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ATI released Catalyst 10.9. Mostly just performance updates for FF XIV, Riddick: Dark Athena and STALKER. A handful of other fixes for specific issues not related to gaming or Eyefinity.

ATI released new Catalyst Application Profiles. Improvements include CrossFireX tweaks for Medal of Honor, Darksiders, NBA 2K11, Stone Giant, Civ V, HAWX 2, F1 and World of Warcraft.

ATI recently announced immediate availability of Single-Link DVI > DisplayPort Adapters for Eyefinity. The adapters are immediately available from suppliers such as Accell and Sapphire. The support a maximum resolution of 1920x1200, and do not require any external power. I was able to get hands on with them. They are simply plug and play, need to drivers and simply work.

ATI released Catalyst 10.8. For Eyefinity users, the release is largely an incorporation of the Tri-Fire and Quad-Fire updates, and the AA fix for StarCraft II found in the 10.7a hotfix. There were additional performance updates and CrossFireX profile updates for a number of titles, including LOTRO and Left4Dead2.

Still no 5x1-Portrait support. We've seen it recently in the wild, and hopefully the 3x1-P CFX and QuadFire improvements are steps on the road to 5x1-P support.

Delphium has been doing some work on solving his DP flickering issues. He found that powering the Active DP Adapter with his HTC cellphone charger SOLVED THE FLICKERING.

The 10.7 release brought a several enhancements, with one major enhancement for Eyefinity users. Additionally, it brought new Linux support. AMD also released a 10.7a Hotfix.

CrossFireX for Portrait Configurations - Improves the CrossFireX implementation in Eyefinity by adding support for 3x1-Portrait configuraitons.

Eyefinity / HydraVision Enhancements - Maximizing a window across multiple displays now takes Bezel Compensation into account. Dialog boxes can now be forced to the "preferred" display, and they will not display behind bezels

Shane Parfitt and Terry Makedon from ATI (two people actually in my email Roledex ^_^) talk about Open Source 3D from ATI. Leveraging HDMI 1.4a and DisplayPort 1.2, ATI expects to have Open Source 3D support out by Christmas.

This past weekend marked the American Independence Day. I found it fitting that Independence Day was the first weekend after NVIDIA released their 3D Vision Surround drivers - an act which brings real competition to the multi-monitor scene.

Overall the 10.6 had minimal new features or fixes for Eyefinity users. This continues to be a trend as the overall Eyefinity ecosystem and experience reaches maturity:

Video Acceleration in Flash - GPU acceleration of H.264 video content in Flash 10.1

OpenGL 4.0 and 3.3 - Official support of OpenGL 4.0 and 3.3

Overall the 10.5 had minimal new features or fixes for Eyefinity users:

ATI Overdrive - Enhanced to deliver full support for over-clocking functionality on supported ATI Radeon HD graphics accelerators connected to multiple display configurations

Catalyst Control Center - Fixed issue where the CCC now remembers the position of the fourth monitor in the Eyefinity group5

Battlefield 2: Bad Company - Fixed issue with map load time.

Mass Effect 2 - Alt-Tabbing to the desktop no longer causes the display to go blank.