My 4850X2 gets stuck with one game, but I think it's only with 1
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I thought my Radeon 4850X2 2GB was dead, and I still think it might be... but while I'm waiting for my Radeon 7770 Vapor X (Sapphire) to arrive and taking advantage of some free time from these dates... I started fiddling with my Radeon 4850X2.
I'm testing the 4850X2 2GB... and... it's strange to me, because with Crossfire disabled (which, by the way, now with Catalyst 12.6 I can't disable it, I'll try with 12.5), it never gave me problems. When I enabled it, it crashed in the game Grid that "they lent me" to test the graphics, because I don't have it.
It turns out that yesterday I started testing it and it was running for about 4 hours or more (I don't know exactly how long) running the Street Fighter IV Benchmark (with CrossFireX enabled), at 1920x1080 with everything on High and MSAA4x, and everything perfect, it doesn't break, the PC doesn't freeze... in fact, as it was quite late, I fell asleep on the sofa, I put the test around 1, and I woke up in the morning/early morning, I don't remember if at 5, 6 or 7 in the morning... but anyway, at least 4 hours running the SFIV Benchmark in loop... and with CFx enabled (the symbol of silver AMD Crossfire Technology at the top right of the screen).
It turns out that today I put it to run the Crysis Benchmark (with everything on VeryHigh, with the Very High Tweak, and filters at maximum 16x anisotropic and 16xQ antialiasing), and I set it to repeat the maximum number of times in a row that it allows me (5 times, I can't find a way to configure it to do an infinite loop), and it doesn't crash.
Then I spent about 45 minutes playing Crysis, and nothing bad happens... I wanted to try the Hawx 2 benchmark, but it's no longer available (you have to connect to Ubisoft's UPlay, and it's not there anymore)... I ran the 3DMark 2006 (I'm using Windows XP) and everything perfect... it only freezes with Grid... that is, it freezes in a way that I have to restart the PC, because the whole PC freezes, not the application...
Well, I tried Grid again, and after a while playing (a single race, I can never finish it), everything freezes, having to restart with the reset button.
Drivers 12.6 don't let me disable CrossfireX and it says that there is an open application and that I close it first (with the machine just started)... I just downloaded 12.5 and I'm going to try... I remember that with older drivers (I don't remember which ones), if I could disable Crossfire, and then Grid didn't freeze.
2 more questions:
1º - The question is that I don't know if the reason is a problem with the Grid game, or if Street Fighter doesn't really take advantage of CrossFireX and therefore doesn't stress the card until it crashes, or what?
2º - Can someone give me a list of games and benchmarks that take advantage of (and squeeze as Thor commands) CrossFireX? to put CrossfireX to the max, to see if it freezes with something other than Grid... I don't trust Street Fighter much, because it doesn't consume many resources, and I don't even know if it really uses CFx (although from the silver logo that appears of AMD CrossFireX Technology, I deduce that it does).
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The graphics card is on fire!!! I just played Grid, 2 races in a row and watched the corresponding replays a couple of times each… and it didn't crash my graphics!!! It was activating Vsync and goodbye problems!!! All thanks to a guy from another forum, who told me the following about Grid: *"I'll tell you my experience with the game, which by the way, in my opinion, is one of the best on pc.. When I had the vsync option deactivated, the graphics at that time, the gtx 280 got over 100 degrees, and this caused me artifacts, as well as with the 480, try activating vertical synchronization and let me know.." Before I jump for joy tomorrow, if I can, I'll test it thoroughly until I almost break it, to see if it keeps going well
Best regards!!! @Franziskaner:
Thanks for the links, I'll use them to stress the graphics (along with Furmark, which gives it a lot of strain), but tell me, do you recommend any? do you know which ones really take advantage of CFx/SLI? (to ensure that I'm stressing the CrossfireX system and not a single GPU, which I know that a single one didn't have problems).here you have a few HardLimit - Benchmarks variados
saludos -
pues nada me alegro ;D
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if you look at the 3Dmark 11 you'll see that for example Nemo puts data in single and in CrossfireX, there must be a reason for that, right?
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Well, the thing is that I'm a bit slow, and I've been giving up all this time to use Windows 7 (I wouldn't have installed Vista, not even for a joke), I still use Windows XP and I have 4 GB of RAM that I'm wasting...
I guess it's time to install Windows 7, to take advantage of the 4 GB of RAM, and DirectX11 at least...
Regards.
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Ya, lo que pasa es que yo soy un poco retard, y he renunciado todo este tiempo a usar Windows 7 (Vista ni de coña lo hubiera instalado), sigo con Windows XP y eso que tengo 4 GB de RAM que estoy desaprovechando…
Supongo que sera hora de ir instalado el Windows 7, para aprovechar los 4 GB de RAM, y las DirectX11 por lo menos...
Saludos.
pues creo que si ….. que toca instalar un W7 64B
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Just one question and I won't bother you anymore, I've been asking a lot lately:
According to that image, CrossFireX is enabled, right? It says: "Ati Crossfire Enabled (2 GPUs)
The thing is that it also says "sideport off" at the same time, which makes me doubt, although it may make sense, since it's a 4850X2 with 2GB, and the sideport (where the cable to do crossfire is connected), has nothing connected (it would be to put another 4850X2 or a 4850 for tricrossfire).
So, is it enabled, right?
PD: In the tab below, where it says "ATi Radeon 4850X2", if I expand the tab, I see 2 ATi Radeon 4850X2 (I suppose one for each GPU).
Regards.
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The best place to check if it's activated is in the Catalyst, under Performance->AMD CrossfireX, where the option to enable or disable CrossfireX is checked
Regards
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That's exactly why I looked at the GPU-Z... because when I start WindowsXP, the Catalyst Control Center, pops up with an error telling me that Crossfire could not be enabled because a 3D application was running. However, when I enter the Catalyst Control Center, it marks CrossFire as activated (and won't let me disable it), so I doubted whether it was activated or not, but when it crashed on the Grid I assumed that if it was (without CrossFireX it wouldn't crash). The GPU-Z told me: "Enabled (2 GPU's), Sideport Off". Now I've just installed Windows7, but living with XP... since I had WindowsXP, Debian and Mint, I deleted Mint and used the partition for Windows 7. In Windows 7 it does let me enable and disable CrossFire (I don't know if my XP is too messed up, since it's been years since I reinstalled, or if it's the version of the XP Catalys 12.6 that's causing problems). When I enable it, the GPU-Z appears just like the image (as it appeared in XP), if I disable it says: "Disabled (Crossfire available)" So I've got it clear now, in XP, even though it won't let me enable and disable it, it is enabled and working
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Another thing that has caught my attention, look at the GPU-Z screenshot on Windows XP (the one I already posted)… now I'll show you the one from GPU-Z on Windows 7.
On WindowsXP it says that my graphics card is not compatible with OpenCL or DirectCompute… however on Windows 7 it is...
Is this normal? does this always happen? with Windows XP there is no support for OpenCL?
