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Cpeden7

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Hey there everyone. I currently have 2 R9 270x 4g gpus in crossfire. I really want to start getting more into the pc gaming scene. One way I always used to check if I could play a game was "can you run it".com Though ever sense I began my crossfire I feel as if it does not recognize that I have a second gpu thus hampering my results.

My question is what is the best way to get a good understanding of how my gpu's will handle the game? Thank you!
 
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The simple way is to just "run" the game yourself.

If you want to make sure you will get all the eye candy you can get from the game, you can just look for reviews on it. If it's an obscure game, you could try looking for specific information in forums of the game and such that can give you an indication on what sort of machine it runs maxed out and compare it to your own.

There is no general rule to it, specially since for 99% of PC games you can play with the detail level and see what works best for a fluid experience.

Plus, you also depend (to a lesser extent) on your CPU. What do you have? As a general rule, any i3, i5 or i7 CPUs from Intel can cope with most games out there, giving smooth framerates across the board. But the rule of thumb is valid: faster CPU, better FPS.

Cheers!

EDIT: Forgot about the Crossfire thingy. That could a tad more painful, since you will need to either wait for the profiles from AMD or create your own (less optimized) profile for the game. It would impact your effective smoothness, yes, but you would still manage to get playable framerates (and hopefully smoothness) tweaking inside the Driver and the game settings.
 
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Some games are also more CPU dependent like MMO's like SWTOR (a good GPU doesn't hurt with this game but a powerful CPU helps a lot). Some games (still) don't support xfire or SLi, because the game is an older title, most modern games from say the last 2-3yrs support xfire/SLi. As Yuka said try running the game. You can also check the forums for the game you're looking at and ask questions from the players, most of them will be pretty helpful and give you advice with your hardware and the game settings. PC gamers in general all want to get the best performance we can from our given systems so someone out there will have advice with your particular setup and be willing to help. And consoles are for peasants. ;)
 
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You should be able to run any of the games mentioned on that GPU/CPU combo - the 8320 is quite capable, especially with an overclock.

You may or may not be able to run those games in high/ultra graphics settings; every game requires some tweaking to get the best balance between visual candy/performance.
 
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Yeah, Borderlands and Dying Light are not very kind to AMD CPUs unfortunately. You shouldn't see horrible framerates though.

Just try to tweak the settings on each and see if you can make CPU tweaks as well. There is one popular tweak (if you're not using Win10 or Win8.1) that is called "core parking" that helps a bit with FX CPUs and games. Basically, you tell the game to use even cores (0, 2, 4 and 6) so you get a bit more CPU muscle.

Cheers!
 
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