Guild Wars 2

does sli work better then crossfire on this game

Depends on who you ask.

Here they will tell you no, it doesn’t improve fps at all as GW2 is CPU bound not GPU bound.

Other fourms I hang out at say it will absolutely improve frame rate. Being CPU bound has nothing to do with it. Game engines do not have nor need specific code for sli to improve frame rate.

So my take on it is: YES, it will improve your frame rate as long as your CPU doesn’t bottle neck your x2 GPU. So overclock that CPU to 8GHz and you should be good to go……..(sarcasm)

NeedCoffee.1402:

Depends on who you ask.

Here they will tell you no, it doesn’t improve fps at all as GW2 is CPU bound not GPU bound.

Other fourms I hang out at say it will absolutely improve frame rate. Being CPU bound has nothing to do with it. Game engines do not have nor need specific code for sli to improve frame rate.

So my take on it is: YES, it will improve your frame rate as long as your CPU doesn’t bottle neck your x2 GPU. So overclock that CPU to 8GHz and you should be good to go……..(sarcasm)

It’s true though. Once you reach the Bottleneck that your CPU is (Even i7-Extreme’s BottleNeck for GW2) no amount of GPU will compensate for that.

Now, SLI should be considered in terms of A+B > C GPU options.
OR A+B > All other available options (When running things like 3d).

I would not do SLI or CrossFire for GW2 only, I would do it for either other games or a gimic like 3d gaming.

Or if I was running say, a HD7770 and it was cheaper and more effective to CrossFire 2x HD7770’s Instead of buying the next Tier GPU. <— This is really where SLI/CrossFire Shines IMHO. Being able to link GPUs to keep up with the forever Growing Market.

when i ran crossfire i got a lot of problems like the thing that would move would be all stretch out i was use two radeon hd 6770 (also using amd fx 8320 and i am not changing it) and now i am using a gts 250 and i am getting better fps then the radeon card

Don.6510:

when i ran crossfire i got a lot of problems like the thing that would move would be all stretch out i was use two radeon hd 6770 (also using amd fx 8320 and i am not changing it) and now i am using a gts 250 and i am getting better fps then the radeon card

sounds like a config issue. That could occur if you were in eyefinity mode.

i never used crossfire in eyefinity