First of all, you need to click on triangles within the menu that expand the drop down options that you need. In order to find them, it required two things. The submenu's to enable Eyefinity were present within the Display tab however. More to the point, there is nothing upon initial inspection that particularly suggests that such a feature even exists. However, unlike the aforementioned examples where you will very quickly find parameters such as Anti Aliasing or Graphics Memory Frequency respectively, you will not see the word "Eyefinity" at all. As a matter of fact if you were to access the Display section, I can confirm that you're in the right place. Under similar logic, if you wanted to go about enabling ATi Eyefinity Modes, you would access the "Display" section. Likewise if you wished to overclock your graphics card, you'd go to the "Overdrive" section. If you wanted to change global image quality settings, you know you'd go to the "3D" section. Those of whom who are used to ATi's Catalyst Control Center are aware of its relative ease of use. "I went to the store to buy ketchup but could only find opaque bottles of 'preserved liquid tomato-vinegar'." Having tested both Cloned and Extended Desktop Modes, it became quite evident that the Catalyst Driver's supposed “user friendly” nature was about to turn a little pear shaped. From a multitasking perspective, this is a very unique experience. This essentially left us with a large workspace of three independent monitors, all operating at their native resolutions of 1920x1200, 1920x10x900 respectively. Returning to the situation at hand, it is as simple as a couple of key presses to change your monitor configuration from the initial Clone Mode to Extended Desktop. Enabling Eyefinity will coax your system into believing that your three monitors are infact one single device that operates at one large resolution.
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ATi's Catalyst Driver allows you to operate your monitors as three separate devices and thus be able to use conventional multi-monitor modes, however this is not Eyefinity. It is indeed possible to use all three monitors without Eyefinity. “If you're using Three Monitors, Eyefinity is enabled.” - Well no, not quite. Before, I go into any further detail I'd like to mention the monitor configurations available.ģ) Triple Monitor – Extended Desktop Mode In order to do anything useful with your three monitors, you will need to check in to the Catalyst Control Panel. So far so good.ish.Īti Catalyst Control Center automatically initialised all three monitors in “Clone” Mode, where all three monitors are generating duplicate content. Next, we connected our Samsung HDTV and then finally our HP Monitor. We begun our triple monitor endeavour with just our Dell Ultrasharp 2408WFP monitor connected, for installation processes. Theoretically, our combination of monitors should work fine.but how about in practice? Let's find out. Since our visit to ATi's Eyefinity briefing in London last year, we have been fully aware of the feature's adaptability in terms of mixing and matching monitors. Further details can be found in the table below. With this in mind, we decided to assemble an eyefinity setup for the "budget conscious" and so, with a mindset of overzealous anti-symmetry and intentional imperfection, we found ourselves with the mongrel Eyefinity configuration that we hoped for.ĭifferent monitor brands? Check. On the other hand, many users have redundant televisions/monitors waiting to find another use and as such might also have little care for commonality, let alone colour production or contrast ratio. Sadly, this idealistic notion comes in at a stellar price tag, more so if you're an IPS or PVA panel snob. Symmetry matters greatly under many multi-monitor uses and if anything else, it simply reduces the risk of unnecessary complication. In a nutshell, technological advances combined with a pinch of ATi initiative have brought something new and rather special to the home user.Ĭommon sense would dictate a three monitor setup to consist of identical panels of the same size and native resolution. The nature of displayport means that it is now feasible to implement the functionality to run up to three monitors at once or even six with an upcoming derivative of the Radeon HD 5870 graphics card.
However the new Displayport interface benefits from the ability to drive multiple displays from just a single clock source. If your graphics card sported HDMI and/or DVI, those interfaces commanded a dedicated clock source for every port implemented to the graphics card. This was due to a hardware limitation that manifested in the types and configurations of display outputs used.
Prior to the release of the Radeon HD 5xxx series, you'd be limited to use one or two displays per graphics card and no more.
A major advantage held by ATi is their new Multi-Monitor Technology known as "Eyefinity".
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