Crossfire doesn't work in Windowed mode?
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Tonight, while making some adjustments while playing WoW, I saw something curious with ATi Overdrive. It was showing my 2nd video card at idle, while my main card showed full clocks. I proceeded to turn on the CrossFire status icon and low and behold, it was not showing up as if in CrossFire mode.
I then changed the game to fullscreen mode, and the crossfire logo showed up, and my FPS increased quite a bit according to the in game FPS meter. It did appear to have higher FPS too.
After seeing this, I thought I'd check other games. I tried out Dragon Age and Crysis. All three games would not use CF while in windowed mode, but they all were using CF in fullscreen mode.
Is this a problem with my install or is this a normal thing? Can anyone else test this as well?
System specs:
i7 920 @ 3.3-3.7 (depending on weither I need the juice or not)
Asus p6t motherboard
6g of tri-channel memory
two 5870's in CF
two monitors in extended desktop mode. Only one is used in a video game.
I then changed the game to fullscreen mode, and the crossfire logo showed up, and my FPS increased quite a bit according to the in game FPS meter. It did appear to have higher FPS too.
After seeing this, I thought I'd check other games. I tried out Dragon Age and Crysis. All three games would not use CF while in windowed mode, but they all were using CF in fullscreen mode.
Is this a problem with my install or is this a normal thing? Can anyone else test this as well?
System specs:
i7 920 @ 3.3-3.7 (depending on weither I need the juice or not)
Asus p6t motherboard
6g of tri-channel memory
two 5870's in CF
two monitors in extended desktop mode. Only one is used in a video game.
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Hey Bystander I've got almost the same setup (P6t board,5870's,i7-920 etc) but I play cod 6. Get this when I'm playing cod with A.I on the status icon appears but the game is unplayable this happen, I have to disable it and then I'm not using the other GPU, see my problem. I'll attach some images because screen shots don't work, ps I've got a 24 inch 1080p monitor but it's only 60hz could this be it? Oops i cant attach images well thats annoying if u would like to see email me on jabroon@gmail.com.
Regards Jack
Regards Jack
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