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Nobody minds questions, and we like to answer them if / when we can. Heck, if there really is a number of questions that many users want to ask then I'd suggest putting a "non-Eyefinity" Q/A sticky up, just so long as people understand that a.) We won't be able to answer everything b.) some may not like the answers that are given, c.) The questions do not become demands.

So, the basic rules are these:

a) They won't be able to answer everything
b) You may not like the answers, but there they are. Keep it civil.
c) Post questions, not demands.
d) Offensive posting is not tolerated. Such posts are not constructive and just ruin it for the rest of us.

You now have a chance to ask questions directly to key ATI personell. Enjoy!:)

Edit: Originally, this was ment to be a non-eyefinity Q&A thread, but Eyefinity is the topic most of us wonder about and so people naturally asked. I've changed the headline to reflect that Eyefinity quesitons are not excluded from this thread.

My first question is:

In 3d -> AF help, it talks about activating HQ AF (but its not supported on all cards). I just bought a 5870 to test the new features. Doesn't this card support HQ AF?

All I see is the standard slide for 2x to 16x AF.

Thanks for the chance. :P
My questions :

1-Any idea about when the 5800 series drivers will support triplehead resolutions, i.e. 5040x1050, so its possible to run a matrox triplehead2go and the new GPUs ?

2-In this solution above (matrox + 5800), will crossfire be supported, as the 4870 that are supporting this technology and run triplehead at 5040x1050, after Catalyst 9.7 ?

Cool, here's mine!
I have had NVidia cards for the last three goes (7900, 8800, now 280) and one thing I really like is the ability to set quality setting independently in the Ctrl Panel. For example I still play a lot of BF2 so I set that to max in the CP, obviously that wouldn't be ideal for when I am playing Crysis Wars or GTA4! So when will ATi support this feature, I only realised when EF came out that it didn't!

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My first question is:

In 3d -> AF help, it talks about activating HQ AF (but its not supported on all cards). I just bought a 5870 to test the new features. Doesn't this card support HQ AF?

All I see is the standard slide for 2x to 16x AF.

I think this help entry is referencing some legacy options from the X1000 series. Previously we had two levels of Anisotropic filtering - see here. After from the HD 2000 series and onwards we only offered the high quality option as the default, and now with the HD 5000 series we've further improved the default algorithm - as seen here.

We probably should put a note in the help that this relates to X1000.

Thanks for the chance. :P
My questions :

1-Any idea about when the 5800 series drivers will support triplehead resolutions, i.e. 5040x1050, so its possible to run a matrox triplehead2go and the new GPUs ?

2-In this solution above (matrox + 5800), will crossfire be supported, as the 4870 that are supporting this technology and run triplehead at 5040x1050, after Catalyst 9.7 ?

I'm still trying to get to the bottom of 5040x1050 support; its not trivial and there are some questions as to how 4800 supported it.

Cool, here's mine!
I have had NVidia cards for the last three goes (7900, 8800, now 280) and one thing I really like is the ability to set quality setting independently in the Ctrl Panel. For example I still play a lot of BF2 so I set that to max in the CP, obviously that wouldn't be ideal for when I am playing Crysis Wars or GTA4! So when will ATi support this feature, I only realised when EF came out that it didn't!

Catalyst supports static profiles - you can assign the settings that you want for a particular game and then create a desktop icon for that.

[quote]Thanks for the chance. :P
My questions :

1-Any idea about when the 5800 series drivers will support triplehead resolutions, i.e. 5040x1050, so its possible to run a matrox triplehead2go and the new GPUs ?

2-In this solution above (matrox + 5800), will crossfire be supported, as the 4870 that are supporting this technology and run triplehead at 5040x1050, after Catalyst 9.7 ?

I'm still trying to get to the bottom of 5040x1050 support; its not trivial and there are some questions as to how 4800 supported it.

Are there any existing tools for creating custom resolutions? I know that full 5040x1050 on the 4800 series was just recently implemented. We've got a Matrox guy here on the forums if you'd like to get in touch with him.

Hello, and thanks to Dave Baumann & Sunsp*t for their contribution to our community!

Question: Is there any future plan to allow access to catalyst AI executable detection, for advanced users ?

edit: I just saw that this probably relates to a previous question lol
sorry about that :? and feel free to ignore it

Is there a long term and short term list of EyeFnity feature improvements for addition to the drivers? If so, are there any general things you're allowed to say about what is on those lists yet?

I'm assuming CrossFire and bezel correction are there. What others tentatively are on those lists?

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