Graphics Card Trouble, Need Insight!

[PostalTwinkie]

A couple of things to note;

First, the Benchmark they released is FAR from accurate, the performance seen in it is nothing like what you will see in the actual game. So ignore what it is saying completely!

This game seems pretty CPU heavy, and tends to scale well with higher clocked and higher end CPUs. Obviously GPU does impact performance, but if you are sitting at a system with a pretty high end GPU and a moderate CPU, you will see more gain by dropping in a higher end CPU than making an incremental upgrade on the GPU.

Crossfire performance in this game is currently garbage; even after pretty much every attempt to resolve it the scaling isn't that great and micro-stuttering is still an issue. Using the 13.4 or 13.6 drivers, with the SWTOR profile to using the latest 13.8 beta v2 drivers with ULPS disabled, it doesn't matter. Load across GPUs isn't well balanced, and as just mentioned, micro-stuttering. Even in the best case scenario, scaling with Crossfire in game is weak, although amazing in the Benchmark.

Quick specs of my system:
i5 2500K @ 4.6Ghz
8GB RAM @ 1866Mhz
2 x 7970 @ 1200Mhz.
FFXIV installed on a SSD.
2560x1440 S-IPS @ 120Hz

OP; What I am getting at is due to optimization, the best thing would be to scale down as many settings as you can. Turn off visual effects on non-party members, turn off SSAO, turn down shadows, etc etc.