Dying Light - PC AMD R9 295x2 - Settings and Optimization guide for Crossfire - More FPS Guaranteed! 

+Terry Delport This was b4 the update.....

i hope you understand this is a single card setup (295x2 is a dual GPU water cooled double wide card) and not a crossfire with 2 separate cards... I agree that cooling is an issue in my setup, but playing other games I have not run into any issues. I'll continue to monitor temps and performance though. I wish I was back in seattle as my box would be a great space heater, here on oahu it's more like a sauna...

Wayne the only thing i can say is that the setting i changed in the CCC is what is enabling that other wise i'm straight stock. Remember I am using a SFF PC so i expect high temps... I also dont care about the longevity of the card i want to see it at 100% utilization if possible. also the 295x2 only has one fan which am using in a push configuration, so that might also help if you are using a pull config. in the end i cant give you a straight answer on why my card does not show signs of throttling. You should post a video of your gameplay if possible with your settings and an OSD with your FPS. It could also be my proc/ram configs that gives me an extra bump in my performance.

Yes, sadly I'm not really good at FPSs using the dual shock (or any other controller for that matter). I use a G700 Logitech Mouse with custom key bindings an a Razer Tartarus (formerly know as the Nostromo - which kinda blows due to lack of on-board memory... Story for another time..) and that works for me. Games like, ahem, CoD that are well optimized (or at least provide a 60 FPS v-sync'd experience) I feel right at home, in fact the first FPS I played was Unreal Tournament back in the early 2000's, it's kind of off putting that the developers may develop a game on a certain set of GPUs from AMD or Nvidia and leave one or the other side to deal with trying to optimize for their choice of HW. I need to test out DA:I which has "mantle" support and check its performance. I guess I may also be limited in my choice of form factors since I want my gaming box to be an small form factor PC if I had more space (and budget) I could OC my CPU because I could water cool and add an additional video card because I would have additional PCI slots. But DL is not that bad, but if we could peg those GPUs at 100% I feel that there would be no problem with consistent FPS numbers in the high 80's or 90's with v-sync and all AO and AA enabled. BTW, I really used to be into the PS3 and used the splitfish and the eagle eye to be able to have a mouse keyboard type setup and I really love the Killzone Universe. I know it won't happen but I wish that Killzone:shadow fall (PS4) would come out for the PC.... The first few levels I played were a bunch of fun and I really thought the guns and the graphics were killer but the dualshock made me feel like a newb, ahhh exclusives,,,,, I hate you!

+Ястреб How ignorant are you? This was b4 the update

He shouldnt need to tune it down. he has 2 295s ffs. this game's developer is an absolute joke.

cool I'll recheck - I did not know that Steam featured some monitoring tools, I'll definitely research that! Thanks!

Chris - I checked out the videos on your channel and they both state that you are using a GTX780. The game play looks very smooth but would you happen to be able to turn on your FPS counter using the geforce experience? Also do you have any videos with your 290x CF setup including the settings you are using? I wish I had a 2560x1440 monitor.

I just got the 290x crossfire 2 days ago haha but I was using the gtx 780

But I will post a video with it when I get a chance I'm currently trying to get it working correctly. I do have question why are your cpu temps so high?

Chris cole its most likely because I run the stock CPU heatsink. I also run a 1300W power supply in a very small case (check out this link for an idea of what it looks like with a 295x2 installed - www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2277502/elite-130-side-radiated-cooler.html - my setup is similar but not exactly the same), but I feel that the CPU temps may be a bit off - I use the ASUS AI Suite II to monitor CPU info Those temps are usually in the mid 60 degrees Celsius AI Suite throws a high temp warning at 70 degrees+ which I sometimes get when playing BF4, I usually will quit a game with the AI suite up then quickly get a temp off of the AI suite- It has never reported in the 80's so I think there may be a discrepancy between the Riva and the ASUS monitoring tool which I trust more.

You are talking about the MSI Afterburner/Riva OSD? Make sure to get the latest version as well as set the values you want to see in the OSD settings. What type of GPU are you running?

I got it to work now, but i only run 15-20 fps so i guess i´m gonna wait for a patch (if is ever going to come one)....

I take it you are an AMD user as well.... I probably should have left my GTX690 in... The machine I am using at the moment only has one slot, other wise I'd be running both the 690 and the 295x2 and play certain games using certain cards..

yes I am an AMD user, I am running an APU sadly, I'm going to get an msi r9 270x soon but i'm still debating.

Logan Last Don't forget ebay - the GTX690 i paid 1000$US for now resells at sub 500$US its great value especially if you are limited on slot space and/or power headroom - you can get it to work with a 500W power supply if you must, and it still scores a 9000+ on 3d mark firestrike with a i7 3770k at stock speeds (see other video) and its graphics score is in the 12000s+ range. This is not bad when you consider that the GTX680 came out as a 500$US card and is half the performance of the 690. Just a thought!

Keroro Taichou Yah but sadly those cards are out of my price range I'm trying to get the most out of 200 bucks

Keroro Taichou So the MSI r9 270x is where Im looking at for price per performance

Hi Everybody!