5970 Quadfire Running with F1 2010

ZortB · Post by **ZortB** » 29 Sep 2010, 12:00

Is anyone out there running this game on an eyefinity set up. Tried to play and i'm getting shed loads of graphics glitches, flickering textures, disappearing objects etc. This happens on menu screens and in car, Have tried enabling/disabling vertical sync and lowering detail settings. I have also tried disabling crossfire. Works fine on 1920 x 1200.

My System is.

i7 920 @ 3.6ghz
2 x 5970 in crossfire
Screen : 5812 x 1200 (Dell 2407wfp/Dell 2405fpw/Dell 2407wfphc)
6gb memory
gigabyte e58 extreme mobo
Mobo sound.
Logitech g25.

Any ideas? Have been looking forwards to this game for ages and im a bit miffed that it dont. work. :(

Honiara · Post by **Honiara** » 29 Sep 2010, 18:14

I'm running F1 2010 in 3x1650x1080 (+bezel management) and it works increadibly smoothly.

Im running a i7 @ 4.0ghz, with 5850 CrossFire.

I can only assume its the 5970 CrossFire w/ Eyefinity bug that people have mentioned.

Post by **Slinky** » 29 Sep 2010, 23:52

Hell im running 3 1920x1080 screens on a single 5770 and its smooth at full settings(no AA).

ZortB · Post by **ZortB** » 30 Sep 2010, 00:07

I can only assume its the 5970 CrossFire w/ Eyefinity bug that people have mentioned.

Got to say i'm a bit peeved. Only got the second card to ensure good framerates with this game.

Anyone know if a fix is in the pipeline. If not i might sell the cards and get a couple of 5870s as it looks like i will get decent frame rates with these.

green_comet · Post by **green_comet** » 30 Sep 2010, 02:18

I made a video of my setup.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbI5ZCZF0oo

F12010 runs pretty crappy for me, I had to force crossfire support and even then it's not perfect. I haven't even been able to finish a single race due to it always crashing.

roadracer1977 · Post by **roadracer1977** » 15 Oct 2010, 14:33

Hi there,

I'm running 2x Sapphire 5970's 2GB versions in crossfire / quadfire.
I'm getting really slow framerates e.g. 10 - 17fps when running F1 2010 in my eyefinity set-up. I have to run multisampling off, v-sync off and all the detail settings to low to acheive anything half playable, and even then it is dropping lots of frames round corners and so on basically rendering the game unplayable.
I've got CCC 10.9 and application profiles 10.9a for F1 2010 installed.

Now the weird thing is when i take out one of the 5970's and run just the single card it runs in nearly highest detail settings with multisampling a 2x and v-sync on at 49 - 59 FPS which is acceptable.

I just don't know why when i add the 2nd card that is supposed to improve performance by 50% it actually decresaes performance by 50%

All my machine specs should be in my signature, so if anyone has experienced this before and knows the answers i'd really appreciate it.

Post by **Tamlin** » 16 Oct 2010, 03:57

:welcome

Sig too big. :)

Please make it shorter according to guidelines:

Signatures are available - please do not abuse them. There is a 512 character limit if using that many characters, please choose a font-size small enough so that your signature is not too large. Putting your specs in your signature is highly encouraged, as it makes it easier to help! NO IMAGES!: (CPU, RAM, Mobo, Graphics card, monitor, PSU etc...)

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2722

Try using 10.10 beta with the updated 10.9a profiles from the 13th:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=330602
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx

Works wonder I've heard. :)

roadracer1977 · Post by **roadracer1977** » 19 Oct 2010, 16:37

Thanks for your message.

I've tried that and it's still not working better with 2 cards.

Please can someone help me with this?

roadracer1977 · Post by **roadracer1977** » 20 Oct 2010, 12:08

yes, i have a similar set-up to you and am experiencing the same problems - if you find a solution please let me know. I've even spoken to ATi who said they would get back to me sometime this week.

My system spec is in my signature, but to cut a long story short i've had to take out one of my 5970's from the motherboard. The game now runs ok , but I can't run it in full detail.

X3R Kefran · Post by **X3R Kefran** » 23 Oct 2010, 00:23

Unfortunately, there is no solution to your issue. I have looked for it during months. Quadfire (or 2 x 5970) + Eyefinity has never been correctly supported.

- At that stage, crossfire is nearly correctly supported (even if we could argue)
- Quadfire is correct in some games with some versions of the drivers but horrible in most cases
- Tri-fire is somewhere in between

I had 2 x 5970 since january and I finally sadly decided to sell one of them due the lack of hope in proper quafire + eyefinity in a near future.
I keep the money for the future dual GPU Radeon 6000 card.

roadracer1977 · Post by **roadracer1977** » 26 Oct 2010, 09:33

OK an update to this thread using CCC 10.10 and 10.10a application profiles.
I'm currently running Windows 7 64bit home premium with eyefinity at 6144 x 1080 across 3 screens with bezel management.
With 2x 5970's (4gb total) - full details of my complete system spec can be found in my signature.

1st test - Running 1 screen with crossfireX enabled 1920 x 1080.
FRAPS showing in-menu FPS as high as 600!
In game smooth as silk highest detail settings, 8xMSAA, V-sync on - however i didn't have MSi Afterburner running on this test.

