AMD ATI Radeon HD 5500 Series, User Manual

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Enabling ATI CrossFireX
When ATI CrossFireX support is enabled, the best possible GPU combination is
selected based on the current hardware configuration. If necessary, you can
change the existing ATI CrossFireX configuration using the following procedure.
ATI Radeon™ dual-GPU graphics cards are designed based on ATI CrossFireX
technology. As a result, ATI CrossFireX support is always enabled for such cards.
1. Based on the navigation system contained in the
ATI Catalyst Control Center window, do one of the following:
➭
Navigation menu—On the Graphics menu, click CrossFireX™ .
➭
Navigation tree—From the tree in the Graphics Settings tab, click
CrossFireX™ .
2. Click Configure .
3. From the Graphics Adapter list, select the graphics card to act as the display
GPU.
4. Select Enable CrossFireX™ .
Note: The Choose from the following Rendered GPU combinations drop-
down list automatically populates with all available render GPUs based on
the selected display GPU. The list displays only GPUs that can be enabled
for ATI CrossFireX. Other combinations are not listed here but may be listed
on the CrossFire™
▷
Diagnostics page.
5. From the list, select the appropriate combination.
Note: If the selected combination is not the most optimal choice for your
system, a message appears at the bottom of the page notifying you of this.
6. Click Apply .
In some configurations, when ATI CrossFireX is enabled, GPU Accelerated
Physics is automatically disabled for all cards in the configuration as are all
displays except the one used by ATI CrossFireX.
14 ATI CrossFireX Technology
ATI Radeon™ HD 5600 Series
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