Power Cooler 4870 With Crysis 20-30 fps low?

Overall its not that surprising for Crysis. I have 2x 4850's and I get about the same frame rates as you although I do run AA at 2x (although I had to drop it down for the final battle on aircraft carrier). Crysis has never seemed to like ATI cards that much and pretty much ignores crossfire. I run the game as well on one card as I do with the second card enabled. Hopefully this will improve somewhat with future driver updates but overall I would say its just mostly Crysis. When I benchmark, all high settings 1680x1050 DX 10 with 2xAA I get 24fps. With Crossfire enabled I get about 25fps.

I heard that the new version of Crysis coming out in a month or two is better optimized for dual core processors as well as newer and multiple GPU setups. Lets just hope so.

If only playing at High, set it at DX9, no quality difference that I could see but much better FPS. The problem isn't the card, it's Crysis .

What's your gpu load? 4870 runs hot. Some people get 100+C on stress tests. 55-60C is way too low for max load. Your graphics card may be bottlenecked in some way.

On 1280x1024 DX10 all high settings, I get 45+ fps min on an old 8800gts. Something is wrong there.

WEll I knew my PSu wasnt the problem since its a 750 WAtt corsair.


Dagger, isnt playing crysis basically under load?

Just crysis.

I'm guessing your other game run fine.

It is the Crysis Affect...no worries. Yes ^ did you get all of the hotfixes and patches and stuff? Browse through Techpowerup's download section for a list if you haven't.


Edit:

The Crysis Affect: The act of Crysis negatively impacting a system's performance to the point at which one becomes utterly distraught. The Crysis Affect has been known to cause Crytosis.

Crytosis: Intense irritation, obsessive compulsive disorder, and insomnia caused by the Crysis Affect. Crytosis has no known cure. Side affects lead one to believe their system is defective.


There should be a sticky about poor crysis performance. "Having Low FPS in Crysis" ......EVERYONE IS!!!

Updated to the newest drivers and did some configuring and my low went Fps went to like 28-40 now. =) So its a little better...

Thanks guys

But warhammer will have a better engine for sure?

His temperatures are perfectly ok, he is running the fan at 40% , that cools down the card a lot... 100C is something wrong I would say

I have a PowerColor HD4870 and on 40% fan speed it runs about 60C at full load.

The results you are showing might by caused by not correclty working cooling system. Those are 1,5 months old anyway, so it's probobly some kind of premature sollution, I wouldn't take is as the real picture...

@40% fan speed it shouldn't get anywhere near 100. At 40% mine gets to about 60 max.

I'll throw another confirmation in, I have 3 profiles setup:

Cool Desktop: 20% fan (Temps Idle around 65, gpu not stressed)
High Speed: 40% fan (Temps Idle around 60, under stress max around 85)
Crossfire Gaming: 60% fan (Temps Idle around 55, under stress max around 80)

The only time my card approached 100 degress was before I did the fan fix, then I was hititng 99 while gaming.

One thing to keep in mind is temps will vary based on your case and airflow. My case has a 120mm front and rear fan. Each of the fans has 3 speed settings. By upping the fans from slow to medium I can drop the temps of EVERYTHING in my case by about 2 - 5 degrees. One of my 4850's sits near the very bottom of my case, this card use to idle about 10 degrees higher than the 4850 sitting up higher. I ramped up the front fan and it brought the temps within 3 -5 degrees of my other 4850.

Strangly low temperatures.

Other benchmarkers get similar temperatures. Most games don't fully stress consistantly. Just like how you would use prime95 instead of a browser to stress a cpu, you should use a stress tester to stress gpu. This is a decent one.
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/

It doesn't matter. Lower temperature is simply a sign that it is not at full stress, which indicates that another part of your computer is holding back/bottlenecking the video card. It's a way of ruling out the card as source of performance slowdown.

do you want the results

After 10 minutes of testing the highest it would go was 69C.

Did you updated Crysis? I heard that the patches address DX10 performance slowdowns of first retail version.

As for temperature testing, you should turn off AA. With it on, the memory bus will bottleneck gpu, thus preventing it from working at full load. It's the same as how you wouldn't use Blend Test in Prime95 to stress cpu. You're not really stressing what you want.