HardOCP was fortunate enough to get a preview Radeon HD 6990 "Antilles", and was able to provide a sneak peak. While I'm quite jealous that we didn't get a preview card, this does bode well for review samples coming soon.
This release of the Catalyst driver suite adds a number of new features. The major improvement is the addition of Morphological Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon 5000 series. Previously this feature has only been available for the AMD Radeon 6000 series.
Thales100 posted an overview of updating GRAW2 to add support for Anti-Aliasing and Widescreen/Surround using the GRAW2 Widescreen Fixer, developed by HaYDeN.
The 11.1 version of the doesn't offer any major improvements for Eyefinity users. It does add support for the Fusion APU to the Catalyst suite. Additionally, it offers performance improvements for:
F1 2010 - At least 10%
Left4Dead 2 - Between 8% - 17%
Aliens vs. Predator - QuadFire Fix
Engadget posted an article with the first sighting of the Radeon HD 6990. The info and images come courtesy of 4Gamer.net. The card does appear to support 5x1 output with four Mini-DP and one DL-DVI. I wish the card had 6xMini-DP, as I have my Eyefinity6 card running Mini-DP to my 5x1-P, and Mini-DP > HDMI to my HDTV.
A bit late on this one as well. Thanks to members ViciousXUSMC and GeneralAdmission, the indie arcade flight sim Dogfighter now works in Eyefinity/Surround. Thanks to Vicious and GA for their lobbying efforts, and thanks to Black Water Studios for putting in the effort to patch the game.
A 21:9 display offers a 2.33:1 aspect, and is closer to to the "cinematic" movie aspect ratio of 2.78:1. This will result in lower black bars for movie watching. It also provides a wider aspect for gaming.
Even if you aren't a fan of multi-monitor gaming (Eyefinity & Surround), the work of the WSGF helps to ensure that games on these single ultra-wide monitors would be Hor+. It's aspect ratio is only slightly narrower than a 5x1-P Eyefinity setup of 2.8:1.
We've started a forum thead with a running list of CES 2011 News that will be of interest to our readers. Found news or announcements that are of interest? Post them as well
Chris Greiner from Mounted Concepts announced that ViscousXUSMC was the winner of the Ergotech Heavy Duty Triple Desk Stand.
An article over at Tech Powerup outlined how to flash a Radeon HD 6950 and unlock additional SIMD engines to make it function like a Radeon HD 6970. The Dual BIOS feature of the 6900 series makes the procedure safe, and the PowerTune feature helps keep the power threshold under 225W. Hit this forum thread to discuss.
