Hi guys, AMD has released a fix for Crossfire flickering: http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx

Cheers!

Thank you, but it is not the real solution of this problem, the performance drops significantly. I do not want to tell you how to do your job ,Crytek, but you better make a normal fix by yourself, you must not shift your work to Nvidia or ATI.

Hi guys, AMD has released a fix for Crossfire flickering: http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx

Cheers!

Thank you, but it is not the real solution of this problem, the performance drops significantly. I do not want to tell you how to do your job ,Crytek, but you better make a normal fix by yourself, you must not shift your work to Nvidia or ATI.

Hi guys, AMD has released a fix for Crossfire flickering: http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx

Cheers!

It doesn't work anyway (at least with 2x 6870)

It doesn't work anyway (at least with 2x 6870)

You are not right, it works on my radeon 4870x2 and I suppose it should work on better card. Just try to reboot your system.

It's nothing wrong with the drivers. They work for every game out there except Crysis 2. The game needs fixing.

It's nothing wrong with the drivers. They work for every game out there except Crysis 2. The game needs fixing.

Everyone are saying the same thing, but it seems that Ctytek just do not understand this, or they do not want to do anything, or they do not care about us.
What a pity.

ALSO, the 11.3 CAP1 "Crysis 2 Fix" Does NOT work!

FIX YOUR GAME CRYTEK!!!

I got the steam version, can't rename the executable.

I was getting same problem with my 4870x2 card, with crossfire enabled and latest ATI drivers. I ran multiple test without any good result until I downloaded "Radeon Pro" at http://www.radeonpro.info

I made a new profile with my crisis 2 game, I've check in advanced Catalyst AI and set it to "normal". After it's done, go into Tweaks tab and force que CrossFireX Profile to Bioshock. Apply your settings by right clicking though your Crysis 2 profile. You can set some other tweaks by auto-disabling Aero and always forcing v-sync off, it help a lot on FPS aswell.

Launch the game by right clicking on your profile. Enjoy your CrossFire enabled and fully functionnal.

I was running at 44 average fps with miminum "high" setting and now i'm able to play on extreme settings at average 75fps.

Just to add to what he said, heres a few tips to get the best framerate possible, with zero flicker and no screen tearing. These settings worked perfect for me on my Radeon HD 6990 with Catalyst 11.3 CAP1 profile, and I thought I'd share. Follow Crytukz's instructions(minus disabling Vsync), in addition to what I'm adding, and I promise you will get a perfect Crysis 2 experience. I'm running on Extreme settings, at 1080p and 60FPS with NO performance dips the entire game. Stays at a constant 60, 61, 60, 61..etc.

1)Enable Vsync in game. This will ensure the framerate is matched to your monitor, preventing screen tearing.
2)Make sure the brightness setting is 50% or below, or you might get flicker.
3)In the "tweaks" tab of Radeon Pro, under "Direct3D Tweaks", check "Triple Buffering". This is the MOST IMPORTANT tweak you can use to ensure a smooth framerate with no screen tearing. This made a dramatic difference in FPS after I applied it, while eliminating input lag often caused by Vsync.

I've spent hours trying to get this game to work properly, and finally have come across a solution. Its unforutnate that this game takes so much work to run properly, but hopefully this will help all of you that are frustrated by this mess. I'm not certain that this will work for everyone with crossfired AMD cards, but I can assure you guys it will work with the 6990. Hope this helps and good luck.

I got the steam version, can't rename the executable.

I was getting same problem with my 4870x2 card, with crossfire enabled and latest ATI drivers. I ran multiple test without any good result until I downloaded "Radeon Pro" at http://www.radeonpro.info

I made a new profile with my crisis 2 game, I've check in advanced Catalyst AI and set it to "normal". After it's done, go into Tweaks tab and force que CrossFireX Profile to Bioshock. Apply your settings by right clicking though your Crysis 2 profile. You can set some other tweaks by auto-disabling Aero and always forcing v-sync off, it help a lot on FPS aswell.

Launch the game by right clicking on your profile. Enjoy your CrossFire enabled and fully functionnal.

I was running at 44 average fps with miminum "high" setting and now i'm able to play on extreme settings at average 75fps.Thanks. this is so far the only usable fix that i know of. tho some flicker still exsist, this small program at least make the game playable.

Well ive tryed the radon pro but with running 4 GPUs (2x5970s) im still only getting 60fps whats going on? other games i have reach 300+ So i guess waiting for all the bugs to be ironed out .....sad

I have a single xfx HD5770 card. I have major artifacting and green flashes on rendered objects , buildings, and trees. Did everything nothing works. No, the card is not over heating. Never have any issues with any other game. Will post the video on youtube soon.

I got the steam version, can't rename the executable.

I was getting same problem with my 4870x2 card, with crossfire enabled and latest ATI drivers. I ran multiple test without any good result until I downloaded "Radeon Pro" at http://www.radeonpro.info

I made a new profile with my crisis 2 game, I've check in advanced Catalyst AI and set it to "normal". After it's done, go into Tweaks tab and force que CrossFireX Profile to Bioshock. Apply your settings by right clicking though your Crysis 2 profile. You can set some other tweaks by auto-disabling Aero and always forcing v-sync off, it help a lot on FPS aswell.

