It has finally come to my attention that a handful of game development companies don"™t subscribe to the idea of customer service, but rather they believe that once they have sold a game, they can be completely hands off.
As some of you already know, I recently built a new gaming PC with dual ATI x1900XT"™s that can be Crossfire"™d. I have yet to find a game that actually works well with Crossfire enabled. A list of games that I have tried include:
- Heroes of Annihilated Empires (will not launch)
- Gothic 3 (launches, graphics are extremely broken, unplayable)
- Flight Simulator X (launches, no noticed graphics improvement)
- Might and Magic: Dark Messiah (will not launch)
- and many more"¦
I have tried repeatedly to get assistance from GSC Game World to fix the issues with Heroes of Annihilated Empires. GSC asked me to supply a number of diagnostic files and then replied stating "Sorry but this technology doesn't supported in game, even not tested. But i think devs must correct this."? Even though it is broken English, I take this to mean that Crossfire is not supported, but that it was supposed to be supported.
When I contacted Aspyr about Gothic 3, they did a cut and paste response about uninstalling this, delete temp files, disabling that. Then they closed the ticket without giving me a chance to mention if it had solved the problem.
A number of games that I have been playing also don"™t support multiple monitors. What do I mean by this? No I don"™t mean that I can"™t play them on multiple monitors. I am complaining that they don"™t lock the mouse to the monitor that is currently being used for gaming. So when you move your mouse to the edge of the game, normal where you place the mouse to move the screen around, instead the mouse leaves the monitor and travels on to your second screen, and never moves the game screen.
Games that don"™t lock the mouse to the gaming monitor:
- Command and Conquer: Generals (1-02-07)
There are more, I will be adding to this list.
If you have gotten one of the games I listed to run with Crossfire, please place a comment on here. I am tired of having spent a ton of money on a Crossfire motherboard and 2 expensive cards, to have them be useful for nothing.
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Rage3D has a good article titled Rage3D The Definitive Multi-GPU World Tour - Part 8, Uncommon Benchmarks that helps show the major differences between nVidia's SLI and ATI's Crossfire.
Crossfire is the obviously loser.
