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I and many others have experienced this issue of needing to select the extended profile twice for it to set correctly, for me it has come and gone, although I have not experienced this for a long time.
I am currently using 11.6 at the momment.
I think 1 solution is to use driver sweeper, in windows safe mode to remove all the ATI drivers, then boot back into normal windows and reinstall the driver and reset the profiles again.
If you dont want to do that, then you could use a .bat file to run the extended profile twice, so you select it once form a shortcut and it will correct for you, more a workaround than a fix of cause.
If you want to use the batch file route then use ths code in a .bat file...
Code:
@ECHO OFF
ECHO Restoring profiles, please wait . . .
"C:Program Files (x86)ATI TechnologiesATI.ACECore-StaticCLI.exe" Start Load profilename="extend"
ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 6000 > NULL
"C:Program Files (x86)ATI TechnologiesATI.ACECore-StaticCLI.exe" Start Load profilename="extend"
Replace "extend" for your extended monitor profile name.
You can also go a step further and make a .bat file for each game, and replace the icons on your desktop for a number of .bat files.
What this would do is that when you wish to play the game, it will switch to the eyefinity/span profile, load the game, then when you finsh playing the game, it will automaticly switch back to the extended profile.
This gives a similar experience to SoftTh, but with slightly better performance and less of a need to configure SoftTh for each game.
An an example of this would be...
Code:
@ECHO OFF
ECHO Switching profiles and loading game, please wait . . .
"C:Program Files (x86)ATI TechnologiesATI.ACECore-StaticCLI.exe" Start Load profilename="span"
"U:gamesSteamSteamAppscommonleft 4 dead 2left4dead2.exe"
ECHO Restoring profiles, please wait . . .
"C:Program Files (x86)ATI TechnologiesATI.ACECore-StaticCLI.exe" Start Load profilename="extend"
ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 6000 > NULL
"C:Program Files (x86)ATI TechnologiesATI.ACECore-StaticCLI.exe" Start Load profilename="extend"