Launch the game by right clicking on your profile. Enjoy your CrossFire enabled and fully functionnal.

I was running at 44 average fps with miminum "high" setting and now i'm able to play on extreme settings at average 75fps.

Just to add to what he said, heres a few tips to get the best framerate possible, with zero flicker and no screen tearing. These settings worked perfect for me on my Radeon HD 6990 with Catalyst 11.3 CAP1 profile, and I thought I'd share. Follow Crytukz's instructions(minus disabling Vsync), in addition to what I'm adding, and I promise you will get a perfect Crysis 2 experience. I'm running on Extreme settings, at 1080p and 60FPS with NO performance dips the entire game. Stays at a constant 60, 61, 60, 61..etc.

1)Enable Vsync in game. This will ensure the framerate is matched to your monitor, preventing screen tearing.
2)Make sure the brightness setting is 50% or below, or you might get flicker.
3)In the "tweaks" tab of Radeon Pro, under "Direct3D Tweaks", check "Triple Buffering". This is the MOST IMPORTANT tweak you can use to ensure a smooth framerate with no screen tearing. This made a dramatic difference in FPS after I applied it, while eliminating input lag often caused by Vsync.

I've spent hours trying to get this game to work properly, and finally have come across a solution. Its unforutnate that this game takes so much work to run properly, but hopefully this will help all of you that are frustrated by this mess. I'm not certain that this will work for everyone with crossfired AMD cards, but I can assure you guys it will work with the 6990. Hope this helps and good luck.

Tried it with my 4870 CFX and it didn't do anything about the flicker. With one 4870 I can get 60fps at 720p with Extreme Graphics and no AA, AF, Motion Blur or SSAO. It's a pretty good balance all things considered but with Crossfire I can get 45-50+FPS at those same settings at 1080p but have to deal with the god damn flicker.

Trying 1080p with those settings on one 4870 is 28fps. Sadface.

I can't beleive I'm still waiting for a patch. I've had this game since release date and I am waiting for a patch before my fist "experience" of the game.
Same flicker issue crytek,
Intel Core i7 920
2000mhz Kingstan Hyper X
2x radeon 5870's
Gigabyte x58-ud3r.

Come on guys, bad enough the demo came out with press start, I'm a paying customer too ya know. We are all in the right to mouth off to you for a product that doesn't support anyones crossfire setup. It's not like it was missed during testing pre release.

that's amazing. thanks man. saved my problem. owe you one.

I'm the same. Everything I try, there is still flicker. It seemed to get better as I played through 5 hours on single player fine but now it doesn't matter what I do there is insane flickering. Tried the Steam fix this morning and it doesn't

My rig contains:

i7 920
6gig RAM
2 x 5870's

Performance hasn't been an issue at all, just warding off the sick feeling from looking at the screen and holding back a seizure while I close the game down

I have two 5870's as well and this did solve my flickering problem
http://www.gamesas.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=18342

Having painstakingly put up with the flickering for days then ploughed through every forum I could find when I couldn't take it anymore, here is my 2 pence. Spoilers: mine is all fixed and working fantastically

Like this guy says, CAP1 does work but seemingly only under certain conditions.

http://www.gamesas.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=18342

Use all his settings in advanced and tweaks, and use the bioshock profile, also make sure your brightness is sub-50 if you think you are experiencing a lesser flickering, mine was 75!

After all that, I am delighted to see fraps shoot to 75fps on extreme, no v sync, no flickering.

Good luck!

fix for crossfire
remove patch folder from game and start and voala it works

here is the fix
http://www.rage3d.com/cap/

This may be the answer to flickering issues. I am running 1x6990 and had really bad flickering.
With the Crysis 2 ver 1.2 auto updated. Open Crysis 2 root file, open backup folder copy Crysis2.exe.bak into a new folder on the desktop, and rename the copy Crysis2.exe. Open Bin32 folder (if you are using 64bit OS) and Replace Crysis2.exe file with the one you have just renamed from the new folder on your desktop. Seems it works perfectly for me now, no flickering. Hope it helps you all

guys here is antiflickering from AMD
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx

It works ish i'm sure i can still see a slight flicker sometimes and what about the wierd black lines running up and down the screen i get when i turn off vsync i want a nice high framerate. My system runs the game fine but i can tell in some areas of the game it slows to around 40 - 45 fps it runs mostly in the mid 50s to over 60 but i know vsync is slowing it down is this issue being investigated?

Guys try this [url="http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=342952"]driver[/url] ( just unnistall everything before you do, dont use driver sweep) and the use the latest CAP 11.3.

I was getting crappy FPS on Crysis 2 so i tried everything and that worked!

My steps were:
Install 11.4 preview driver plus latest CAP = ****.
I unnistalled the CAPs and then everything from CCC ( drivers CCC etc).
Reboot.
Install those drivers above, dont reboot, install the latest CAP. Reboot.
Start Crysis2 you should have great performance now, if you have flickering in nano vision just use radeon pro and set FEAR profile with AFR.

Enjoy!

This works for me, thnx!

fix for crossfire
remove patch folder from game and start and voala it works

need to add squadmates...need help.