Quick question. Would the new dx11 patch work better with a hd 5970 or crossfire 5870. I have 1 5870 now, but i heard somewhere that it needed 1.5gb of memory to run smoothly and I know that crossfiring 2 1gb cards wont help that. Which one do you recommend?

AMD Phenom II 6X Black
16GB Ram

Yup you're gonna need at least 1.5, 1.2 - 1.3 for the MP, Oh yeah, in case it helps, the gtx 580 cannot max this game.

Quick question. Would the new dx11 patch work better with a hd 5970 or crossfire 5870. I have 1 5870 now, but i heard somewhere that it needed 1.5gb of memory to run smoothly and I know that crossfiring 2 1gb cards wont help that. Which one do you recommend?

AMD Phenom II 6X Black
16GB Ram

i'm afraid cf 5870 wont bring 2 gb vram, it will be only regarded as 2x1g vram, the memory cant be shared by another gpu.

Yup you're gonna need at least 1.5, 1.2 - 1.3 for the MP, Oh yeah, in case it helps, the gtx 580 cannot max this game.
Hey SLI, can't you max out the game? i can max it out and average 40-50fps...

weird.. :S

Yup you're gonna need at least 1.5, 1.2 - 1.3 for the MP, Oh yeah, in case it helps, the gtx 580 cannot max this game.
Hey SLI, can't you max out the game? i can max it out and average 40-50fps?

weird.. :S

Yes i read somewhere else, a single 580 can barely play this game at max on 1920x1080 res. Ive seen reports that the dx11 + high res pack uses all 1.5GB of your video ram. I havent tried the game out with the new patches cos im still at work, but from the looks of it, it seems that crytek is once again pushing our hardware to the limits. Though not as bad as how it was with crysis 1.

Yup you're gonna need at least 1.5, 1.2 - 1.3 for the MP, Oh yeah, in case it helps, the gtx 580 cannot max this game.
Hey SLI, can't you max out the game? i can max it out and average 40-50fps?

weird.. :S

Yes i read somewhere else, a single 580 can barely play this game at max on 1920x1080 res. Ive seen reports that the dx11 + high res pack uses all 1.5GB of your video ram. I havent tried the game out with the new patches cos im still at work, but from the looks of it, it seems that crytek is once again pushing our hardware to the limits. Though not as bad as how it was with crysis 1.

Hmm, well maybe you should disable v-sync, because with v-sync disabled im getting smooth gameplay...

and ive got a 480 which is 15-20 % slower with a slight OC

i play with vsync enabled to remove tearing, i disable triple buffering to get best mouse response, earlier today io nearly fryed the card @ 88C, i for got to put fan at max.
i'm volted @ 1.05 again with 890 GPU clock speed, strange thing is when you OC the VRAM the stuttering slow FPS happen?
anyways, post processing to lowest but tweaked in game.cfg, and shadows to extreme, playing the MP you really need it smoother than hell.

Radeon 6990, 4GB of GLORY!

i play with vsync enabled to remove tearing, i disable triple buffering to get best mouse response, earlier today io nearly fryed the card @ 88C, i for got to put fan at max.
i'm volted @ 1.05 again with 890 GPU clock speed, strange thing is when you OC the VRAM the stuttering slow FPS happen?
anyways, post processing to lowest but tweaked in game.cfg, and shadows to extreme, playing the MP you really need it smoother than hell.
oh okay, true that

perhaps your vram gets a bit unstable when you oc? thats what it sounds like

my oc is 800/1600/2000

so yeah, im thinking of getting the Zalman VF3000F cooler for it though, load temps at 60 degrees !!

Radeon 6990, 4GB of GLORY!
i'd be jealous if it werent amd

Radeon 6990, 4GB of GLORY!
i'd be jealous if it werent amd

shut up

Radeon 6990, 4GB of GLORY!
i'd be jealous if it werent amd

shut up
;D

..perhaps your vram gets a bit unstable when you oc? thats what it sounds like

my oc is 800/1600/2000

so yeah...
Should i speed the VRAM up, i've OCed to 900MHz on the GPU, VRAM is at stock, voltage 1.063.
Game still crashes, other folks reporting same, i was gonna up CPU voltage.
Sorry for thread hijack.

