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X3: Albion Prelude is an stand alone add-on for Terran Conflict, and is designed to explain the changes in the X-Universe between X3:TC and X-Rebirth when it comes out next year, the game uses the same engine as Terran Conflict, so its horizontal plus with correctly scaled HUD but the interface does span all 3 screens. Once again if your monitors width is larger than 1920 pixels and you have lots of bandwidth, set the quality to original and play the video in full screen for a much higher quality.

Video Link: X3: Albion Prelude (Triple Monitors / Eyefinity / Surround) [~4K]
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The AMD Catalyst™ 12.1 Preview includes all of the features found in AMD Catalyst™ 11.12 and also includes all of the latest optimizations found in the AMD Catalyst 11.11c performance drivers (AMD Catalyst 11.12 does not include the latest 11.11c optimizations). It is highly recommended that all gamers use the AMD Catalyst 12.1 Preview driver.

Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.1 Preview driver:

AMD HD3D technology support enhancement
· Enables support for AMD HD3D technology in conjunction with AMD CrossFireX configurations

AMD Catalyst 11.11a performance driver features:
There are fixes for Batman Arkham City, Rage, Elder Scrolls Skyrim and Battlefield 3

Batman Arkham City

• Improves DirectX 11 performance for single GPU configurations

Trine 2 is a puzzle platformer that can be played in Co-Op for up to 3 people, the game does render correctly to horizontal plus but unfortunately the menu, HUD and cutscreens are all stretched. I have an extended version but that won't be ready till tomorrow. Once again if your monitors width is larger than 1920 pixels and you have lots of bandwidth, set the quality to original and play the video in full screen for a much higher quality.

Video Link: Trine 2 (Triple Monitors / Eyefinity / Surround) [~4K]
Forum Thread: Trine 2 (Triple Monitors / Eyefinity / Surround) [~4K] Video

Tom's Hardware has published their latest iteration of Best Graphics Cards For The Money, so if your in the market for an upgrade, and have a fair idea of what your budget is, you should check this article out.

Best Graphics Cards For The Money: December 2011

It's that time of the year to be voting for the best and worst of this years games and developers. We've got 3 developer awards and 1 game award to hand out this year. Even though many games now offer native widescreen resolution support and some even offer native multi-monitor support, not all do it well. To help evangelize and encourage proper implementation in widescreen and surround gaming scenarios, the WSGF seeks to recognize those developers who represent the best and worst examples of widescreen support.

Tom's Hardware has published their latest iteration of Best Gaming CPUs For The Money, so if your in the market for an upgrade, and have a fair idea of what your budget is, you should check this article out.

Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: November 2011

Next up is Need for Speed: The Run, the game fully support multi-monitor resolutions out of the box and even has a centred HUD, however it appears the Frostbite engine is over doing the lighting flares and driving into the sun will reduce your visibility to about 10 meters in-front of you. I do have an extended version uploading atm but you tube doesn't appear to want to encode them at there 4k resolution anymore. Once again if your monitors width is larger than 1920 pixels and you have lots of bandwidth, set the quality to original and play the video in full screen for a much higher quality.

Video Link: Need for Speed: The Run (Triple Monitors / Eyefinity / Surround) [~4K]
Extended Video Link: Need for Speed: The Run Extended (Triple Monitors / Eyefinity / Surround) [~4K]
Forum Thread: Need for Speed: The Run (Triple Monitors / Eyefinity / Surround) [~4K]

The WSGF is very thankful for its members who volunteer their time to fix lacking Eyefinity and Surround support in current titles. Many of these are major releases such as Battlefield, Call of Duty, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and L.A. Noire.

The lack of developer implemented multi-monitor support means that these titles will provide much less enjoyment to Eyefinity and Surround users. Without the efforts of these community volunteers many of these titles would remain usable only on single screens.

As many countries and cultures enter into their Thanksgiving and Holiday seasons, please join us in expressing our thankfulness to this volunteer army of community coders by donating in our donation drive. All of the proceeds will be distributed to the active coders on the site. It will help them with acquiring hardware and software to improve their patch development.

Thank you very much for your help and support. You can donate through PayPal by using the Chip-In in this article or in the left nav.

It's a bit late but here it is, the game natively supports multi-monitor setups however it stretches the interface which breaks it, but luckily a couple of people are working to get a fix created, this video shows one of the fixes although the fix is still work in progress. I've got an extended version on the way that will continue the video for about 28 minutes of gameplay total. Once again if your monitors width is larger than 1920 pixels and you have lots of bandwidth, set the quality to original and play the video in full screen for a much higher quality.

Video Link: Skyrim (Triple Monitors / Eyefinity / Surround) [~4K]
Extended Version: Skyrim Extended (Triple Monitors / Eyefinity / Surround) [~4K]
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