EyeFinity....anybody know the answer to this?

[magoo]

OK.

I am reading all over the place about failures with the 10.3 beta Catalyst + Bezel management + EyeFinity with monitors that are NOT identical.

In other words, if you have three monitors that ARE NOT exactly the same, you cannot access the Bezel Management software in the Catalyst 10.3 Preview.

I've travelled the internet, and no one seems to know if this is going to carry over to the "official" catalyst release.

I have also seen the occasional person who HAS been able to get the beta to work without doing all sorts of EDID editing.

So, anybody know anything.....or should I get rid of my 2410 and buy another 2408?
I have two 2408 and one 2410 and was hoping to keep it that way. It works in non-bezelled 10.2 just fine.

 

[legoman666]

You could... I dunno, wait 2 weeks for the final 10.3s... Is that really a difficult idea?

 

[magoo]

You could... I dunno, wait 2 weeks for the final 10.3s... Is that really a difficult idea?

No that is not a difficult concept.
However, if someone knows something I don't, it might be helpful..... I dunno.....

I have read all the releases concerning the bezel management AND EyeFinity in general, and I don't see it written anywhere that monitors have to be identical.....same native resolution, yes. Identical, no.

 

[Finkus]

The dot pitch of each monitor has to be very similar. I think ATI said something like 5% tolerance between screens or it won't let you do bezel management.

 

[Rogue71]

bezel management is most likely going to be based on what kind of monitors you have ( ie: bezel size) if you have 3 different screens with 3 diff bezels it'll make things alot more complicated.
i cant wait for a stable release with bezel management...its gonna look nice.

 

[noquarter]

I read someone was able to use bezel management on non-identical monitors but he suggested the monitors had to have a narrow range of difference according to the EDID.

 

[billy.blue]

The bad news is that the bezel management sometimes eats some info.

This new feature doesn’t handle text, tables and menus particularly well, however. Even before the game was booted, we’d spotted problems: every Windows dialogue box, GRID’s installation wizard and the Steam login screen appeared directly in the middle of the image and, consequently, had to be dragged out of the way before they could be used.

Source

 

[kllrnohj]

The bad news is that the bezel management sometimes eats some info.

Source

Thank god we have articles like that to point out the bloody obvious. OF COURSE bezel management eats some info, that is the very definition of how it works. Its like bitching that wearing sunglasses inside in a dimly lit room makes reading a book hard. No shit, sherlock. The author who wrote that clearly didn't bother to do any research whatsoever and just decided to wing it.

 

[Damar]

Thank god we have articles like that to point out the bloody obvious. OF COURSE bezel management eats some info, that is the very definition of how it works. Its like bitching that wearing sunglasses inside in a dimly lit room makes reading a book hard. No shit, sherlock. The author who wrote that clearly didn't bother to do any research whatsoever and just decided to wing it.

Thing is, there are plenty of people who come to sites like this, that have no clue, and would think something was broken when looking at this sort of thing.

I'd expect it, you'd expect it, and so would most people here, but not all of them.

I still deal with people who don't understand how using 2+ monitors is possble at all on one PC.

 

[magoo]

I answered my own question today.
I uninstalled my 10.2 Cat and installed the 10.3 preview + 10.2 profiles.

Using my two dell 2408 and a Dell 2410 the Catalyst 10.3 preview works prefectly.
bezel management was offered as an option as soon as I created my new eyefinity group.

I think the bezel management works very well and was a snap to set up.