6970m Crossfire tips?

Hey guys,

I'm curious if you are satisfied with your 6970m Crossfire setup, and what you play/use it for.

In my case the 6970m perform great, but only FPS wise. In BF3 I achieve a constant 60+ FPS with my mix of high/ultra settings, but I get annoying microstuttering + screen tearing regardless of what I do (Vsync is no help as I can't bear the input delay which comes with it, not even if you cap the framerate 1 frame under your monitors refresh rate which reduces it a bit).
I've turned off HT and stuff, tried D3DOverrider with forced Triplebuffering but it only helped little. It literally feels smoother if I disable CrossfireX, get only half the FPS (40-50 instead of 80) but it feels so much smoother when turning around.

In Skyrim its a similar story: FPS is great but with Crossfire enabled I get this flickering. Tried every driver and every CAP, every option and tweak and even installed Windows 8 + fresh Skyrim install to see if it helps, but the annoying flickering at the menu remains. Only help - disabling crossfire which can't be an option.

Crysis 2 performs great, no bugs or glitches, same story with RAGE (meanwhile).

Overall I'm disappointed by AMD's support, since they didn't fix Skyrim's flickering after more then half a year now, and its a game I'd like to play as no other. But here you can blame Bethseda's engine which is really not optimized. However BF3 has no excuse, the game runs perfectly fine with vsync but without it's nearly not playable, which clearly isn't something minor to put up with in a MP game.

So are there any tweaks I could try to smooth out the performance with the cards without vsync in BF3, and does anyone knows how to deal with Skyrim's flicker without having to roll back to 11.10 (which was the last driver that came without the flickering).
Or any nice Windows tweaks I could apply to my fresh install to boost performance? I already kill Windows Aero while gaming.

 

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Those problems seem to be common with the newer games. I think Bytales on the forum had the same setup and listed the same issues. He was only able to solve it in some games by running a single card instead of crossfire. I don't know of any other tweaks though, except to wait for AMD to fix those issues via new drivers. It's an unfortunate problem with Crossfire/SLI setups that affects certain programs and not others. Nvidia is usually quick to fix stuttering with driver updates.

 

Thanks for the response!
Too bad... my first time going with the red team. Initially I was amazed how well these cards played Bad Company 2 (which is a console port), no microstuttering or whatsoever!
Not sure if I would buy another AMD product since they really lack a good driver departement, their hardware alone is very nice. But would 1 7970m fit my x7200 case? And how would the performance be compared to 2x 6970m?

 

There's no way to know for sure until they're released and tested, but it looks like the 7970 should work as a direct replacement. They're also rumored to be almost as powerful as a Crossfire 6990 setup, so it may very well be a worthy single card upgrade.

 

Alright, I'll wait a few weeks then