Xfire reduces ArmA performance?

[Tankbuster 1746]

Has anyone else noticed this?

I know my system isn't optimised, but I'm usually looking at 30 FPS in open country with VD set at 3000. If I run Xfire, this drops to 20 or so. Through the scope, it's down to 10.

It's a shame because the flashback function of the video recorder in Xfire is wonderful.

[ck-claw 1]

I know a few ppl that will turn off xfire when starting Arma.

[Infam0us 10]

Has anyone else noticed this?

I know my system isn't optimised, but I'm usually looking at 30 FPS in open country with VD set at 3000. If I run Xfire, this drops to 20 or so. Through the scope, it's down to 10.

It's a shame because the flashback function of the video recorder in Xfire is wonderful.

I don't notice any difference when its running or taking screenshots. But when it takes videos it kills FPS, for example. My friend was running ArmA on Full Spec with 60 Frames in the North everything on Very High. He records with X-Fire and it goes down to 10 lol.

[max power 21]

My crossfire boards used to get all kinds of weird results like sometimes crossfire would fail to start, etc. I think this is becuase there's no crossfire driver support for ArmA. If you copy the ArmA exe and rename the copy FEAR.exe or AFR-friendlyD3D.exe and point your shortcut to that it will enable some driver optimizations that will work for ArmA. I definitely did get some performance gains with my crossfire set up after that.

[SWAT_BigBear 0]

uhhhh, plaintiff1.......they are referring to Xfire, not crossfire.

I haven't used Xfire in 4-5 years. It always seemed to cause some kind of problems, while gaming, back then.

[Tankbuster 1746]

I'm glad it's not just me. Thanks for all your replies, guys.

I did some testing yesterday. I'll just give you a brief run-down of the 2 machines involved;

Mine, C2D E6600 @ stock, 8800GTX, 2 gig of RAM and XPPro SP2.

Mate C2Q Q6600 @ overclock, X1950 Pro, 2 gig of RAM and XPPro SP2.

Server running DMsmoke. We both used the Flashback option in Xfire.

We set up a few testing grounds using Domination. Here's our results.

1. Actually starting recording had little or effect on FPS.

2. My Duo suffered from just having Xfire running. It lost around 25% but the video options were tweaked (turned off AA, PP etc) to recover those lost FPS

3. Mates Quad didn't really care about Xfire running. He reported a difference of less than 5% in FPS, something he's prepared to lose.

4. Xfire voice comms is too expensive in terms of RAM and CPU usage. Yes it offers higher voice quality, but Teamspeak, with it's server functionality (in Xfire, a client has to host) get's our vote for comms.

Now, given that the Flashback offers wonderful functionality that we only previously had in the hideously complex Gamecam, I think a slight drop in FPS is a price I'm prepared to pay.

[max power 21]

uhhhh, plaintiff1.......they are referring to Xfire, not crossfire.

I haven't used Xfire in 4-5 years. It always seemed to cause some kind of problems, while gaming, back then.

Haha! My mistake!

[ShrubMiK 0]

Interesting...I run with xfire on all the time, and we used to use it for the convenient voice comms a lot too prior to the current patch. Never noticed a significant drop in FPS as a result, maybe I should test again.