2nd test - Running 3 screens in eyefinity
Detail settings could only be run in high with a maximum of 2x MSAA and V-sync on.
CrossfireX (Quadfire) enabled...
FRAPS showing 120FPS in-menu's
In game FRAPS would show up to 60 - 65 FPS, but there was a horrible amount of micro-stutter which made it pretty much unplayable.
MSi Afterburner graph of GPU usage below:

Note: 2 GPU's being used nearly at maximum and the other GPU's hardly being used at all.

3nd test - Running 3 screens in eyefinity, with Catalyst AI off
Detail settings could only be run in high with a maximum of 2x MSAA and V-sync on.
Catalyst ai disabled FRAPS showing 60FPS in-menu's
In game FRAPS would show up to 36 FPS, but the game was absolutely smooth as silk... No stutter at all.
MSi Afterburner graph of GPU usage below:

Note: only 1 GPU being used, but runs great, however detail isn't as high as i would like

What is the point in ATi offering the ability to crossfire 2x 5970's if it does fu*& all and is better running on a single GPU????

Post by **g00seberry** » 26 Oct 2010, 12:54

It isn't AMD per se, but F1 2010 being poorly optimised for multi-gpu. I have the same problem with nVidia cards - the same intermittent GPU usage.

A trick that worked for me was when the FPS was poor or stuttering, tab out and back into the game. Usually this doubled the FPS and smoothed it out. However, I gave up and have just been playing with 1 GPU and 1 screen as it was also crashing in surround. Cross your fingers for a patch. Cross them hard.

roadracer1977 · Post by **roadracer1977** » 26 Oct 2010, 13:39

A trick that worked for me was when the FPS was poor or stuttering, tab out and back into the game. Usually this doubled the FPS and smoothed it out. However, I gave up and have just been playing with 1 GPU and 1 screen as it was also crashing in surround. Cross your fingers for a patch. Cross them hard.

Tried this it doesn't work.

I'll be running some more tests tonight / tomorrow with a single card, and the same tests in Dirt 2.
I will also be running 3DMark06 tests and will post all of my findings.

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 26 Oct 2010, 13:40

Will be interesting to see.

Post by **g00seberry** » 27 Oct 2010, 16:06

Patch very imminent.

"Codemasters Forum" wrote:

There have also been several PC specific improvements as well:-

1. PC 'replay saving' and playback – You will be able to save out the files to replay them later or share them with others.

2. DX11 – The F1 2010 patch will enable the game to run on DX11. All of the graphical improvements are configurable from graphical options when in DX11. Specifically, "ultra" settings for 'shadows' and 'postprocess'. (These options require a lot of processing power, and are only recommended for high-end graphics cards.

3. Eyefinity Support – F1 2010 now supports 3 x 1 or 3 x 2 monitor display setups (minimum requirement of 3 x monitors)

4. Optimisations – We have made better use of multi-core processors in general, which will lead to better framerates on higher end machines.

5. Additional Support - Support for SandyBridge processors, which also adds support for currently available 'modern' processors, like Core i7, which wasn't correctly detected previously.

johnnyvd · Post by **johnnyvd** » 27 Oct 2010, 19:16

Huh? Patch to support DX11?? I thought F1 was using the Dirt2 engine? And Dirt2 supports Eyefinity already!

Dirt2 runs like a rabbit on my Quad 5970 setup.. I had to install 8G's of memory though.. Seems like the 1G per core on the VGA cards completely floods the Ram of the CPU.

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 27 Oct 2010, 19:21

DiRT2 uses the same engine as GRID, too - but DiRT2 works fine on nVidia Surround and GRID doesn't. *shrug*

Post by **Tamlin** » 27 Oct 2010, 19:33

10.10c brings improvements in this game:
AMD Catalyst 10.10c Hotfix Features:
OpenGL 4.1 beta support
Support for the new Morphological Anti-Aliasing feature
Dead Rising 2 – Crossfire profile (Resolves negative scaling)
Crossfire Performance Improvement for:
Metro 2033
F1 2011 - (Direct X9 version)
Fallout New Vegas
Performance optimizations for systems with an AMD Radeon™ HD 6870 and AMD Radeon HD 6850 series of graphics products installed
Aliens versus Predator performance enhancements
Star Craft 2 performance enhancements
OpenGL performance enhancements – gains can be seen in Prey, Quake Wars: Enemy Territories, and Heaven v2
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU86AMDCat1010cHotfix.aspx

Post by **dopefish** » 28 Oct 2010, 15:54

I'm posting this in this thread since it seems most relevant to it.

F1 2010 Upcoming Patch Notes

Two notable changes:
DX11 – The F1 2010 patch will enable the game to run on DX11. All of the graphical improvements are configurable from graphical options when in DX11. Specifically, "ultra" settings for 'shadows' and 'postprocess'. (These options require a lot of processing power, and are only recommended for high-end graphics cards.

Eyefinity Support – F1 2010 now supports 3 x 1 or 3 x 2 monitor display setups (minimum requirement of 3 x monitors)

Post by **g00seberry** » 28 Oct 2010, 17:16

I'm posting this in this thread since it seems most relevant to it.

I've merged the 2 threads - I didn't realise the one you posted in was there.

Because of the merger, posts may seem out of order or weird, however I think the two threads match up pretty well :onethumb

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