Guild Wars 2

I had xfire running, and every time I tried to start GW2, the game would crash. This is rather weird.

Is there something that gw2 doesn’t like about xfire?

Yes this game does not like overlays, you can go into your xfire settings => games => gw2 => disable xfire in-game

That fixed all those crashes related to xfire for me.

I run Crossfire just fine with 2×6970s. However, GW2 does not benefit that much from running in Crossfire.

First, give us some detailed hardware specs on your system to help us troubleshoot your issue.. CPU (Speed, Overclock), Motherboard, Memory (Brand, Speed, Timings), PSU (Make, Model), Video Hardware (Make, Model, Speed), Catalyst Driver Version.

For starters, here are some things to do.

If you have any overclocks (CPU, Memory, Video Cards), return them to stock settings for testing purposes.

Download and install the latest Catalyst Drivers v13.1 from AMD and install. Reboot and then make sure that Crossfire is enabled in the Catalyst Control Center.

Make sure nothing is running on your system at Startup. Run msconfig from the command line and disable everything from loading at startup. Later, you can go back and re-enable these things.

Install Heaven Benchmark (First hit on Google) and run for an hour or so. This should push both video cards to near 100% GPU usage and max pull on your power supply. If experience no issues during Heaven, then the problem is most likely not with your video cards or power supply. If you do have problems, then the opposite is true.

Chobits.2430:

I run Crossfire just fine with 2×6970s. However, GW2 does not benefit that much from running in Crossfire.

First, give us some detailed hardware specs on your system to help us troubleshoot your issue.. CPU (Speed, Overclock), Motherboard, Memory (Brand, Speed, Timings), PSU (Make, Model), Video Hardware (Make, Model, Speed), Catalyst Driver Version.

For starters, here are some things to do.

If you have any overclocks (CPU, Memory, Video Cards), return them to stock settings for testing purposes.

Download and install the latest Catalyst Drivers v13.1 from AMD and install. Reboot and then make sure that Crossfire is enabled in the Catalyst Control Center.

Make sure nothing is running on your system at Startup. Run msconfig from the command line and disable everything from loading at startup. Later, you can go back and re-enable these things.

Install Heaven Benchmark (First hit on Google) and run for an hour or so. This should push both video cards to near 100% GPU usage and max pull on your power supply. If experience no issues during Heaven, then the problem is most likely not with your video cards or power supply. If you do have problems, then the opposite is true.

There is xfire the in-game overlay program, and there is xfire as an abbreviation of "Crossfire’, or the multi-GPU setup

Xfire the program (at least in the past) used a real poorly coded hooking interface. Not sure how it is now, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s still as bad.

I use an alternate program called Evolve that overlays just fine into GW2. May be worth looking into if your into stuff like gametime tracking, or basically everything that Xfire offers + more.

Raptr worked fine for this game last i checked and is by some of the ex-xfire guys who went off on their own project.

unlike xfire I never had raptr caused a game to crash….had it not hook at all but never had it keep a game from working….