Call of Duty 4 Performace. A little something for you to try.

[DarKStar]

Could it be that somehow it's taking advantage of the HyperThreading on your CPU ?
I've never really compared, as I have a dual core processor and always leave that option on since I play recent games.

Did you try this with other games - Bioshock for example.

[sjps220]

I didn't see much of a difference. I ran my timedemo at 1920X1200.

NO
Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
4548, 62292, 31, 129, 73.011
YES
Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
4568, 62332, 32, 130, 73.285

[frosty]

i must be retarted for I cant get the time demo to run....

I follwed the instructions and its telling me it cant find the demo...

[frosty]

well figured I just try the fraps program and use there time benchmark feature..

2008-07-27 07:36:13 - iw3mp
Frames: 11214 - Time: 62789ms - Avg: 178.598 - Min: 26 - Max: 508 (AA off - dual video on)

2008-07-27 07:39:59 - iw3mp
Frames: 6993 - Time: 52176ms - Avg: 134.027 - Min: 27 - Max: 348 (AA on 4x -Dual video on

2008-07-27 07:44:00 - iw3mp
Frames: 4891 - Time: 40955ms - Avg: 119.424 - Min: 24 - Max: 148 (AA 4x -dual cards off)

[sswilson]

If I were a conspiracy nut, I'd guess that ATI did something (like a hidden drop in eye candy settings) in the background to boost crossfire performance, but I turned in my X-Files member card years ago so I don't think like that any more............

[SKYMTL]

Originally Posted by frosty

2008-07-27 07:39:59 - iw3mp
Frames: 6993 - Time: 52176ms - Avg: 134.027 - Min: 27 - Max: 348 (AA on 4x -Dual video on

2008-07-27 07:44:00 - iw3mp
Frames: 4891 - Time: 40955ms - Avg: 119.424 - Min: 24 - Max: 148 (AA 4x -dual cards off)

There we GO!! Was this with a single card?

We need more people to try this with single card solutions.

I have a little theory that I want you guys to listen to.

Remember when sites like Anandtech posted their Crossfire HD4800-series reviews and everyone was calling BS when the CoD4 scores more than doubled when going over to Crossfire? Well, this could be the reason considering you can boost the performance of a single card when enabling the Dual GPU option.....

Thoughts?

[frosty]

Originally Posted by SKYMTL

There we GO!! Was this with a single card?

We need more people to try this with single card solutions.

I have a little theory that I want you guys to listen to.

Remember when sites like Anandtech posted their Crossfire HD4800-series reviews and everyone was calling BS when the CoD4 scores more than doubled when going over to Crossfire? Well, this could be the reason considering you can boost the performance of a single card when enabling the Dual GPU option.....

Thoughts?

when you guys are referring to single and dual, i assumed you meant going into the game menu settings and shutting off the Dual vid card option in the graphics menu. Was i right in thinking this, or should I have gone into my system and shut off SLI than ran the test? If i did it wrong I can do it again, just let me know... the system has 2 cards installed.

the specs above are as follows...

reading one was with Dual Cards enabled in the game menu

reading 2 was with dual cards shut off in the game menu

[cadaveca]

It's the AMT of data sent when running singlecards....doesn't fully load the gpu. You can check this using DX tools, or various other apps. This is part of what allows COD4 to scale so well on a variety of hardware...single-card threads get less data, and the gpu goes "IDLE".

Part of it is ATI's dispatch processor, but you'll find ALL CARDS SHOW THIS BEHAVIOR, to some extent, axs long as they are not running settings they just cannot handle.

This is just one of quite a few examples out there of good coding in a game engine...


Data could also be sent in SMALLER packets when in dual-gpu mode, allowing for faster transfers...

[Keir]

I was able to get almost double the frame rate running my 1950pro's in crossfire in COD4 I'm failing to see where the amazement is?

Its been quite documented on Infinity Wards Forums that for some people just selecting dual video card option does increase FPS for whatever reason. It does seem to work on ATI cards and not on Nvidia cards for the most part. This isn't some fantastical thing with your video card its a bug in the game. Whatever optimization is increasing the framerate should be applied to the ' Single Card ' option yet for ATI users its not enabled unless you have it set to 'Dual Card'. You also dont need to be running a time demo to show this, just enable the FPS counter in the game ( open console type fps I think its cg_showfps 1 ). Just open up the options menu and change the option it changes real time you can still see the FPS counter. Pick a spot with particularly low FPS.

Basically think of it as a TURBO option and you might as well leave it enabled until they fix it.. which is unlikely at this point as 4 patches later they havent fixed it.

[SKYMTL]

What I am saying is that using a SINGLE CARD while using the ENABLE DUAL GPU option will INCREASE YOUR FRAME RATES EVEN IF YOU ONLY HAVE ONE CARD INSTALLED.