August 13, 201015 yr Hi all,Since i own a HD4850X2 i was curious if crossfire was working in some of my other games (yes i know, fsx doesn't support it).Using CPU-Z i noticed that in fact it wasn't in any of my games, which is strange, cause some of them definately support it.After some reading, i found out i had to download the ATI application profiles, which enable crossfire support.Something i actually had never done before, even though i have my HD4850X2 for quite some time!To enable the feature, i also had to enable the Catalyst A.I (advanced) option in the Catalyst Control Center, after which i indeed had crossfire support for a couple of games.But the best part had yet to come!When i fired up FSX after installing the application profiles and setting the Catalyst settings as described above, i noticed my framerate in fsx had drastically improved!!!I gained a minimum of 5+ fps in the worst possible situation (MyTraffic 5.3 + PMDG 747 + NL2000 + UTX NightLightning + ASE Weather + REX Textures + FS Global) while approaching EHAM, which was a very welcome surpise. In other areas (fsx default sceanry and plane) i actually gained like 10+ frames going from around 30fps to nearly 50 fps!In fact, after using al kind of tweaks and hardware upgrades i never experienced this much of a gain in framerate (besides going to i7).I also tried forcing crossfire on fsx using Crossfire Xtension, which didn't work, BUT it did reveal that a fsx profile was present (as well as a FS9) which explaines my gain in frames.I'm posting this because i'm sure i'm not the only one out there who never knew you had to install these application profiles. So if you didn't and own an ATI card, i suggest you try it and see if it works for you!Happy flying!!!
August 15, 201015 yr Commercial Member Veeeery Interesting. Are you using more than one monitor in your set up?Clutch Intel i9-12900KF, Asus Prime Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, (3) SK hynix M.2 SSD (2TB ea.), 16TB Seagate HDD, Gigabyte GeForce 5080 RTX, Corsair iCUE H70i AIO Liquid Cooler, UHD/Blu-ray Player/Burner (still have lots of CDs, DVDs!) Windows 10, (hold off for now on Win11), EVGA 1300W PSUNetgear 1Gbps modem & router, (3) 27" 1440 wrap-around displaysFull array of Bravo, Saitek and GoFlight hardware for the cockpit. Varjo and HP VR headsets for mixed reality.
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