M18x-R1 with 7970M CrossFire

your lucky! mine dont read and im getting a weird lets freeze up after gaming for a bit.. temps are better than my 6990s by alot.. but internet and movies /blurays are fine.. i get to game for about 2-5 hours before it happens .. also i can run bench marks all day long and my machine never breaks a sweat! so i think its still the drivers.. but the drivers i posted are the best so far..

 

ok GPU observer works shows me the temps.. how many gpus is it supposed to show? when i click the tool icon i get 0 thru 11 all read HD7970m

 

Launch a separate gadget for each GPU and find each GPU in the drop down. Set one gadget for GPU0 and the other for GPU1. If you select the wrong one from the drop down, you probably will get no readings, or readings that you recognize are not accurate.

Have your tried the AMD 12.4 CAP with 7970M CF yet?

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx

 

I tried those profiles same thing no crossfire on most games hey Mr fox can you delete some multiple posts on the market for me?

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sit...licate-empty-posts-threads-3.html#post8540697

 

I have no mod powers outside of the Alienware forums, but I have requested that a mod with powers in the NBR Marketplace to do that for you.

We are having lots of issues with the forum software right now. I hope they get is sorted before too long.

If you get an empty thread when you create a new one, trying adding your commentary as the first reply and see if that works. As soon as we discover the empty duplicates, we are deleting them. I've seen a few noobs posting to the empty threads, LOL. When their comments are useful, I have been merging them with the active thread before deleting.

 

Thanks sir I am afraid to post something and it will be duplicated now

 

Good thing they're beta drivers. Hopefully the full whql release would fix those problems...

 

glad you are getting 7970's at least we not alone anymore, for the users who don't know ichime make things work"

 

so no news on anything speedy?

 

No John I tried everything to make some games work in Xfire but they don't
we can overclock with afterburner but if drivers are not stable there is no point
also with stock drivers I saw a lot of flickering with Dumb drivers is gone

 

and trying to invoke the gaming profiles does not work either?
have you ran radeon pro yet?

 

didn't bother with radeon pro yet i didn't have any luck with 6990's before but i'll try today thanks

 

What games are you playing where crossfire isn't working Speedy?

 

the 2 most important for me are Crysis 2 and Arkham city

 

I don't have either of those games so I can't test them

Edit: Just checked the temps for my second card and it frequently stays 5-6 degrees higher then my first card. It never goes past 77 degrees though.

 

I would have joined you guys at least a week ago, but it seems that my order has been seriously delayed.

And it's been a while since I've used an ATi card so I'm using this thread to help refresh my memory as to how to tweak drivers, troubleshoot, etc.

 

welcome back to the "tweak ati drivers" club...

 

Ichime, we need you. Help us.

 

Did you order new cards from Eurocom or dell?

 

Speedy , any luck on the crossfire issue with crysis 2?

 

still confused if I enable it both GPU's have the same usage % but if disabled I get the same FPS and only one GPU is working

 

I bet if CF works now with Crysis 2, it will have 60fps maxed out.

What about Crysis 1? Can anyone check how it plays in Crossfire?

 

You say they have same % when enabled, what % are they running at? Close to 100%?

It took so long to get crossfire working right with crysis 2 on my 6970's i don't think I'll hold my breath for driver support for the 7970's on this game , but it is still one of my favorite games.

 

yea speedy is right CF with these cards is really messed up..
most games just crash after a bit if its enabled..

 

But can't we at least try? Please try Crysis 1

 

you send me a gift code for the game and ill give it a go! i dont have that game so..

 

well spend some of that hard earned cash you have.

 

I'd be hoping for more than 60fps on Crysis2 with 7970m Crossfire working properly....

My 580m Sli machine can crank out 53fps with maxed out settings with a slight gpu OC (see screenshot) and cpu level 3.

 

yeah 99% usage but still don't help on the frames

but what is your stock run ? a single 7970 pull 47fps on that bench with Dumb drivers and two 7970's pull 46fps

 

How long did 6970m cf to work on Crysis 2? A month maybe?

