Archive for January, 2011
Eyefinity….. Success!
I caved in today and decided to buy the Displayport to Dual-Link DVI (Active USB Powered) adapter to see if it was the single-link active adapter that was causing the problem. and After reading more into the product description of the single link dvi adapter i discovered that the product supported 1920×1200 at 8-bit instead of 32-bit (that was a stupid error on my part. I didn’t read properly…)
I got home… opened up the new dual-link dvi adapter.. replaced it with the single link one. and BAM! the third monitor switched to native resolution. It worked!!!
Tried eyefinity and WOW it works!! 
… so I decided to do the final test, which is to run Left 4 Dead 2 on eyefinity setting to see how well it ran. I ran it in single player campaign and everything seems to be running perfectly fine. I didn’t notice any lag what so ever, though I didn’t really run it extensively. I just made it to the first safe house and quit the game… But the fact that it ran without lag on a 5770 radeon is good enough..
Now I will start saving money for a new system.. Hopefully I will be fully upgraded by April, May period with either the new Socket 1155 system or the upcoming AM3+ system from AMD. I have time to save up enough money for a good enough system…
Right now my desk is too messy for a photo. I shall clean my desk one day and post a picture of my improved workstation with 3 displays.. and a secondary linux terminal.. ^_^
Eyefinity failed….
I tried setting up eyefinity last night with a new adapter I purchased at Canada Computers.. The Accell Displayport to Single-Link DVI-D (Active) adapter… Plugged it in and all three displays turned on. Great! it works. BUT the display connected to the displayport adapter was at a low resolution. At 1024×768 or something. So i set it the monitor’s main resolution. which was 1680×1050… BAM! all three monitors turned off for some reason. Couldn’t figure out why. So I unplugged the displayport from the back of the video card and magically the other 2 displays came back to life.
Second attempt was to plug it in again and try it at a lower resolution. 1280×960.. hmmm It worked.. already no big deal. Maybe the bandwidth requires eyefinity to be enabled. So opened up catalyst control center and turned on eyefinity. 3:1 display horizontal…. Pressed the apply button……. Monitors blinked and turned Black. /facepalm…. so much for it being eyefinity validated….
Third attempt. maybe it’s just drive issue. I was using 10.3 yesterday which are pretty outdated now, since ATi comes out with new drivers at least once a month. Downloaded and installed 10.12 drivers. Restarted the machine and tried again.. Same deal… all three monitors turned off when eyefinity is enabled.. and all 3 monitors turned off if i try to run them at their native resolutions..
1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1680×1050 respectively.. So this was at like midnight so I gave up for the time being and now I’m running 1280×960, 1920×1080 and 1680×1050 for the time being. I have to replace my old BenQ monitor soon anyway. I might pick up the Dell 22″ DP ready monitor sometime within the next 2-3 months. Hopefully they won’t be EOL by then. lol
Having triple monitors regardless if one of them looks retarded in terms of resolution. is pretty awesome. lol Can’t wait to fully try out eyefinity!
- @alanhsu disappointed... i thought you were an IT guy....