AMD Crimson: Automatic Eyefinity Profiles for Games

[Haldi]

Hi,

You might have heard of AMD Crimson, the replacement for AMD Catalyst Control Center. New User Interface and a lot of new Features.
You can read about it there: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9811/amd- ... r-overview
And you can download it from AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/d ... ws+10+-+64

Well, why should we care about that?
A: Custom Resolutions
B: Automatic Eyefinity Profiles per game.

Well A: isn't that important as this was possible via CRU software a long time ago, but B: is a real gem.

There is also the "Quick Setup" for Eyefinity without bezel correction that works realy quick, and you shoul probably activate this before starting a Game in Eyefinity with the automatic mode. I've had some quirks with games not being used to run in 5760x1080 after the new driver installation. But in the 2nd try the automatic mode works flawless.

Eyefinity Settings:

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Games on your System:

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Game specific settings:

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Automatically activate Eyefinity for this Game:

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And here we have the proof of concept how awesomely this works:
[youtube]http://youtube.com/v/HrQVvUGXvXc[/youtube]


I think i'm gonna setup this option for all games i use in Eyefinity and don't need presets and hotkeys anymore.

[Haldi]

But it seems like this does not work with Bezel correction
Or at least not for me.

[Leonelf]

can I disable eyefinity from my "main" setup? I'd like to only use it when gaming, but have it disabled when surfing/working...

[Abram]

I was wondering when they'd get around to releasing those. They've been using that terrible CCC interface for too long. I'm tempted to try them out, but brand new drivers are often too much of a pain, and seeing you had trouble with bezel compensation scares me out of it. Not having it on drives me nuts. you have me thinking is was a Win10-only thing, but i found the Win7x64 version here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+7+-+64

Leonelf: I used to turn Eyefintiy on/off for gaming/non-gaming. But I recently started using DisplayFusion, which sets virtual screen edges so I can maximise windows to screens edges with EF enabled. Now I keep EF on all the time.

[Leonelf]

I was wondering when they'd get around to releasing those. They've been using that terrible CCC interface for too long. I'm tempted to try them out, but brand new drivers are often too much of a pain, and seeing you had trouble with bezel compensation scares me out of it. Not having it on drives me nuts. you have me thinking is was a Win10-only thing, but i found the Win7x64 version here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+7+-+64

Leonelf: I used to turn Eyefintiy on/off for gaming/non-gaming. But I recently started using DisplayFusion, which sets virtual screen edges so I can maximise windows to screens edges with EF enabled. Now I keep EF on all the time.

Does it work like native Monitors?

edit: meh, youtube maximizes to all screens, chrome fullscreen aswell

[Haldi]

but brand new drivers are often too much of a pain, and seeing you had trouble with bezel compensation scares me out of it. Not having it on drives me nuts.

Well yeah, there seem to be some little bugs.
But bezel correction itself works fine, if you activate "Advanced eyefinity mode" and not the quick one.
It's just that if you use the "automatic Eyefinity" switch in the profiles it does NOT switch into the pre defined bezel corrected EF resolution but into the normal one. Activating Eyefinity normally gives Bezel correction.

[Abram]

Oh that's good.

Leonelf, I tried to send you a PM, but it won't let me add you to the recipients. Fire on off to ME, and I'll get ya back.

[coroner_]

Total res boost for me... with the virtual super res option. went from 5760x1080 to 7940x1440
Some games seem to not like it so far but DeusEx: HR handled it great

[Haldi]

what? How? I get a 9600x1800 with VSR activated.

Edit: The Bezel Correction was a problem with my system.
After a DDU uninstall of the Beta drivers, a reinstall of Crimson, a advanced Setup of Eyefinity and Bezel correction setup, then disable Eyefinity, set the Options in game profile it now switches to 6048x1080 Eyefinity when the game Starts

You probably need to set Bezel correction the first time you setup an Eyefinity resolution.

[suiken_2mieu]

How is 5x1 landscape?

[Haldi]

No idea, while the quick setup might fail is the advanced one exactly the same as it has been before.
So the automatic switch should work if you have once set up an Eyefinity desktop.

[coroner_]

what? How? I get a 9600x1800 with VSR activated.

Edit: The Bezel Correction was a problem with my system.
After a DDU uninstall of the Beta drivers, a reinstall of Crimson, a advanced Setup of Eyefinity and Bezel correction setup, then disable Eyefinity, set the Options in game profile it now switches to 6048x1080 Eyefinity when the game Starts

You probably need to set Bezel correction the first time you setup an Eyefinity resolution.

I have 2 - 7870's in eyefinity crossfire, with 3 - Asus 23" vs238's. I dont play with the beta drivers but I did keep the existing eyefinity profile from before. I should reset it.
Seeing the jump to 7940x1440 which is above the monitor spec is a nice surprise, though the monitor itself still reports 1080.

edit - I removed the profile and did quick setup, now without bezel comp. its giving my 7680x1440

[R0nniew00d]

can anyone check if this eyefinity profile works with AC4...I can only get eyefinity working in that game if i use 14.4 drivers

[Abram]

VSR + Eyefintiy finally, eh? Well, I guess I'll have install it.

