AMD Releases 11.10 Drivers With Official 5x1 Support
Finally put all those spare monitors to good use... sideways.
AMD today released the final version of its Catalyst/Vision 11.10 drivers. Gamers who have been playing Battlefield 3 or Rage with Radeon HD graphics cards may be running a preview driver variant of 11.10, but if you have preview 2 or earlier, you'll want to update to the final version.
Besides being essential for running Battlefield 3 and Rage at their best, the new 11.10 software finally brings in official support for the Eyefinity 5x1 configuration. What's so great about this? A handful of screens, but no bezel right in the middle. Check out some of the videos below:
Other changes include:
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 software suite for Windows 7. These include:
- Some OpenGL games like Enemy Territory Quake Wars no longer experiences random corruption.
- Lost Planet 2 no longer experiences random crashes when running the benchmark.
- F1 2010 and Dirt 2 no longer experience random flashing during the game.
- Google Earth no longer displays random corruption when running in OpenGL mode.
- Mafia II no longer experiences a random crash during game loading / game play when Crossfire is enabled.
- Unigine Heaven running in DirectX 11 mode no longer experiences a performance drop when running with Dual Graphics enabled.
- Homefront no longer experiences random game crashes.
- Random flashing is no longer experienced when playing back SD/BD content on a 120Hz monitor.
- An application crash is no longer randomly observed while playing M2V/Mpeg2/Mpeg4 files and toggling the Hardware Acceleration setting.
- Display corruption is no longer experienced on the primary display when running in extended display mode with AERO enabled.
Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 software suite for Windows Vista. These include:
- Display corruption is no longer experienced on the primary display when running in extended display mode with AERO enabled.
- Scaling options are now correctly displayed when connecting DisplayPort / DFP monitors.
- An application crash is no longer randomly observed while playing M2V/Mpeg2/Mpeg4 files and toggling the Hardware Acceleration setting.
Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System
This section provides information on resolved known issues in this release of the AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 software suite for Windows XP. These include:
- An application crash is no longer randomly observed while playing M2V/Mpeg2/Mpeg4 files and toggling the Hardware Acceleration setting.
- Display corruption is no longer experienced on the primary display when running in extended display mode with AERO enabled.
Check out the release notes for the full details.
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And Rage still doesn't work right.
Nice to add the option. But that's a hell of allot of bezels...
lags lol
Who cares, the two people in the world that use that are happy i'm sure.
Call me when they fix Crossfire and 3D and enable Portrait/Landscape/Portrait for 3 screen eyefinity. Two feature A LOT more people use and yet are completely ignored by AMD.
Seeing if this will fix BF3 eyefinity issues... Here goes nothing
AERO on XP? How to?...
Which card has 5 outputs??
Which card has 5 outputs??
The Radeon 6990 does; 4 of them are Displayport though.
Which card has 5 outputs??
Several actually support 6 monitors...
that guy isn't very good a Dirt hahahahahaha
Great for gaming for sure! However, I'll also be coding on any machine I build so the vertical display is less useful for that.
Should have put in fine print not all AMD cards can do 5 screens. My HD5850 can only max out at 3 and most HD6000 series can max out at 4.
You need that E6 edition, HD6990 to get 5 screens on a single card.
There was a card that can do 5 screens although it wasn't official.
Here it is
http://www.powercolor.com/us/produ [...] asp?id=240
Most of the "Resolved Issues for the Windows 7" came a bit late, don't you think? and the newer titles are seemingly nowhere to be found... I wish they have just release it without much of... marketing or advertisement...
that's a whole lot of problems they have to fix and from what I heard or have seen thus far, they still haven't got it right yet..
Deus Ex Human Revolution Eyelagfinity 5x1
darn those 5 monitors look great - from over here.
fix your damn drivers amd!
Should have put in fine print not all AMD cards can do 5 screens. My HD5850 can only max out at 3 and most HD6000 series can max out at 4.You need that E6 edition, HD6990 to get 5 screens on a single card.There was a card that can do 5 screens although it wasn't official.Here it ishttp://www.powercolor.com/us/produ [...] asp?id=240
Actually with display port 1.2 on the newer HD6k cards, u can do close to 6 screens with just one card, with display port splitters of course.
Here's the article about it
That's the stuff : )
Other than gaming there is not much else you can do with such intuitive yet sexy setup. Could you span a movie across all 5 screens?
Other than gaming there is not much else you can do with such intuitive yet sexy setup. Could you span a movie across all 5 screens?
Yes, but the current resolution of movies will make the displayed image look like crap as you're talking about 5760*2160 for 6 screen eyefinity, yet movies are only 1080p max.
and No, it's not just for gaming, people do use Multi-screen for actual productive work.
I just use it to watch 2 porn at once
Really waiting for the ultra thin bezel monitors to come out.
People is still complaining about Rage and low performance. I play Rage with preview 3 Ati drivers and i had no issues at all. Great graphics and 60+ fps (HD 5850, res. 1920x1080).
the release notes dont mention rage or BF3
I get a BSOD on any attempt to install the real drivers - while the "preview" drivers work just fine. Go figure.
correct, the release notes don't mention BF3. It only added Crossfire profile for Battlefield 3. I don't see that benefiting me since i have single card.
dude, issues... had 11.9 with CAP 3 with no issues during installation and gameplay. installed 11.10 with CAP 4 no issues with installation, but mad stuttering issues with CF'd 6950. going to reinstall 11.9/cap3
5 projectors on a big white wall, it would be like playing a game in the front row of a cinema screen.
Fingers crossed that it will fix the tearing I have gotten when trying to update to 10.8 and 10.9 from 10.7.
been running bf3 in eyefinity @ 6036x1080 w/ no probs on 11.9 driver. Going to update to 11.10, but it may be another issue some are experiencing?
Actually with display port 1.2 on the newer HD6k cards, u can do close to 6 screens with just one card, with display port splitters of course.
Here's the article about it
If DP 1.2 can do 6 screens at once from the miniDP ports with the help of a DP splitter, then what is the point of having this driver?!
This driver states you can do Eyefinity with 5 screens and the way I see it means you can run up to 5 screens on a single card without the aid of additional devices. HD5000 series can only go 3 screens in Eyefinity while HD6000 series can only do 4.
Too bad THG did show you guys the for setup for that 5x1 with the latest CCC 11.10
[IMG]http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/280/radeonhd6990eyefinity5x.jpg[/IMG]
Yep, that "OMG I can run five screens now, that is so uber awesome" demo is using a HD6990 as it can support 5 direct screens at once!
4x mini DP and 1x DVI= 5 screens in Eyefinity with no DP splitters!
See if any of you can do that to your HD6850/6870/6950/6970, bet none of you can't which makes my post (got rated down) still stands.
source
Anyone who want to do 5x1 (without DP splitters) may need to wait for the HD7000 series without breaking their wallets.
Actually the bezel feature is probably a lot more used in the real world than crossfire. You're forgetting all the workstations at different businesses which run multiple monitors for productivity. I can tell you we have hundreds such workstations on site at my workplace, and the company doesn't care jack about how good 3d gaming is on those computers.
That being said I'm not arguing against your gripes with the crossfire support. Most people who post here are enthusiasts and gamers, and sadly ATI/AMD have always seemed a bit slow with their drivers to appease us. Personally I only buy nVidia due to much better experience with drivers. Right now only one of my computers at home runs an AMD card and I don't use it for gaming.