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General Admission was able to attend the AMD Tech Day 2010 on behalf of the WSGF, where the Radeon HD 6800 was launched. He was able to capture a video of the DX11 Features in LOTRO being demoed by a representative of Turbine. The gameplay footage utilizes an Eyefinity setup on three projectors.

The 10.10 driver was the release driver for the AMD Radeon HD 6870/6850. This driver introduced AMD's support for OpenCL and HD3D. There are no specific Eyefinity improvements.

Catalyst APP - Introduced AMD Catalyst Accelerated Parallel Processing ("APP") technology Edition version of the driver. This version includes the AMD OpenCL driver

AMD HD3D - Introduction of AMD HD3D Technology. This is AMD's "open source" 3D solution for Blu-Ray 3D and Stereo 3D gaming. HD3D requires an HDMI 1.4a device and the DDD or iZ3S middle-ware.

Suiken_2mieu has won the Radeon HD 6870 Turbo from HIS. Congrats to Suiken_2mieu, and thanks to HIS for their support and for the great prize.

Congrats to forum member Bewst, who won the Radeon HD 5770 IceQ 5 Turbo from HIS Digital. Additionally, Istador won the boxed copy of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat for helping us spread the word about the contest on Twitter.

Congrats to forum member perry.matthew, who won a copy of DiRT2 in our contest. At the end of the week, we will draw the winner for the Radeon HD5770 IceQ 5 Turbo from HIS on October 1st. If you'd be so kind as to give me some feedback on the contest, I would appreciate it.

Thanks to Mobster007 we have a 720p HD gameplay video of the Borderlands mission "Get Some Answers". The video is of a 3x1280x1024 DTH2Go setup, and pulled from the framebuffer of his GTX 280 via FRAPS.

Congrats to forum member sawman50, who won a copy of DiRT2 in our contest. We'll be drawing for one more game next week, and finally draw the winner for the Radeon HD5770 IceQ 5 Turbo from HIS on October 1st. If you'd be so kind as to give me some feedback on the contest, I would appreciate it.

ATI released Catalyst 10.9. Mostly just performance updates for FF XIV, Riddick: Dark Athena and STALKER. A handful of other fixes for specific issues not related to gaming or Eyefinity.

ATI released new Catalyst Application Profiles. Improvements include CrossFireX tweaks for Medal of Honor, Darksiders, NBA 2K11, Stone Giant, Civ V, HAWX 2, F1 and World of Warcraft.

Congrats to forum member Lester, who won a copy of DiRT2 in our contest. We'll be drawing two more winners for games over the next two week, and finally draw the winner for the Radeon HD5770 IceQ 5 Turbo from HIS. If you'd be so kind as to give me some feedback on the contest, I would appreciate it.