mfenn
Elite Member
I ran Crysis and Crysis 3 on both my rig and my nephew's rig. I have severe tearing on my screen and slow downs both games. I can't get full screen to work on my end as well. I have a 27" AOC IPS LED Monitor. On my nephew's rig he gets about 24-30fps but its very smooth, no tearing, no lag or stuttering. I get about the same fps as him,but mine is extremely choppy, slow and not playable at all. I did this on both single and xfire setup. I have a much more expensive setup than him which is very sad lol!
The symptoms you're seeing sound a lot like severe framerate inconsistency. Tearing comes from a framerate that's high, and obviously slowdowns are framerates that are too slow. Both your CPU and GPU setups contribute to this, so it's hard to say which is causing more of an issue without testing them separately.
EDIT: Is there a right way to hook up the HDMI cable to a xfire gpu? Do I put it on the top or second card?
Whichever card the display is hooked to becomes the primary card, so you should plug it into whichever card is in the x16 slot.