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[quote][quote]Eh, still no 5x1 Portrait. It's pointless to me.

Here's 10.8 beta 5 if you want to give it a shot: :)
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=325871

This was posted elsewhere as 10.7 Beta5. ???

They are 10.8 beta 5. You might be thinking of the 10.7 beta with the OpenGL ES 2?:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=325848

TwL who mods Catalyst driver thinks the 10.8 beta 5 might come from the new FireGL drivers that are to come. Here's his modified driver btw:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=325848

Edit: and here's the official beta firegl drivers:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/fire/Pages/fire_beta_win7-64.aspx

:)

@johnnyvd:

Radeon PRO is a nice toy. Reminds me of nHancer. Work well with Stalker Clear Sky if to make it run much smoother with vsync and render ahead. :)

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATICat107aBetaDriver.aspx

I personally don't know the extent of the improvements, but the drivers above include some Eyefinity Crossfire (for >2 GPU's) improvements.

Nice! :D I hope some crossfinityx users could give feedback on these! :)

hunuok, tried them yet?

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATICat107aBetaDriver.aspx

I personally don't know the extent of the improvements, but the drivers above include some Eyefinity Crossfire (for >2 GPU's) improvements.

■Improved performance for Quad ATI CrossFireX™ for Eyefinity™ supported configurations

Cool.. Downloading now..

Installed 10.7a and... thank you very much ATI.. This is much better.

I am able to achieve DX9 fps with DIRT2 in DX11.
All below are with 5040x1200 Highest settings DX11 where available otherwise DX10

CAT 10.7
DIRT 2: 30% GPU utilization getting 40fps baseline
Red Faction Guerilla: 25% utilization 20FPS
Just Cause 2: 25% utilization 25fps

CAT10.7a
DIRT 2: 65% GPU utilization getting 60fps baseline
Red Faction Guerilla: 50% utilization 40FPS
Just Cause 2: 50% utilization 40fps

Seat of pants in DIRT2 feels better, runs smoother. But something else on my PC is holding back fps. must be something memory related -> lots of HD swapping(?)

So.. A good step in the right direction, could be better. Gonna test Metro2033 shortly

**EDIT** Metro2033 refuses to start, GTA4 runs choppy as hell..

Did you grab the options ATI Application Profles while updating drivers?

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=win7/windows-7-64bit

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Did you grab the options ATI Application Profles while updating drivers? http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=win7/windows-7-64bit

No. Did it and got the following:

CAT10.7a + 10.7 app profiles:
DIRT 2: 50% GPU utilization getting 40fps baseline
Red Faction Guerilla: 50% utilization 35FPS
Just Cause 2: 50% utilization 40fps

DIRT2 went down quite a bit, RFG a little, just cause no change.

Just did a fresh install of Win7 64bit this time (on a external HD).

Installed the 10.7a and wow, my mem problem/disc trashing/lagging has disappeared.

DIRT2 is going somewhere to the 69-70fps average with 70-80% GPU utilization. But it will (same as on 32bit) always hang the PC after running the internal benchmark.

RFG is blazing now.. sometimes 99% utilization on all four GPU's. Very playable with 60fps average.. sometimes dipping to 30fps when detonating like 20 remote charges at once..

Very Pristine OS at the moment so there are not that many games installed. But i'm very curious about Metro2033 and GTA4.
(and also curious what happens when i'm going to slap an extra 4G's of memory in the system.. 8) )

LOL! johnnyvd on a driver boost finally! :D

They reported the same on Guru3D with the new drivers. You should try out the V3.72 Eyefinity build, which is supposed to be good for Quadfinity users.

Hell, at this moment i will try ANY driver on whatever OS that ever existed to get my Quad setup going.
But with this recent boost i finally dropped my plan on getting GTX480's and staying on the RED side!

(and making 10.7a my favorite driver @ the moment :mrgreen: )

Still Got problems with DIRT2 -> crashes just like the ingame benchmark after some time. DIRT2 exe just makes an exception error and quits.. So not even a driver error or something and no forewarnings, gme runs just great!?

My hardware craze started with this game, i couldn't accept i could not run it with all eye-candy on and 4x AA in DX11 on 5040x1200 without some stutter..

Will try them V3.72 Eyefinity build..