ATI CrossFire Xtension v.1.0 Released, Forces CrossFire Support

malware · Feb 20, 2009

Coming out of nowhere, ATI CrossFire Xtension may become your favourite application after the next sentence. Just released with the pilot version 1.0, ATI CrossFire Xtension is a cool utility that allows you to create custom profiles and force CrossFire support on non-supported or new games and applications, both for Direct3D and OpenGL. Better see for yourself if the app works. Here's the download link.

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TRIPTEX_CAN · Feb 20, 2009

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET :rockout:

Only several years after Nvidia, but hey! Better late than never.

truehighroller1 · Feb 20, 2009

I knew this was coming after seeing that evga thing the other day. This is pretty sweet. Tell us how it works people that have access to try it right now. I am at work, can't try it right now.

mlee49 · Feb 20, 2009

Dude I want to test this ASAP!!!! Someone get some feed back going!!!

I want to see if this works on x2 cards now.

MilkyWay · Feb 20, 2009

so if i have an old game like call of duty 1 i can theoretically force crossfire support?
sounds interesting but i dont have crossfire lolz :laugh:

groothof22 · Feb 20, 2009

i have now corssfire today lol

Sweeet i love it today i have a second 4870 i am happy gne gne :laugh:

Silverel · Feb 20, 2009

Damn... 8 more hours at least before I get to play with this :shadedshu

TRIPTEX_CAN · Feb 20, 2009

I'll test it in about 5h. I'll post up what I find if no one else has.

Silverel · Feb 20, 2009

Mebbe it'll force xfire to work better in Warhammer... I only notice ~5 fps increase with my 4830's

Haytch · Feb 20, 2009

Splendid.

Dr. Spankenstein · Feb 20, 2009

Someone open this up. Could it be no more than a GUI to rename the .exe to a program that already has a Xfire profile? (ie. take Prey.exe and rename AFR-FRIENDLYD3D.EXE)

*grumble*
Lazy kids....
/*grumble*

Silverel · Feb 20, 2009

dood. I could totally write an AutoIt script to do that and make a snazzy UI for it...

Q: Can I get paid for that?

Dr. Spankenstein · Feb 20, 2009

If you have a website that gets paid for hits, then "yeah"....

TheMailMan78 · Feb 20, 2009

Anyone try this yet? If it works I'm so going to BENCH QUAKE 3 with duel 4850s :laugh:

Binge · Feb 20, 2009

Amazing. This is a great step forward for ATi

js01 · Feb 20, 2009

This tool has nothing to do with the devs at ati, it was first posted over at xtremesystems.org, for d3d it renames the.exe to crysis.exe and for opengl it renames the .exe to etqw.exe.

PCpraiser100 · Feb 21, 2009

Finally! Change is in the air for ATI!

Now I can jack up my framerates in tri perhaps if I buy two more HD 3870s. Feeling lucky, Crysis?

kenkickr · Feb 21, 2009

This morning I tried it and it would not work. Everytime I tried to run it I get an error about side-by-side.

W1zzard · Feb 21, 2009

well .. all it does is rename your game exe to etqw.exe (opengl) and crysis.exe (direct3d). nothing you cant do yourself without any tools

kenkickr · Feb 21, 2009

I just thought I'd be lazy and try it. Oh well.

mlee49 · Feb 21, 2009

Just tried it on Furmark and exactly no difference. Will try other apps/exe's to see if any improvement.

AgentGOD · Feb 21, 2009

kenkickr said:
This morning I tried it and it would not work. Everytime I tried to run it I get an error about side-by-side.

That means you are lacking .NET Framework 2.0.

W1zzard said:
well .. all it does is rename your game exe to etqw.exe (opengl) and crysis.exe (direct3d). nothing you cant do yourself without any tools

Not in the latest version. It gives the user the choice of which pre-defined profile to use. Also, this saves the hassle of the user creating a bunch of shortcuts and renaming everything. I wrote this program to simplify the process, and give users a way to organize the unsupported games, all in a single application. With that aside, it does do what it was "advertised" to do.

W1zzard · Feb 21, 2009

mlee49 said:
Just tried it on Furmark and exactly no difference. Will try other apps/exe's to see if any improvement.

furmark's exe is already renamed to etqw so it should support cf out of the box without any other tools

ShadowFold · Feb 21, 2009

Sweet I just got my crossfire setup going.. I wonder if this will improve games that already have profiles?

Hayder_Master · Feb 22, 2009

anyone try GTA , maybe we see some different's there

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