[quote]and this leads to X2 card users not knowing that they are in CF and thinking they got twice the memory amount than is really available as a framebuffer ... :roll: (disinformation anyone ?)
No. It's people not using their brains for three seconds.
nVidia markets their dual-GPU cards as "1792MB" cards, not "896MBx2" so they're just as much to blame as ATi.
I don't like the fact that the ATi CCC won't let me disable CrossFire on my 4870X2, but equally I've not played any games where I experience issues with CrossFire (or at least issues serious enough that I feel the need to disable it...)
Not knowing is not a crime AFAIK ;)
yes nvidia & ATI market their cards with twice the available framebuffer since physically it's true.
though Nvidia shows that an X2 is just SLI
whereas ATI hides that an X2 is just CF, there's people out there who won't believe that their X2 is CF ...
"they bought one card, CF is multi-card" ... this is their logic, and not all X2 owners are technically knowledgeable... and sorry but I don't blame people for not being IT professionals... :D
ATI brought CF to the masses, that's the problem
the fact that YOU didn't have any CF problem is
your experience, and as such means nothing on a global scale except for the fact that a majority of people like you won't have any problem with CF.But this doesn't alter the fact that people out there have problems with CF sometimes(like rushing to buy some games, and the driver isn't updated for CF for that game yet. or even alternative games)