 

You're pressing my memory because that was too long ago, but I think it was maybe a couple of months. Sometimes poor CrossFire support is the fault of the game more than the driver. The majority of games have been better optimized for NVIDIA graphics at the time of release. I think that is mostly because of NVIDIA's level of engagement and influence with the game developers.

 

yes it brings memories I remember dealing with 6990's but this round don't even matter because a 7970M is insanely fast to run all games at max settings that's why I don't panic anymore if they fix crossfire fine if not is not the end of the world

 

Stock run without gpu OC was the 1st run out of those 3 in my screenie on previous page (49fps).....it wasnt a massive OC to hit 53fps. I'm also running this at a slightly higher res. on my U2410 1920x1200, which might make a little difference too - hadnt benched it at native laptop display resolution.

I imagine when you guys get the drivers sorted, you will smash my fps into the ground!

 

totally agree on thet, brother Fox! by the way nvidia release a new drivers today, Version 301.42 - WHQL. I don't know but I still see the Dpc latency.

 

Let's do our best to fix this crossfire issue so we can see true power.

 

we have to put more presure on dell and AMD to make it work. because the AMD is a very powrful card!!! and it need a vetter drivers support.

 

I agree with you. I have owned alot of different gaming laptops , both nvidia and ati and I don't care about brand name. I just want the chip to work with the games and I personally had less problems with nvidia. It's pretty sad when I have to turn of my $4000 m18x with amd 6990 cards and use my $1500 g74 with a single nvidia gtx 560m to get better gaming experience.

 

We will get xfire support soon but how can we pressure amd?

 

Wait, is this just for Crysis 2?

If so, try checking in game FPS with and without Crossfire to see if it isn't just the benchmark software. Just a thought. Also, what is the latest CAP (catalyst application profile) you guys have installed?

Hope to get started before the end of the month, unless Eurocom says otherwise :/

Eurocom, and they're taking forever.

 

Yes, let's try playing Crysis 2 in game and see if Xfire can work on this.

Dumb dumb, once I have extra, I can send you crysis 1

 

Here's another one for comparison... pretty consistent with Steve's results.

 

so GTX580M SLI = 54FPS

HD7970M = 47FPS

Crossfire HD7970M= ???

you may be right I start the game and getting from 45 to 80 FPS in game maybe the benchmark don't work in crossfire that's all

what about Arkham City I get the same frames in game with on/off crossfire any idea ?

 

Crossfire was broken when i was trying it on the Crysis 2 benchmark, i did some digging to find out i was not the only one with the issue and i think if i remember correctly you have to disable any kind of Anti Aliasing or Crossfire wont work for the benchmark tool. It was something stupid like that but i think in a certain set of drivers it broke Crossfire and the benchmark tool since people before that could run everything maxxed out with the tool.

So yeah disable AA in the Benchmark tool and Crossfire should work .

You can always compare the numbers to 580 SLI with no AA to balance things out for the time being .

 

Crysis 2 max 80 fps now???

 

Well it should get 80 fps with dual card as 47 on single. its with high tex. and dx 11? cosz im gettin about 37 to 40 fps on dual 6990m

 

My dreams will turn into reality.

So speedy, Crysis 2 is getting consistent 80fps?

 

For consistency purposes, I re-ran my Crysis2 Bench but this time with the new 301.42 whql driver and no gpu OC/lvl 3 cpu/ran on laptop display 1920x1080 instead of my external. Exact same settings as your post. More or less exactly the same as your previous results....53fps+

 

Wow, that's pretty darned amazing consistency between systems. Nearly identical, which makes the data very relevant and reliable.

To Speedy's point, I observe slightly higher FPS while gaming also. I think that is fairly normal and has to do with what you are doing while playing the game... more random, whereas the benchmark is highly structured. I get higher FPS while playing Crysis (1) than I do running when running the Crysis benchmark, too.

 

this may answer some questions is the benchmark like Quad and ichime said

single 7970m Crysis2 2012-05-22 18-23-43-49 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Xfire 7970m Crysis2 2012-05-22 18-27-13-59 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!