Crossfire support?

[Stildawn]

Hi All

After much testing I think I can safely assume that Warband does not support crossfire? It runs terrible with my cards in crossfire. With crossfire disabled it runs awesome...

This sucks though as it still lags in massive battles (I have my battle limit set to 400) when I personally dont think it should on my system.

My system:
AMD Phenom II x4 955
Asus M4A79T Deluxe  Motherboard
Gskill 4gb DDR3 1600 Ram
Gigabyte HD 6850's in crossfire

 

[? M]

I can't help you with your crossfire problem but unless it's a major hassle to disable crossfire I'd just do that. Even in large battles Warband won't come anywhere near stretching either of your 6850s.

The lag problems you're having in 400 man battles are much more likely to be down to your processor, and since you mention you have a:

AMD Phenom II x4 955

you should try this:

Windows 7 ultimate 64x
        QuadCore AMD Phenom II X4 Black Edition 955, 800 MHz (4 x 200)
Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe  (2 PCI, 4 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)
AMD 790FX, AMD K10
ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series  (1024 MB)
        4gb Ram

Hi, something came to mind because of a problem I have with a Phenom II X4 BE 965 that might be causing this (probably not but can't hurt to try).

When I run Warband, it will only use one core even with force single threading unchecked. Even in normal multiplayer games that core is more or less maxed most of the time, so I imagine in single player with a lot of units and AI calculations going on that's only made worse and might cause some stutter when approaching. There is a simple way to fix it only using one core:

First see if it IS only using core 0 by bringing up windows task manager (ctrl + shift + esc) and going to the Performance tab. It shows a graph for each of your processor's cores. Run warband in windowed mode with task manager still open and run around a bit in game, then tab out to the task manager. If the first core has high usage and the others little to none, then you have this problem.

To fix it, go to the task manager's Processes tab after starting warband and find mb_warband.exe in the list. Right click it and click Set Affinity. Untick every core but the first (core 0), and click ok. Go back into Set Affinity and tick every core again and click ok. After doing that, warband makes uses of all my cores properly.

 

[Stildawn]

Yeah i do just run in not in crossfire... Just annoying you know not getting use outta the second card at all and actually making it worse...

Ok... Thanks for the CPU tip I will certainly give that a go cause I have always wondered why the hell a game such as warband lags so much on my high end machine lol.