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So you set a FPS cap of, say 100, then lower all game settings that it will never dip below?

Awesome - can't wait to check it out! Instant Game Response is just turning off some processing that adds to input lag right? I've actually never been sensitive to that. I've used a 43 Dell IPS for gaming for a while and never noticed input lag (even though it's supposed to be pretty high...

Hey thanks! So to be clear - if I have GSYNC on but the game goes about 120 FPS I could see some tearing (odd that I have not). I was under the mistaken impression that GSYNC just handled this and there would be no tearing regardless of framerate. If you cap your FPS below 120, so you are...

Got mine in a week or so ago and am loving it! Couple questions: Doesn't GSYNC just work if you enable the checkbox in Nvidia Control Panel? I saw a few pages back people were saying you had to hard force VSYNC in Nvidia and cap frame rate. Is this just for games that don't natively support...

I'm pretty sure "Modern UI" is the term Microsoft prefers people to use rather than "Metro." And yes, it can be confusing.

My wife needed a new laptop and she was interested in the ones that could convert into a tablet, so you could get the best of both worlds. The laptop is folded over like a tablet most of the time, and if you want to browse the internet or watch a video, you just pick it up and go. Really...

ugh - I think you are the first person I've encountered who actually liked playing with ninjas who pick everything up while you killed the enemies. One of the best changes imho.

I'm actually not even sure what you are saying there. Wouldn't supported eyefinity/surround be supporting a wider range of hardware, which is what you are saying makes blizzard all that money? Eyefinity sort of works anyway, so I don't see much of a big deal here (most games have screwed up...

You can shoot stuff offscreen. I don't recall how far, but I definitely did it. I only played in eyefinity for about 5 minutes though. Didn't like where my inventory showed up.

Nah - it's actually really nice looking. The HUD made it pretty unplayable and not worth it, but if the inventory and those popups showed up on the center screen and your party and minimap were on the sides of your center monitor it would be a vast improvement over a single screen. It's...

Pretty sure six months was just his own thinking, not a quote from Blizzard. And regarding quotes from Blizzard, I'm pretty sure they also said none of the things you mentioned either.

Agreed - pretty misleading. It just suffers the same problems that many many games that "support" triple monitor do. Namely the HUD is stretched. Diablo 3 actually does a really good with that bottom bar, though.

Wut........

I'd be surprised if Diablo 3 on three screens really required SLI or Crossfire. I ran it on three, but didn't check if it was using crossfire. I turned it off in the end though. You go into your inventory a lot, and having to go wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy right to do it was a pain.

Woah - such hostility. I ask because the game plays fine for a while then the flickering textures start appearing. So it seemed reasonable that perhaps you didn't see the issue because you only loaded up the game to see how fast it was. It IS a fairly old game by now. For example, I...

Are you actually playing the game through? Or just testing your cards? I ask because it can play just fine for a while, then at some point it happens. Restarting the game usually fixes it, but its annoying enough that I am not playing it until a new driver comes out.

it's definitely a crossfire thing. It never did it when I had one card in. Or the RC11 driver.

Ever since I installed a second 7970, Crysis 2 textures flicker randomly (sometimes horribly.) Is the driver listed now the same as the RC11 added earlier this month? It says it was updated 1/25, but I think they just added some information.

The cloned mode happened to me the first couple times I set it up. I always just do things a bit different until the presets work. It is incredibly annoying, but at least I only have to go through it once (I recall having the same problem with my 5970.)

I personally don't think the 7950 is overpriced at its level of performance. I agree with others however, that for just a bit more you could get a 7970, so I don't see the market.

I'm definitely disappointed in the announcement that 7 series will be officially supported in March. I mean, come on now, AMD is now charging big boy prices, let's get some big boy drivers.

It took a little while for it to work on my 5970, but that was a known issue out of the gate. I haven't really had many problems since then using them both.

Just wanted to give a quick update. Dropped my second 7970 in and crysis 2 ran great and used the second card but only in 1920x1200 (scaled beautifully.) Once I kicked in eyefinity the second card quit working. So it sounds to me like this is likely an eyefinity + crossfire issue

Thanks for the tips! I personally never noticed microstutter, so maybe I'm one of the lucky ones. I'm not sure about turning vsync on, however, because I have noticed the input delay having it on gets you, but I never tried it with a framelimiter. I turned vsync on occasionally when games...

That's probably it then. I'll bet most people who are struggling bought two of these at launch to run eyefinity. I recall it took a while for my 5970 to support eyefinity with crossfire. I could do single screen with crossfire fine, or eyefinity with one GPU, but not both. My second card...

xoleras, Were your games tested using eyefinity or single screen (or both.) I know Kyle runs eyefinity so perhaps he is struggling with that (same with the earlier poster), while you are running single screen. I know there is always extra driver work to get crossfire working with eyefinity.

What conversation are you responding to? I said you were silly because you said AMD doesn't care how these cards run in crossfire in eyefinity. I was simply saying of course they care. But to broach your unrelated information, I can give you one game right now - Crysis 2 at 1900x1200 did...

That's just being silly - of course AMD wants to show these new cards in their best light running in eyefinity.

I picture this room at nvidia with rows and rows of cubes with developers working on their drivers, while AMD has a few guys from the hardware team doing it in their spare time (at home probably.)

Do you mean the 5970? Funny that is the card I just replaced and had really very little problems with eyefinity with it. Probably ran different games, I'd guess. I only replaced it with the 7970 because it started to physically flake out and it was out of warranty :(

So I read this entire thread and am still not entirely sure of the answer. My graphics card came with a little piece of paper that said "download the driver from AMD because of updates" for some last minute update or something. So that's the driver I am using. The driver online looks...

Hmm...very sad, I just ordered a second one since the one I just got seemed so solid. I assumed it all worked since I saw several crossfire X reviews that said it was awesome, just figured the other sites were a bit slow to do all the benchmarks. :(

XFX has the best warranty!

Nice color - I'd like to water cool.

You could be right. I'm pretty sure I'd read that at 1600x1200 you really want to use the DVI interface for best picture quality. I normally wouldn't make a big issue of $50, but I was planning on getting a video card that is under $100, so the adapter costing more than the card just seems...

Wait for ATI to create some active displayport adapters that don't cost $100 as they indicated they were pursuing when the 5xxx series launched. Was my original post unclear?

Thanks everyone! I'm looking for the active displayport dongles, however. My screens are all 1600x1200, so the VGA one might work, but just on principle I'll wait (also I'd rather avoid any hassles.) Guess ATI isn't in any hurry :(

I know ATI has been promising these for months, but is there any update on some cheaper active displayport adapters? I wanted to get a cheaper ATI 5xxx card for work for three monitors, but buying a $99 adapter sort of defeats the purpose of buying a cheaper card.

Why are people complaining about how hard it is to line up then? I was worried about having to fiddle with it for half an hour when I rotate it to get them to line up perfectly again.