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FS9/X with eyenfinity 3 Monitors info (Read 401 times)

Jan 10^th, 2011 at 8:00am

nichos Offline
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Whom it may concern.

The Ati Radeon 5770-FLEX grfx card is the simplest/cheapest way of geting FS9/X on 3 monitors.

I found it's grfx a bit better in FSX than my Nvidia 9800GTX

Here's my experience:-

The card costs £121.43 inc.vat & the cables below £18.55.

You need:
- Single-Link DVI-D to Single-Link DVI-D (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-DVI-Digital-Single-Link-Cable/dp/B000067RLQ/ref=s...)
- Single-Link DVI-D to Single-Link DVI-D (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-DVI-Digital-Single-Link-Cable/dp/B000067RLQ/ref=s...)
- HDMI to Single-Link DVI-D to plug in the boxed HDMI cable
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Premium-HDMI-Cable-Gold-Metre/dp/B000GDI6FC/ref=sr_1_1?i...)

BUT, If you're on XP, you wont be able to use
more than 2 screens.

Okay so I did some googling on AMD's website and found this in the Eyefinity FAQs:
Quote: What Operating Systems does AMD Eyefinity technology work with?
At present Windows® Vista and Windows® 7 support AMD Eyefinity technology. There are plans for Linux support in an upcoming update to AMD Catalyst™ software. There is no support for Windows® XP.

So XP isn't supported for Eyefinity, unfortunately.

« Last Edit: Jan 10^th, 2011 at 1:01pm by nichos »

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Reply #1 - Jan 11^th, 2011 at 12:46am

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nichos,

I find this interesting as I too was planning to go with eyefinity and a three monitor setup. So I purchased an AMD 6970. Great card. However, I could not get to look "shimmer" free. Autogen, distant scenery, and add-on airports were having this moire effect that I just could not tweak out of it.

Do you experience this with your set up? I did pick up an Nvidia GTX580 to compare for myself the differences. Within a couple of hours I was able to do what could not do after several days with the AMD card.

Just curious on the "look" you are getting with the Eyefinity experience.

thx,

Clutch

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Reply #2 - Jan 11^th, 2011 at 9:05am

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Sorry if I was ambiquus friend, but as you can see at the bottom of my post, I use XP & could not run Eyefinity.

Only tried the 5770 on 1 screen & it seemed a bit better than mine, except the clouds.

Sorry I can not help you ............nick

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