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Crossfire makes the game unplayable - hard locks and game runs at 6fps
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Mizuki
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2011-12-10 18:03:54 UTC
I've tried using the latest AMD drivers up to the 11.11c, and playing with crossfire enabled results in random hard locks or randomly when undocking, the game will suddenly run at 6fps with my GPU at 99% utilization.

I also get red texture flashes when running full-screen and crossfire enabled, but changing like presentation interval will temporarily fix the issue - docking/undocking again may cause the bug to re-appear.

I submitted a new bug report about this: 122425, but I've been sending in bug reports since the new shaders went live on Sisi and these issues were not resolved going live. EVE is the only game that has these problems, as I can run BF3 with crossfire enabled, which taxes both GPUs at 99%.

I also tend to get hard locks randomly playing full-screen when like ratting, when there are many explosions going on from the missiles. It's impossible to play in large scale fleets with crossfire enabled, as jumping into a system with a few hundred hostiles on screen causes immediate BSOD (atikmdag.sys) or hard-lock (causing a need to reboot).

Specs:
Core i7 920 @ 4Ghz (water cooled)
2x MSI Lightning 6970
EVGA Classified 3-way SLI (NB/SB & Mosfet watercooled)
Enermax MAXREVO 1.35Kw PSU, plugged into a Cyberpower 900w UPS
Win7 Ultimate 64bit
i5L4NDOF5T4BiLiTY
sHaKeDoWn..
#2 - 2011-12-10 18:37:26 UTC
The red flashy texture mess on Crossfire systems, is a DEV confirmed problem https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=39261&p=3 its been fixed on the lastest SISI build (Ive not tested, to see if true).
The BSOD and 6 fps problem, I dont think any of us in that thread have had that, so I dont know whats going on there.
Mizuki
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2011-12-10 18:57:31 UTC
i5L4NDOF5T4BiLiTY wrote:
The red flashy texture mess on Crossfire systems, is a DEV confirmed problem https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=39261&p=3 its been fixed on the lastest SISI build (Ive not tested, to see if true).
The BSOD and 6 fps problem, I dont think any of us in that thread have had that, so I dont know whats going on there.


Yeah I don't know what to make of it. I'm still trying drivers as they come out, but it sucks that I can only use one video card without making the whole system unstable.
Mizuki
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2011-12-11 18:47:00 UTC
Ok I disabled crossfire, but I am still getting 6fps when in the station hangar or in space. If I switch to the captain's quarters, I am getting 60fps while windowed on a single GPU.

This is a bit absurd and don't understand what is happening. So far every time this happens I have to re-start the client. It won't happen every time, but more often than not.
Regat Kozovv
Alcothology
#5 - 2011-12-11 20:05:04 UTC
I'm reporting the same issues.

Since the Crucible launch, I've been having tremendous load on my Crossfire system. According to the CCC application, I'm running near 100% utilization on a single card, but 0% on the other. My temperatures have spiked to 100C before I started using Speedfan to artifically set the Fan high (and vent cold air in from the outside. =P )

I am using the 11.11 drivers along with the latest Crossfire (CAP2) profiles.

My setup is a pair of AMD 4890s on a X58 board, i7-960.

I had no issues to report prior to this expansion, and other games work fine without this degree of load. A second PC running a single AMD 6770 and the same 11.11 drivers shows no issues.

I'll try tweaking some settings to see if there's something in particular that's throwing this off.
Romeo Deluxe
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#6 - 2011-12-12 18:39:23 UTC
In the Catalyst controls do you have AA enabled? Maybe try putting those to "application controlled", if it gives you that, or "performance".
Mizuki
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2011-12-13 00:33:27 UTC
Romeo Deluxe wrote:
In the Catalyst controls do you have AA enabled? Maybe try putting those to "application controlled", if it gives you that, or "performance".


I always leave CCC as application controlled, but I've had nothing but problems since the expansion. The weird thing is that this problem goes away in Captain's Quarters, but ship hangar or space it re-occurs.
Professor Alphane
Les Corsaires Diable
#8 - 2011-12-13 15:15:52 UTC
Given what you've said regarding captains quarters, I'm assuming that this is somehow tied in with other GUI problems CCP are experiencing. Give the new build on Sisi a go and see if that has helped , if not bug report it there as they should be monitering closely for graphics issues during the test of that build.

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