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June 10, 2014 5:41:55 PM

Hello everyone, looking for some help here, i am a little stumped. I am running Windows 8.1 64-Bit

I am running XFX 7870 crossfire, and when crossfire is enabled some games crash. Sniper Elite V2 as well as Call Of Duty Ghosts. But not DotA 2, or Smite. I spoke to XFX to ask how to troubleshoot it, i followed his steps.

Take out one video card test the game, same with the other one. I did that, the game worked just fine. So, to be exact the game works when either crossfire is turned off, or when either video card is in.
I did the rest of these steps.
Uninstall the drivers, download up to date drivers. Remove 1 card from the system, Turn off my firewall. Just have Windows Defender, so i turned that off. Turn the computer back on with 1 card in the PC. Install the drivers, restart, test the game, works fine. Put the second card in and got a crash when trying to play a game in CrossFire. So i am little stumped, i dont really mind having to send a card in, but i dont want to if i dont have to. Any help would be greatly appreciated, i want to move on this as fast as possible.

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June 10, 2014 5:50:20 PM

There are some games that having Crossfire enabled will cause problems such as crashing. Of course you might have a power supply or heat issue, but since it does not happen in all of the games, that is only a possibility.
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June 10, 2014 6:00:46 PM

I have a 700w power supply, it isnt a heat issue either, i use Speccy to watch the temps. It an NZXT 810 tower.
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June 10, 2014 6:24:26 PM

bmac93 said:
I have a 700w power supply, it isnt a heat issue either, i use Speccy to watch the temps. It an NZXT 810 tower.


Yeah, I really did not think it was heat or anything like that. Honestly it is probably due to the game drivers/program not working correctly with Crossfire enabled. You can google the games you are having issues with and see others complaining about it.
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June 10, 2014 6:34:03 PM

did you turn off enableulps?
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June 10, 2014 7:21:29 PM

coolcole01 said:
did you turn off enableulps?


im not sure what that is.

EDIT: Just did this, didnt work.
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June 13, 2014 5:44:34 AM

Can anyone recommend anything else? XFX is willing to replace the cards, i just want to have to send them in.
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June 13, 2014 6:12:43 AM

Just a suggestion:

step 1: Remove second card.

step 2: Run game using installed card

step 3. Swap cards

step 4: Run game again

If there are no problems in any steps then its a crossfire issue with the game. otherwise if one (or both) cards fail, RMA
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June 13, 2014 6:19:47 AM

CGurrell said:
Just a suggestion:

step 1: Remove second card.

step 2: Run game using installed card

step 3. Swap cards

step 4: Run game again

If there are no problems in any steps then its a crossfire issue with the game. otherwise if one (or both) cards fail, RMA



I tried both of these, i ran each card in its respective slots by itself, and both games ran fine when cards were alone, or with XFire disabled. So it isnt the MOBO slots and it isnt the cards, i guess it could be the Xfire cable right?
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June 13, 2014 6:55:05 AM

bmac93 said:
CGurrell said:
Just a suggestion:

step 1: Remove second card.

step 2: Run game using installed card

step 3. Swap cards

step 4: Run game again

If there are no problems in any steps then its a crossfire issue with the game. otherwise if one (or both) cards fail, RMA



I tried both of these, i ran each card in its respective slots by itself, and both games ran fine when cards were alone, or with XFire disabled. So it isnt the MOBO slots and it isnt the cards, i guess it could be the Xfire cable right?


If you don't get the option for crossfire then I'd say so yeah but it sounds like you can enable crossfire just fine. If you have another crossfire bridge (or can borrow one) then check it just in case but i highly doubt it's that.

Just had a look at Google and found this http://community.callofduty.com/thread/200797404 which could solve your COD:Ghosts issues. As for Sniper Elite V2 all i could find was this http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/358987-33-sniper-el... but it doesn't really mention crossfire too much
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June 13, 2014 7:29:38 AM

CGurrell said:
bmac93 said:
CGurrell said:
Just a suggestion:

step 1: Remove second card.

step 2: Run game using installed card

step 3. Swap cards

step 4: Run game again

If there are no problems in any steps then its a crossfire issue with the game. otherwise if one (or both) cards fail, RMA



I tried both of these, i ran each card in its respective slots by itself, and both games ran fine when cards were alone, or with XFire disabled. So it isnt the MOBO slots and it isnt the cards, i guess it could be the Xfire cable right?


If you don't get the option for crossfire then I'd say so yeah but it sounds like you can enable crossfire just fine. If you have another crossfire bridge (or can borrow one) then check it just in case but i highly doubt it's that.

Just had a look at Google and found this http://community.callofduty.com/thread/200797404 which could solve your COD:Ghosts issues. As for Sniper Elite V2 all i could find was this http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/358987-33-sniper-el... but it doesn't really mention crossfire too much


Wow, thats a pretty detailed post on the CoD fix. I will have to try that when im home. Hopefully it works. Although, the Sniper fix says it should fix the same rendering that using Xfire uses, so hopefully that will fix it too... Do you have any uninstall/install tricks for the latest drivers. I am going to install the Beta drivers when im home. Hoping it will work lol...
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