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    GPU usage...Something's wrong...Help please.

    Discussion in 'Alienware 18 and M18x' started by cachexic, Aug 5, 2011.

  1. cachexic

    cachexic Notebook Consultant

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    I'm playing Alice: Madness Returns. I have the RadeonPro crossfire bar on the left side of my screen, and neither card ever seems to go above 25% usage. Even when the framerate drops from 60 to 45-48. Why is this? Shouldn't they be going full throttle? What can I do to remedy this?

    Also, Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2 apparently does not support crossfire, as I can't get the crossfire bar to appear in that game. How can I force a crossfire profile to maybe get crossfire working in that game? Which profile should I use?

    Thanks.
     
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    debaucher Notebook Deity

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    I have personally never had any luck with radeonpro... but you may want to try different crossfire settings/profiles and see which works best.

    May be you just need to try a different method (different x-fire setting in radeonpro) to get them to kick in properly.

    D.
     
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    cachexic Notebook Consultant

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    None of the different crossfire settings upped the GPU usage.

    Anybody have any experience with under-utilization of GPUs like this? I'm stumped.
     
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