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After a drought of Catalyst releases with no real Eyefinity updates (beyond performance updates), AMD comes in with a trifecta of Eyefinity updates. The updates of particular importance to Eyefinity users are:

• Enables support for Eyefinity 5x1 display (portrait and landscape) configurations
• Maximum supported resolution has been increased to 16000 x 16000 pixels on the AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series. (limited to DX11 applications only)
• Bezel compensation is now possible when using sets of displays that have mismatched pixel densities.

Well better a little late then never, this is actually a shorter version of the video, the full length video is 30 minutes long and includes the first full mission, that video is still uploading. Anyway, Battlefield 3 is a FPS game that has a heavy focus on its multi player side, it natively supports multi monitor resolutions but a couple of bugs make it less then a perfect solution, but its nothing the Devs can't fix if they wanted to. 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: Battlefield 3 (Triple Monitors / Eyefinity / Surround) [~4K]
Extended Version: Battlefield 3 Extended (Triple Monitors / Eyefinity / Surround) [~4K]
Forum Thread: [#18066]

I've put together a YouTube video showing how I stripped the bezels from a 22" monitor. I looked at the process for stripping the bezels, and the benefits for doing so. I also took a look at the impacts of VESA mounting and dealing with the monitor buttons.

OK, yes this is a shameless plug for the IRC channel, but please, bare with me and hear me out. Here at the Widescreen Gaming Forum we are proud to have created a friendly and helpful community to help people with there widescreen and multi-monitor needs, as well as to talk about an discuss current, upcoming and past games.

At the minute this mostly happens via the forum, but we also have an IRC Chat server which a few of us sit and idle in most of the time we are at a computer, and we would love it if you could join us. Not just because we are lonely and want the company, but also to help out new members to the community, chat in general about games and other topics, or to organise gaming sessions like for Battlefield 3 for example . We would be grateful if a few more people could idle in the channel as well, it'll help keep the channel active .

You can use the Chat link on the top menu bar to join our IRC channel, if the web client won't work for you, you can connect via any standalone IRC client by using the following details;
Host: wsgf.mine.nu
Port: 32256
Or combined: wsgf.mine.nu:32256
Channel: #WSGF
Or with the following link: irc://wsgf.mine.nu:32256/wsgf

Hope to see you in the chat channel soon

With Skyrim only being a few weeks away Beth Blog has announced what the games minimum and recommended requirements will be, so finially you'll have an idea of how well it is going to run on your system. Unfortunately there is still no information on what kind of support there will be for multi monitor systems, but I remain hopeful they have taken the route of Oblivion.

You can find the system requirements at the bottom of this news article (you'll need to click the title first if your on the home page) or via Bethblog source link at the bottom.

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: October 2011

There is an easy and fast way of enabling 3D Vision in Battlefield 3, convergence is unlocked, please check all information in this thread in our forums.

New in Version 285.62

• This is the recommended driver for Battlefield 3. It contains several performance and compatibility enhancements for the final release of the game.
• This is also the recommended and enhanced driver for Batman: Arkham City and RAGE.
• Contains a fix for the driver timeouts reported with the R285 beta drivers.

AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 Version 3 Preview Driver Features:

• Reduces random crashing and stability encountered when playing Rage on Windows® 7 32-bit edition
• Reduces object / animation flickering and texture corruption encountered when playing Rage
• Reduces stuttering seen on Dual CPU and Tri CPU core systems

The latest patch (18/10/2011) added support for Nvidia 3D Vision to this great game, but also disabled the workaround we posted when the game was released. This solution is specially dedicated to the 3D users that consider the 3D effect offered by the in game settings insufficient.
Please check this thread in our forums for all information.