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AMD has released the official Catalyst 11.8 graphics driver.

New Features:

Of special note is that the 11.8 drivers brings support for 5x1 Eyefinity back into a release driver. Many users have been stuck at 10.12 or 11.4 Preview. 5x1 users can now enjoy all the the performance improvements from recent releases.

Did you pick up Prototype on Steam's Midweek Madness sale? If so, don't miss the game's Detailed Report for an easy multi-monitor solution, it can be used to force the game running at your desktop resolution !
You can check some triple wide screenshots in this gallery.

thelolotov has been working on adjusting the Quake 4 HUD for multi-monitor. According to his forum post the tweak is by no means finished, but it's usable. In theory, the HUD, and menus, and all 2D elements can be adjusted to be centered in Triplehead, but this is much easier said than done.

The nice thing is, this mod, while specific to Quake 4, can be easily done with any other id Tech 4-based game, such as Doom 3, Prey, and possibly even Brink, in fact, Brink might be an incredibly easy fix, but as he does not own it, he can't try. Hit the forum thread for more info, and how you can test at additional resolutions.

When I attended the Texas GamExperience event, I shot some video. I've put together three different videos that I've post on YouTube:

• XFX Girl Cami Magnuson playing Dirt 3 in Eyefinity on 30' projection screen, plus a quick interview about her experiences as a girl gamer
• Video montage reel of Dirt 3 in Eyefinity on the 30' projection screen and D-Box pneumatic sim chair
• Video montage of WSGF members playing in the TF2 tournament

New in Release 280.26

nVidia SLI

Enables SLI technology on SLI-certified motherboards with AMD chipsets: 990FX, 990X, and 970.

nVidia 3D Vision

With Release 280 drivers, the 3D Vision Controller driver is now included with all GPU driver installations. Users are no longer required to install a separate 3D Vision Controller driver or CD driver. This driver includes the 280.10 3D Vision Controller driver. For more information, please view this knowledgebase article for more information.

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: August 2011

Zotac has announced a pair of passive DisplayPort adapters. Both convert the DP signal into two 1080p HDMI outputs. The two versions differ in that they connect to either DP or Mini-DP as their source. Both adapters will retail for $50.

One of our forum members linked to a forum topic over at Battle.net. In it Blizzard confirmed that Diablo wouldn't support multi-monitor such as Eyefinity or Surround. The specific response is quoted below:

Hit the source link for the battle.net forums, and be sure to bitch and moan a little about it. ;-) Hit this WSGF forum thread for discussion here.

NVIDIA has released the first beta in the Release 280 series. Major improvements and updates in the driver include:

NVIDIA SLI on AMD Chipesets - Enables SLI configurations on SLI-certified motherboards based on the AMD chipsets: 990FX, 990X and 970.

NVIDIA 3D Vision Controller - With the Release 280 drivers, the 3D Vision Controller is now included with all GPU driver installations. Users no longer need to install a separate 3D Vision Controller driver.

In addition to the 11.7 Driver release, AMD has released a preview of the 11.8 driver. It includes several key updates for gamers and Eyefinity users:

AMD HD3D - Enables support on DisplayPort panels such as the Samsung 750 and 950 series displays.

Eyefinity 5x1 - Includes support for Eyefinity 5x1. Support for 5x1 is considered "beta" by AMD, and has not been included in every driver release. The last driver to include this support was the 10.4 Preview driver.