R9 270x in crossfire ?

[Loaded_Dice]

Hi Everyone,

 

I'm currently running a single Sapphire R9 270x 2GB and getting quite decent framerates almost everything maxed out. Just came across a good offer for another second hand Sapphire R9 270x (100eur) so I'm seriously considering to purchase it in light of the forthcoming DCS 2.0 release. While in other games the R9 270x combination in crossfire offers an unbeatable price/performance ratio as far as I'm informed the current engine of DCS does not support cards in crossfire :-(. I would really appreciate an advice ( or even better an insider tip from beta testers of DCS 2.0 :-)) whether this upgrade will be worthwhile.

 

Thanks in advance,

Ilija

[cichlidfan]

The testers would be bound by NDA not to answer the question and anyone else would be guessing.

 

We all would like to know what to expect but...

[Lucky]

It's been said DCS 2.0 will make better use of multiple GPU's.

Edited December 22, 2014 by Lucky
Corrected info.

[Loaded_Dice]

It's been said DCS 2.0 will make better use of multiple GPU's.

It would be my guess also. Just by upgrading to DirectX11 should probably resolve the crossfire issue.

 

Another question is multithreading\parallelism since the sim now runs on only 1 core for the graphics and 1 for the sound. This really limits the potential of modern multicore systems. So far I have not made the decision to buy a new pc since upgrading will not bring huge single core performance increase and DCS is the only game I play :-)

 

On the other side it must be admitted hands down that single core performance is really good for such a complex application.

[Lucky]

CPU multi-threading is not being pursued, according to the DCS World 2 discussion thread.

Edited December 23, 2014 by Lucky
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