Widescreen Gaming Forum

I was beginning to have nerd rage over the lack of 5x1 support. You happen to know if 5x1L is still enabled too? Be mindful you need to use a resolution less than 8000 width to test it.

I can confirm that 11.8 Preview offered both 5x1-P and 5x1-L when I got into the CCC Eyefinity setup.

That being said, I had serious problems with installing 11.8 Preview. When I installed it, I lost the Catalyst Control Panel. If I downgraded to 11.7, I got it back. I followed this article from the AMD KB, but to no avail. I believe the article is on the right path with it being an issue with the .Net and CCC interaction.

My nerd rage kicked in, in full. I did a complete wipe and reinstall of Win7 to get it to work. The one thing I noticed is this... On my previous install, I had components for .Net v1 and .Net v4 installed. However, I *DID NOT* have .Net v3.5 installed. Upon the clean install and "Windows Update" routine, I had all three versions of .Net installed. With my first attempt to install the 11.8 Preview, it now worked...

If you are having problems installing a Preview/Beta version of the driver, I would suggest checking your installed components/programs and see if .Net v3.5 is installed. It can be manually installed by downloading from Microsoft.

Just to note, this is the first problem I've had installing an ATI/AMD driver. I've installed every available driver (since I installed Win7), one on top of the other. This includes every release, preview and beta driver. It also accounts for swapping cards frequently to do all the testing and benchmarking for the WSGF.

In the end, 5x1 users finally have a real driver update in the 11.8 Preview. I called my contact at AMD about the update in this driver, and his response was that to this point the 5x1 support was considered beta and wasn't included in every driver update. It had been included in the non-WHQL drivers (10.12 and 11.4 Preview). This 11.8 Preview will provide all of the recent performance updates from the "Mjölnir" initiative. He also confirmed that their goal is to have the 5x1 support in the release drivers during Q4 2011.

Thanks for the update re driver support going forward.

Have to say I am very impressed with the performance improvements of 11.8 preview over 11.4 preview for 5x1.

Just installed 11.8 preview after driver sweeper and CCleaner in safe mode. No problems on my install. I'll be able to test 5x1L later in the week.

I cannot for the life of me install this thing. I'm thinking of reinstalling windows and going for it.

hi,
following what you write, what you answer ! i bought my 5 displays, my EAH6950. Tomorrow, i recieve my last ergotron stand. i will tell you if it works. i will thank you later for your patience to answer our questions.

see you tomorrow

hi





with the 11.8 preview !

Thank you !

Cool to see another 5x1 user. :bigsmile:

Nice

hy,

sorry but I forgot to present my 5x1 configuration.
Thank you for your help suiken_2mieu with the tip of the 10.12a

works with the 8.11 preview without problems

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