How do i know if am using my graphic at its best?

[Diabolical]

For some reason i get the feeling that am not using my graphic card full potiental, becuase i have dual Ati 5970's and when i play napoleon total war, my whole pc just shuts down when i zoom all the way in, also, when i benchmarked it on 3D setting thing that i downloaded, it was only giving me 32 Fps, with a resolution of 1024 X 768, and ive gone to youtube and i seened that these cards could do alot better then that... and i lagg a bit, or my game crashes when i play crysis at ultra high settings, and i seened people play crysis at ultra high setting with good fps with only 1 5970, and i have 2, can anybody tell me a way to find out if my graphic cards are working properly? or am i using it at its full power?

 

[ThePizzaMan]

first off what is your cpu? and the rest of your system specs

 

[not so gray matter]

It may be that your Crossfire setup isn't working properly. I'd take out one of your graphics cards and see if the problems persist. If they don't, then you've likely got a crossfire problem. In this case you need to make sure that your motherboard supports two PCIe 2.0 x16 slots (Some support two slots but force them to run at 16x & x8 or x8 & x8), make sure that your cards are setup to use crossfire properly and make sure that both cards are functioning properly.

 

[Diabolical]

o.o

well i bought it from alienware so i doubt there is any crossfire problem, but i think i found the problem, when i click on cpuz64 to look at my processor details, the processor speed is only at 1604.0 mhz, when i first got my computer the core speed was at 3208.0, why did it drop significantly? my processor speed is i7 920 2.6ghz, ( it changes to 3.2ghz automatically when i load it)

 

[ThePizzaMan]

hm i would check the crossfire connection bridge

 

[zzz2496]

Diabolical, fill in your system specs completely. If you have TWO 5970, I assume you're not some newbie to PC gaming (who spends more than $1K just for display adapters without knowing what it's capable of?).

zzz2496

 

[Diabolical]

Hardrive - 1.15TB
GPU - Dual Ati radeon 5970 4gb
Processor - Intel i7 920 2.67ghz overclocked 3.2ghz Liquid cooled
Ram - 6gb
Power Supply - 1200 Watts
Screen Resolution 1920X1200
64 bit operating system

did i miss anything? how do i check my connection bridge thepizzaman?

 

[MistaJay]

Hardrive - 1.15TB
GPU - Dual Ati radeon 5970 4gb
Processor - Intel i7 920 2.67ghz overclocked 3.2ghz Liquid cooled
Ram - 6gb
Power Supply - 1200 Watts
Screen Resolution 1920X1200
64 bit operating system

did i miss anything? how do i check my connection bridge thepizzaman?

*Drools*

 

[Diabolical]

^^

thanks , but i need to fix it to use it

 

[zzz2496]

Diabolical, you can start with providing screenshots of device manager, especially driver versions, graphic adapter related info, GFX temps, etc...

zzz2496

 

[chev65]

Where to start. Just one of those cards should be plenty enough to play any game at just about any resolution at max settings plus some AA. The odds are good that something else in your system is holding you back. Drivers can also be a problem with those particular cards.

If it's an Alienware product you might try asking them why your system isn't performing up to your expectations. You might also try running 3Dmark Vantage because it will give you a good starting point to gage your system against systems like your own.

As for your processor speed changing. The i7 uses a turbo mode which changes the CPU multi depending on load and there is also a version of speed step and or C1E halt state which down clocks the CPU when it's idle but neither of those should be causing you any problems with your cards.

 

[joel406]

Remember it's Alienware(Dell).

No matter what it could just be a bios issue or improper overclocking. He mentioned his CPU was running at almost half what it should.

My 9800 is running better than his from what he's describing.

Nothing personal but Aleinware hasent been very reliable(particulairly their laptops).

 

[Diabolical]

o.o

here are some pictures of my computer, i could put some more, how can i run a benchmark on 3Dmark Vantage i ran a dx10 or dx11, with poor graphic at 1024x768 and it was only giving me 32fps which sucks for dual ati radeon 5970's can u give me some ideas or some things to download to check my gpus? where can i find some screen shots of device managers, graphic adapter etc.. and i cant take any photots becuase of some security reason.

 

[Diabolical]

well, i had my computer on power saving mode, not high performance, so i fix the processor thing, but i ran Napoleon total war on ultra high graphics, fog effect, heat effect, i basically put the graphics on napoleon total war as best as it can be, and i zoomed all the way in to c them battle, and my computer didnt shut down and the game didnt crash, it ran smooth, one problem i encounter is that my troops was invisible until i clicked on them, is becuase my processor to slow? or is it becuase dual ati radeon 5970's cant handle the game? might i have to overclock?

 

[ThePizzaMan]

to check the bridge just pop open the side of the case and make sure its on the cards good, and its not the gpus that are slow... unless the bridge is bad, i'd check that first then go from there

 

[Heroxoot]

You know how you know its working hard? The lil monster gets hot as hell. I know when I'm gaming maxed out mine heats up like a super model getting tan. Ohhhhhhhhhh yeaaaaa.

 

[Luckystar]

Have you updated all your drivers. Stupid question i know, but this can have an affect.

Do you play any other games, and have they got similar issues

 

[BugMeister]

don't forget to pick up the Crossfire profiles from ATI
Drivers & Support | GAME.AMD.COM

they tune the card(s) for max crossfire effects - in certain games..

more info here:
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33961798

 

[Diabolical]

yeah i downloaded the latest drivers for my graphic card, I've also downloaded some additional files, And my graphic card get hot just by having my computer on, and hotter when am playing a game. Also when i click on "Identify GPU" on my ATI Catalyst Center, a big 1 appears on my screen, does that indicates that its only finding one gpu?

 

[BugMeister]

what temperature does the card report..