SLI/Crossfire works?

[Katlan]

Unless your playing w/either AO or DoF you wont notice much diff w/ SLI. Its still nice since each gpu will be using less overall load though. But w/o AO your gpu's won't exceed about 60%, even when you are under fps cap, since the game is basically as overly CPU dependent as XI was

[Caestus]

my settings are set to max.... pretty much everything I have a i7 920 CPU so my processor is fine... Typically around 20-30% CPU usage at all times

[Villian]

Will crossfire 5870 run 14 with AO well? I have some kind of problem with the game, it's shaky at any ground that isn't smooth but the problem goes away when AO is turned on. Thinking of crossfire 5870 so my fps wont be at 15-25 with AO on.

[Katlan]

I wouldn't rly worry about AO, I hardly see a diff... Such a negligable diff that it's not worth taking SSs of on/off to compare

[Villian]

Me too but my screen doesn't shake when I have AO on thou. (sorry if i hijack this threadlol)

[Katlan]

The screen tearing is because of no vertical sync, u can always go to the nvidia control panel and force ot on

[Villian]

Mine is ati and it's on. (i think) Not sure how to turn it on but I have "Wait for vertical refresh" at always on in the catalyst control center.

[ChocoFeru]

If SE plans to make this game Full-Screen friendly (not breaking the game if you tab) I'd get a second card as well!

Works fine with 5870, 1920x1200 AAx8 no AO, I even tried to put AAx0 and going Double Buffer and it works well too (using 99% of GPU tough).
The problem are FPS. I get 60FPS on some places like outside ul'dah, even with players, but gets to 18-30 on city, crystals etc... even if there's nobody around, it just doesn't matter.

So I was planning to get a second card to solve it, I don't really know If it'll increase that much, or everyone has this problem (even with dual 480 cards)

[Cooleko]

You wont have that problem with dual 480s

[Caestus]

Seeing as how we have some down time... does this all look correct?

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/2852/slic.png

http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/4366/settings2.png

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/6061/settingss.png

any suggestions?

[Cooleko]

If you have AO on I dont think you need triple buffering and forced vsync. Dont see any tearing with AO same settings.

[Caestus]

I can't get this profile to work... any ideas why?

Profile "Final Fantasy XIV" UserSpecified=true
ShowOn All
ProfileType Application
Executable "ffxivgame.exe"
Executable "ffxivwinbenchmark.exe"
Setting ID_0x0019bb68 = 0x00000001 UserSpecified=true
Setting ID_0x0095def9 = 0x00010000
Setting ID_0x00a879cf = 0x47814940 UserSpecified=true
Setting ID_0x00e5c6c0 = 0x00000000 UserSpecified=true
Setting ID_0x1033cec1 = 0x00000003
Setting ID_0x1033ced1 = 0x00000003 UserSpecified=true
Setting ID_0x1033dcd1 = 0x00000002 UserSpecified=true
Setting ID_0x1033dcd2 = 0x00000004
Setting ID_0x1095def8 = 0x02400001
Setting ID_0x200aebfc = 0x00000000 UserSpecified=true
Setting ID_0x20c1221e = 0x00000002 UserSpecified=true
Setting ID_0x20fdd1f9 = 0x00000001 UserSpecified=true
EndProfile


Edit: Using this seems to work...

Profile "Final Fantasy XIV" UserSpecified=true
ShowOn All
ProfileType Application
Executable "ffxivgame.exe"
Executable "ffxivbenchmark.exe"
Setting ID_0x0076e164 = 0x00000009
Setting ID_0x00a06946 = 0x000240f5
Setting ID_0x00a879cf = 0x47814940 UserSpecified=true
Setting ID_0x1033cec1 = 0x00000003
Setting ID_0x1033cec2 = 0x00000002
Setting ID_0x1033dcd2 = 0x00000004
Setting ID_0x1033dcd3 = 0x00000004
Setting ID_0x10930f46 = 0x00000089
Setting ID_0x1095def8 = 0x02506405
Setting ID_0x10ecdb82 = 0x00040000
Setting ID_0x20fdd1f9 = 0x00000001 UserSpecified=true
EndProfile

still trying to figure out the best settings

[Cooleko]

I dont know where you got your profile setup but this one works.

[Caestus]

I was actually using that one, I didn't notice much so I was trying different profiles. I got SLI working in the benchmark which scores me about 1k extra.

[JRice]

If using SLI game must be running fullscreen, Can't run SLI or Xfire in DX9 Windowed. I would probably get another 470 if SE fixes the alt+tab problem because sometimes randomly i crash out with the directx error cause someone is messaging me etc etc. Can't exactly call it a deterrent for 3rd party programs when they allow it to run windowed.

[Caestus]

This is in Windowed Mode... using the Windower guys "Full Screen" Fix

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/9383/itworks.th.png

Working amazing

[Cooleko]

Links in your post would be nice for others who have your problem.

[JRice]

umm thats still windowed mode, just taking off the borders doesn't mean its actually full screen and its all good having usage in both GPU's as well but without displaying fps it doesn't really show if it is actually working. However what windower are you using? maybe one actually did make a true full screen fix recently.