked. kappa

 

How much usage is on your second card?

 

no, not really..

my FX 8320 could power 2x HD 7950s (R9 280) just fine. I had that setup for 2.5 years before changing to a Intel i7 4790k and a R9 295x2....

 

He isn't bottlenecked, he doesnt have a proper CF profile in the games he play.

[ConveyWolf]

The temp in both cards goes up. One card will go up to 98% or more load the other won't have any

[ConveyWolf]

Battlefield 4 and AC: Unity

[leadeater]

I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I'm still a bit new to messing with computers and I have a MSI 970 motherboard with dual MSI R9 280 graphics cards and I'm trying to bridget the 2 with crossfire to run ultra on all my games and soon going to be water cooling and upgrading my case. I bridged the cards and went to the drivers and turned on crossfire but every time I play it only pulls load from one of the cards. Does anyone have an info?

 

Crossfire using Fullscreen window mode doesn't work. A lot of the new games coming out default to this, change to fullscreen and you'll see it jump in to life. Have the same issue on my 2 R9 290X's.

[ConveyWolf]

I'm in AMD Catalyst and have enabled crossfire x and have updated my drivers and connected the bridge. I have two monitors each one is on a different card and both work. Like I said I'm still fairly new to pc I've only been doing this for less than a year and don't really have tech savvy friends

[ChatDaw]

I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I'm still a bit new to messing with computers and I have a MSI 970 motherboard with dual MSI R9 280 graphics cards and I'm trying to bridget the 2 with crossfire to run ultra on all my games and soon going to be water cooling and upgrading my case. I bridged the cards and went to the drivers and turned on crossfire but every time I play it only pulls load from one of the cards. Does anyone have an info?

Crossfire works ONLY in fullscreen mode, check if you're doing so (if the game supports it and has a profile of course)

[leadeater]

The other thing I have done is in CCC under the crossfire settings is ticket enabled for applications that don't have profiles. If I find an game with an issue I make an application profile and override the crossfire mode to disabled.

[ConveyWolf]

Leadeater & ChatDaw I went in and changed it to fullscreen for some reason it was on borderless. When I changed it both cards jump up in load and now they're split equally. Is that something I'd have to do on every game?

[leadeater]

Leadeater & ChatDaw I went in and changed it to fullscreen for some reason it was on borderless. When I changed it both cards jump up in load and now they're split equally. Is that something I'd have to do on every game?

 

Most games yes, borderless is the default in a lot of games.

[ChatDaw]

Leadeater & ChatDaw I went in and changed it to fullscreen for some reason it was on borderless. When I changed it both cards jump up in load and now they're split equally. Is that something I'd have to do on every game?

As I said, you gotta play in fullscreen mode on every game (or at least every game that supports crossfire) to take advantage of both your cards

[App4that]

You can force crossfire in any game, it's getting it to work correctly that's tricky.

[ChatDaw]

You can force crossfire in any game, it's getting it to work correctly that's tricky.

I know.