Hardware & Technical Eyefinity died tonight...

CMDR Charybdis

CMDR Charybdis
Sandmann said:
Ahhh you meant graphics adapter didn't you? Wrong sort of adapter... I'm talking about one of these:

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The DVI to HDMI converter (or the other way round) is a straight signal passthrough and and is unlikely to have or need any firmware. The DVI connector is a repackaged HDMI, which makes it cheap to make the processing chips for it as they already exist for HDMI :) DVI-VGA conversions would need some software though ;)
 

MoodyB

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Sandmann said:
At least that saves me the trouble of finding a central landscape monitor that matches my smaller two portrait ones. :)
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You could always run ED in windowed mode I think with a PLP config.

You just wouldn't have any bezel correction, as you'd just be using the standard windows extended desktop for display rather than Eyefinity.


Ravenov said:
Pretty sure eyefinity does support PLP, I know nvidia surround does not, however.
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As of Catalyst 14.6 Eyefinity supports mixed resolutions, but not mixed orientations :

"However we would note that users hoping that mixed resolution Eyefinity will bring Portrait-Landscape-Portrait (PLP) support are going to be out of luck. AMD’s rotation abilities are still based on the virtual desktop instead of the monitor, so there doesn’t appear to be a way to make PLP work since not all monitors need rotation."

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8058/...ailable-adds-new-eyefinity-functionality-more
 

Ravenov

Ravenov
MoodyB said:
You could always run ED in windowed mode I think with a PLP config.

You just wouldn't have any bezel correction, as you'd just be using the standard windows extended desktop for display rather than Eyefinity.




As of Catalyst 14.6 Eyefinity supports mixed resolutions, but not mixed orientations :

"However we would note that users hoping that mixed resolution Eyefinity will bring Portrait-Landscape-Portrait (PLP) support are going to be out of luck. AMD’s rotation abilities are still based on the virtual desktop instead of the monitor, so there doesn’t appear to be a way to make PLP work since not all monitors need rotation."

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8058/...ailable-adds-new-eyefinity-functionality-more
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Ahh, fair enough. I've seen it done, maybe it was the first method you described.
 

Sandmann

Sandmann
So my new adapter turned up from ebay yesterday. All excited I rush home to plug it in and try it out. It showed the bios screen but after it booted, nothing. Monitor turned on, computer detected monitor, but no display - just black. Very odd. Tried settings in both the windows resolution settings and the ati catalyst ones, no joy. Eventually I thought to try a lower resolution (my monitors are 1920x1080 native). Lo and behold it came to life at 1440x900! When I set up Eyefinity I had to do some weird 3xxx*1080 resolution for it to work, very chunky (great frame rate though!). So I've returned that to the ebay vendor, found a local retailer, and bought a brand name one which comes with a separate USB connector for power and works just fine.

Nice to be back in the land of peripheral vision again... though I've had to set my gfx options back to low to get decent frame rates... it's been that way since beta two. Anyone else finding the same thing?
 

GHDW

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Sandmann said:
Nice to be back in the land of peripheral vision again... though I've had to set my gfx options back to low to get decent frame rates... it's been that way since beta two. Anyone else finding the same thing?
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Cheers on getting it to work again. With 5040x1050 (7950x2) I'm seeing dips into the low 20's and topping 33 while sitting in the lower dock and gfx options set to high. In space FPS tops out at 55 with low 30's when near stations or asteroid field.

I noticed the dips in FPS just before a contact is made and wonder if network traffic has an effect on overall frame rate, or it's just coincidental.
 

Sandmann

Sandmann
Yah that pretty much lines up with what I'm finding. Mine's 3x1920x1080 on a single R9-280X. On high gfx I get 20fps in the hangar, about 30 in the.docking bay and 35-45 in open space. Dropping it to low graphics pushes it up to 40/50/60.

Back in standard beta 1 I was getting the 40/50/60 fps results on high graphics settings, so they've done something that's chewing up the gpu for no real discernable improvement.. Hope they undo whatever it is.


Just wish I could justify a second gfx card and a new motherboard to support SLI... But I can't
 
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