..perhaps your vram gets a bit unstable when you oc? thats what it sounds like

my oc is 800/1600/2000

so yeah...
Should i speed the VRAM up, i've OCed to 900MHz on the GPU, VRAM is at stock, voltage 1.063.
Game still crashes, other folks reporting same, i was gonna up CPU voltage.
Sorry for thread hijack.

I wouldnt up the volts to much, the 580 sufferes from the same cheap VRMs the 590 does. Do at your own risk, but yea if you are crashing you keep upping the volts until stable. and if you max the volts that means you drop the core clock. You need to find the balance between the volts and core. OC the memory as a final option. Memory OC is the problem of the majority of GPU issues,

Thanks, it was the CPU i was thinking about upping the volts in more next but reading some online benchmark reviews of my card folks give it around 1.130 V, i'm only at 1.063, i'll maybe take it to 1.100 and make sure this time the fan is max.

Thanks, it was the CPU i was thinking about upping the volts in more next but reading some online benchmark reviews of my card folks give it around 1.130 V, i'm only at 1.063, i'll maybe take it to 1.100 and make sure this time the fan is max.
My 480 can be overvolted all the way to 1.135 volts, from stock 1.075

so i would up the voltage a bit, it should be fine, have a look around on forums on google like this one
http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/878941-max-voltage-gtx-580-a.html

one guy says too keep the voltage under 1.15 on air cooling,
and alot of people agree with him

so id say go up to 1.1v and stop there, and see how you go, alot of people say the 580 and 590 have weak vram clockage, so you cant clock it too much

Good Luck!!

using 1.1v at 900/1800/2004 on both my 580s atm, test run with oc_scanner for artifacts for 30 min .. 0 artifacts and WOW stopped crashing. no other game crashed even at 1.063v or 1.088v. diff GPU′s need different amount voltage, but like CryCizm said not above 1.1v atleast not on air:>
OC any ram is kinda dodgy but u get most gain OCing gpu and shader speed and rather little from OCing vram anyhow. just check with 3dmark or something similar:)

So im gunna have to buy hd 5980 to get the performance up, or will the xfire be enough to not need the extra memory?

I meant 5970

using 1.1v at 900/1800/2004 on both my 580s atm
I upped my GPU Voltage too, sorted now, nice smooth gameplay no crashes.

using 1.1v at 900/1800/2004 on both my 580s atm
I upped my GPU Voltage too, sorted now, nice smooth gameplay no crashes.
your welcome lol

Problem with the 5970 is that the two GPU′s share the VRam, so 2GB total counts as 1GB each (basiclly dual card store stuff twice...like it would if it was 2 single gpu in SLI or xfire) So if u got 1gb on ur current, u still would kinda have 1gb max to spend:)

Same with 6990 it has 4GB memory, but its splitt and counts as 2GB on each gpu and u cant use more than 2GB, since it stores all twice:P

Ideal i guess is getting a card that has 1.5GB vram on a single gpu or 3GB on a dual-gpu card:)

Cards with most vram per single gpu atm is the 3GB nvidia 580s:>

I wanted to try to stick with Radeon since I built my whole system around AMD, but I just dont want a conflict if I switch to Nvidia.

Problem with the 5970 is that the two GPU′s share the VRam, so 2GB total counts as 1GB each (basiclly dual card store stuff twice...like it would if it was 2 single gpu in SLI or xfire) So if u got 1gb on ur current, u still would kinda have 1gb max to spend:)

Same with 6990 it has 4GB memory, but its splitt and counts as 2GB on each gpu and u cant use more than 2GB, since it stores all twice:P

Ideal i guess is getting a card that has 1.5GB vram on a single gpu or 3GB on a dual-gpu card:)

Cards with most vram per single gpu atm is the 3GB nvidia 580s:>

Thats not a problem at all. It would be better if it was all one but its hardly a problem.

I read that the 5970 is dual gpu, but each gpu has 2gb.

"Built on the 40 nm process, these GPUs will feature 1600 stream processors each, and will each have a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface to connect to 2 GB of memory (4 GB total on card). The clock speeds are where the specifications of these GPUs differ from their single-GPU avatar, the Radeon HD 5870. The core is clocked at 725 MHz, while the memory runs at 1000 MHz (4000 MHz effective). "

You guys are gunna have to help me figure this one out since I'm not a genius when it comes to this stuff.