The fine folks over at HardOCP are throwing a party on July 16th. Their GameExperience event is a joint production between HardOCP and AMD. There will be tournaments, raffles, and some hands-on experience with "AMD's next generation unannounced hardware". The event will be in Deep Ellum - Dallas, TX area.
The Catalyst 11.5 release offers mostly bug fixes, and some performance improvements through the Catalyst Application Profiles. Details are as follows:
Hydravision Enhancements - HydraGrid is now aware of bezels under Eyefinity Bezel Compensation. There is also a new "Automatic Grid" that aligns to the Eyefinity display layout.
Bug Fixes - PowerDVD, Avivo, Windows Media Player, and H.264 Transcoding
CrossFireX Performance Improvements - Portal 2, Red Faction: Armageddon, The Next Big Thing, Regnum Online, Company of Heroes
This release of the Catalyst driver set brings a number of driver and performance enhancements for Eyefinity users:
Catalyst Control Center - New task-based Display Management controls which simplifies the configuration of displays and display settings.
Eyefinity Setup - New improved process for setting up an Eyefinity group.
Catalyst Update Notification - New CCC feature that notifies the user of available updates to to the driver suite.
New forum member jack.stone put together a cool Custom Launcher for Homefront. The tool provides a GUI interface for changing resolution and game quality options. It's a great tool for those who use different monitor configurations, or want to spend time tweaking their quality settings for optimal fps performance.
Stereoscopic 3D is becoming more and more common, and the WSGF is entering this latest immersive realm as well. We've added a new forum section for Stereoscopic 3D (S-3D). Some initial forum posts include a few of pointers from getting my AMD HD3D rig setup, with regards to CrossFireX and S-3D and hooking up my Samsung 3D TV.
NTHUSIM has just released v3 of their screen projection software. The new version supports a much requested feature - Edge Blending. With this feature, the edges of individual images can be overlapped to ensure a truly seamless display. You can discuss the new release in this forum thread.
The 11.3 release was largely just a bug fix driver, with no real enhancements for game performance or Eyefinity.
Depending on your point of view, the NV 3DS SLI requirement is either boon or bust. Some people view it as a limiting factor as it requires two cards and an SLI motherboard. Others view it positively as the SLI requirement ensures you have significant horsepower.
thales100 posted a forum thread that outlines how to run Mirror's Edge in Surround with PhysX. This is accomplished by using the NVIDIA Inspector utility.
Just posted a quick unboxing video of the AMD Radeon HD 6990 "Antilles" Dual-GPU GFX card I received in the mail today. It came in a cool little metal briefcase.
