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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | FSX with or without crossfire
DVA6276
Captain, MD-88
OLP

Joined on August 15 2008
Double Century Club
Online Double Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
B737 100 Club

Boca Raton, FL

233 legs, 768.8 hours
215 legs, 733.2 hours online
223 legs, 749.2 hours ACARS
4 legs, 7.9 hours event
 Posted onPost created on September 16 2012 11:52 ET by David Zambrano
A question for people who have dual AMD cards.

I have 2 HD6970s, 2GB each. Will it benefit fsx performance-wise if I had crossfire off or on?

David Zambrano

Captain, MD-88
AFV313
Senior Captain, B737-800

Joined on June 11 2010
Diplomatic Mission
Pushing Tin Club
Online Millenium Club
Globetrotter Extraordinaire
The Penguins Of Madagascar
Double Millenium Club
50 State Club
Boeing Buckle Down
Four Million Mile Club
GVA 10 Year Anniversary

"Come fly with me, lets fly, lets fly away!"
Howick, KwaZulu-Natal ZA

2,941 legs, 9,560.6 hours
1,901 legs, 5,926.6 hours online
2,853 legs, 9,199.0 hours ACARS
58 legs, 272.0 hours event
350 legs dispatched, 155.5 hours
 Posted onPost created on September 16 2012 12:23 ET by Robert Armstrong
I'm not a person with dual AMD cards, but I can say that FSX doesnt rely too much on Graphics performance, its more about the CPU clock speed than anything else
DVA6276
Captain, MD-88
OLP

Joined on August 15 2008
Double Century Club
Online Double Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
B737 100 Club

Boca Raton, FL

233 legs, 768.8 hours
215 legs, 733.2 hours online
223 legs, 749.2 hours ACARS
4 legs, 7.9 hours event
 Posted onPost created on September 16 2012 18:58 ET by David Zambrano
I know that, I was wondering if by any chance crossfire might cripple performance.

David Zambrano

Captain, MD-88
DVA3196
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP, COMM

Joined on June 03 2006
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
Six Century Club

"pitchpowertrim.com"
Anderson, MO

619 legs, 1,093.4 hours
292 legs, 503.1 hours online
580 legs, 1,026.5 hours ACARS
89 legs, 191.0 hours event
236 legs dispatched, 110.1 hours
 Posted onPost created on September 16 2012 19:11 ET by Michael Brown
If you have the two cards why not just try it and see for yourself? confused


DVA6276
Captain, MD-88
OLP

Joined on August 15 2008
Double Century Club
Online Double Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
B737 100 Club

Boca Raton, FL

233 legs, 768.8 hours
215 legs, 733.2 hours online
223 legs, 749.2 hours ACARS
4 legs, 7.9 hours event
 Posted onPost created on September 16 2012 21:36 ET by David Zambrano
Because at the same time I'm messing with Xtreme FSX PC and changing the buffer size. I'm getting different results but it seems to load textures faster with crossfire.

David Zambrano

Captain, MD-88
DVA9716
First Officer, A330-300

Joined on April 26 2011
50 State Club
Century Club
Online Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

"Take Offs are optional - Landing are mandatory!"
Killeen, TX USA

154 legs, 324.0 hours
102 legs, 218.1 hours online
153 legs, 321.7 hours ACARS
4 legs, 8.9 hours event
 Posted onPost created on September 17 2012 10:22 ET by Kenneth Dickerson
I built a machine a few years back that was cross-fire found out that it dod nothing for my frame rates when it came to FSX. Flight Sim is a CPU hog. That being said a good strong graphics car is still needed. But the true power to FSX is the GPU and memory. Third on the list to improve performance is a decent fast hard drive, you dont need a SSD but a good old fashion platter drive but one that has a 32mb cache and spins as fast as the N2 on a turbine engine 7200 rpm drive.

Kenneth Dickerson

First Officer, A330-300
DVA9545
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP, 737-ATP

Joined on March 03 2011
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Quad-Jet Quartermaster
US Coastal Club
US Mountaineer Club
Million Mile Club
Events Double Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Toulouse 500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Online Twenty Century

"YUPIIIII"
Goiás Brazil

2,507 legs, 5,067.5 hours
2,336 legs, 4,789.1 hours online
2,499 legs, 5,037.9 hours ACARS
271 legs, 683.8 hours event
 Posted onPost created on September 18 2012 00:17 ET by Thiago Braga
FSX is old program and does not support crossfiring.


DVA4180
Senior Captain, MD-88
OLP

Joined on March 08 2007
Online Century Club
Long Beach Century Club
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

"Have A&P - Will work for peanuts!"
Van Buren Charter Township, MI

351 legs, 783.1 hours
193 legs, 388.4 hours online
340 legs, 759.3 hours ACARS
20 legs, 41.0 hours event
 Posted onPost created on September 18 2012 02:06 ET by Joseph Schwab
Thiago Braga wrote:

FSX is old program and does not support crossfiring.


He's right.. I had 2 cards on my last system, NO HELP.



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