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Hi, I have an AMD Radion HD 7970m in crossfire, with (civ 5, Guildwars 2, Battlefield 3) any new driver the games work fine, but when I turn on crossfire I get tearing and the game crashes.

Windows 8 #64, Intel I7 3630qm, 16 gb 1600 hyper-x Kingston ram, 120gb intel 330 ssd drive, 750 WD Black 7200 drive, in a clevo P370EM Laptop this has a Vortex 17.3" HD Led Widescreen.

any help appreciated. thanks.
 
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Yey I have found a workable solution, by looking at other forums changing the pagefile from the ssd drive (I changed to 1000mb ssd, 5000mb HD) and changing the games to 'windowed' mode (I disabled crossfire in CCC then went into the game changed to 'windowed' then came out and changed to crossfire) works for both Battlefield 3 and Guildwars 2. Which I had problems with both.

Now both are working fine, I have yet to stress test and I will play with the settings until I have the best solution but until a better solution arises I am happy with the result. Thanks for your help everyone.

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Hi thanks for commenting. No overclock at all. It can't be heat as the game doesn't start. Maybe power, but I have only just purchased as few days ago and its designed as a crossfire system, and no load is on it. I have noticed after an hour or so of playing its drops out of Battlefield 3 in a directx error, I am monitoring the system to see its that could be heat.
 

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I would guess win8 doesn't play nice with crossfire, but try the CAP2 profiles and both the 12.10 WHQL and newest 12.11 beta drivers

edit: I see there are no 12.11 drivers for win8, looks like they are rightly focusing on Win7
 

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I have tried a few Drivers:

AMD HD7970M VGA driver (8.982.6.0) for Windows 8.

9.2.0.0, 12.10 and 12.11

I just disable the second card by disabling crossfire in catalyst control center, then its works fine for an hour then I get a direct x error and it crashes. Whats the best software to monitor temps?
 

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Ok crossfire gives instant problems, I can't even load the game as it crashes. I can play single GPU for over and hour and even 2 hours before sometimes it crashes but I have been getting different reasons for crashing. The last one said Directx failure, sometimes it just drops out so could be network problems.

I will run HW monito and let you know the results. Thanks all.
 

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By keeping it minimized when running the game in crossfire, it comes up the the above error. Normally in non crossfire mode it just opens full screen and continues.
 

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Interesting. Is that in battlefield 3 or in the graphics card settings. Sorry can you be more specific.
 

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Hmm I only have a tick box to enable power play, there is maximum or power saving options. Its set to maximum on power supply and power saving on battery.
 

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Ok, I have now done a fresh install, I stopped Microsoft updates and installed the above Enduro driver. There is still no Switchable graphics applications in CCC under power.

In crossfire I tried Civilization 5 and its works fine, Battlefield 3 still has tearing problems and crashes. I can't say this is any different than before.
 

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The one in the post is the AMD Catalyst™ 7970M Enduro™ Performance I have tried this and that's what's loaded and details are in my last comment.
 
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