[Abram]

Well, no VSR + Eyefintiy for me. Poop. I was able to turn VSR on for each panel after i created my EF Group. I wonder if it's mixed panels, PLP, or dumb luck that is to blame. And here I was all wet to play some games with those neat resolutions. Though VSR works fine for Single displays. I also see they removed the ability to give Presets a Hotkey. One step forward, one step back.

I was disappointed to see that the new interface is just a very basic, (but pretty) front, and all the advanced stuff still uses the old eyesore of a layout.

Edit: Ooo! Now I also find that they've removed any handy options from the systray icon, and the Search function in the old lame layout is now gone, too. And they still use the terrible screen for adjusting bezels. If if wasn't fior the fixes for newer games, I'd be going back to the last driver set. Hopefully the next one will fix some of this stuff.

[spacepiggio]

Not to be harsh but that is a terrible tutorial, I really was hoping for some decent tutorial. You play music & do not explain what you are doing & with that angle you can not even see what you are doing. If you can post another one & actually say something & turn the music off I would appreciate it. I am interested in learning more about the override options for the game. I was trying to configure the graphic settings for 7 Days To Die & I can not get it right, It uses Unity.

[Carr]

I have just recently upgraded to a R9 390X with my 3+1 setup. Previously I had the +1 running off the motherboard as my 270X could only drive 3 monitors. Now with all 4 running off the new card I am having problems getting the auto Eyefinity setup to work in the game profiles of Crimson 16.1.1, more specifically it is using a 4x1 profile instead of the 3x1 profile. I haven't been able to find a way to control the Eyefinity profiles within Crimson (or CCC for that matter) and usually go into additional settings off the display tab to enable/disable the Eyefinity and select the one I want. I would run Eyefinity all the time but I have several games that I play on a single screen for various reasons from performance to compatibility. Not sure it will impact but I am running a combination of 1xHDMI-HDMI, 1xActive DP-HDMI with HDMI-HDMI, 1xDVI-I-HDMI and 1xDP-HDMI cable, I can't remember off the top of my head which is plugged into which monitor but all are working fine other than the automatic game profile Eyefinity option.

Any idea how to default it to the 3x1 config or to disable the 4x1?

Something else I found, when initially setting up the Eyefinity profiles with all 4 screens plugged in I was getting an error message when any combination of 2 monitors were selected saying "Incompatible configuration" or something similar. I worked around it by unplugging the 4th monitor and setting the 3x1 up, then plugging the 4th back in and it worked fine. It even now allows me to do the 4x1 giving me grief as mentioned above.

[Haldi]

Ah so every time auto setup starts you get a 4x1L.
Tell me, the first time ever you switched to eyefinity was the easy setup or the advanced?
I think the auto setup chooses the first ever setup.
Maybe if you clean uninstall and reinstall then use the advanced for a 3x1L that might help the auto switching.
If you you definitely should file a bug report with AMD.
I've had my 4th monitor disconnected for a while now as the cable is to short and my 4th Monitor is hidden beneath my 3rd xD

[Carr]

Ok, I just did some testing and the same thing happened. I did a clean install of Crimson 16.1.1 using DDU, setup 3x1L eyefinity through the old CCC interface (again having to unplug the 4th monitor to be able to do it) and launched a game from extended monitor setup with the profile set to use eyefinity. It attempted to load in 4x1L (despite it not being setup) but failed and just turned off all my monitors. After resetting the PC, it loaded with 4x1L SLS and the option comes up when enabling eyefinity to choose between the 3x1 and 4x1. I would run the 4th monitor off the motherboard again, but it causes problems with driver conflicts in some of my programs I frequently use.

Is there a way anyone know to delete or disable profiles?

[Garrett]

It sounds like the "Use Eyefinity" feature is only designed to enable the group made through Radeon Settings, so it is simply generating it again if it doesn't exist. The displays all shutting off indicates that this is what it is doing (I've sometimes had this result when making the Radeon Settings group for the first time).

The layout made by Radeon Settings does show up in Radeon Additional Settings, so you might be able to get around this by disabling the profile, but I can't test the results right now with my current setup (Radeon Settings doesn't support 2x1 for some reason).

1. Have only the 3x1 displays connected.
2. Make the Eyefinity group in Radeon Settings.
3. Disable the Eyefinity group through Radeon Additional Settings.
4. Reconnect the fourth display.
5. Try launching one of the "Use Eyefinity" games.

If Radeon Settings re-uses its existing group this approach should work, but it could be that it automatically discards the group when additional displays are detected.

If this workaround doesn't work there probably isn't much you can do with this Radeon Settings feature since the new interface provides no control over display selection or which group to use.