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Terminal I bet you'd love to be trapped in an elevator with the ATI team you have so much love for them :)

There is a next patch? Last I heard they had stopped patching it until the expansion sequel comes.. I would like to be proven wrong though :) It badly needs a patch. Performance in CloD was good for me when overclocked no stutters. Although still not vsync 60 but you can't have everything. The rest of the game is lacking a bit though so I went back to IL2 1946 4.11 with ultra pack and lots of mods. It's quite nice when you pimp it a bit with nice cockpits and skins, maps, textures etc.

Strange, cd driver is all ive used

How long for? With the CD driver it crashes in Fullscreen after 15 minutes but appears ok before that.

I ran ROF in triple screen 5000x1600 with SoftTH at 60fps most of the time. It's more GPU intensive than DCS but less CPU intensive. DCS windowed mode 2 screens (1mfd) 3760x1600 was about 45fps. If Fullscreen wouldn't crash I would do Fullscreen SoftTH. This is overclocked 20%

Has anyone else tried Windowed mode? I just got through a 25 minute mission without ANY crashes. Every other time in full screen I would get crash after 10-15 minutes. Haven't got time to test more at the moment, but you guys should try Window mode and see how you go. Seems ok so far.. ps I'm still using the original Sapphire drivers.

Leaks! Sounds a bit too scary.. A guy has done it I just read 1335Mhz, but he had some trouble setting up http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1038284400#post1038284400

Are they hard to setup? I've never done water so I have no idea. I guess we need other hardware to go with

I'm still on the Sapphire drivers, everything works except for DCS. Multimonitor is working well, I'm using Portrait/Landscape/Portrait so the Bezels are not in my main view. They are off to the sides with the portraits just doing some peripheral. My center is a nice Dell 30" Running IL-2 and Rise of Flight at about 5000x1600 is a dream. Trackir I've adjusted the horizontal yaw so it moves much less now because I have more view, TIR is now more useful in the vertical. FPS games though the side monitors are great since FPS don't support TIR. Battlefield 3 I dragged across all 3 monitors and it's running about 50-60fps, with Landscape and AA turned down. Still ultra textures, meshes etc, looks great. Overclocked mine to 1175/1575 is the most stable for me, everything running really high frame rates. Can't wait to try DCS properly though :(

Card is in, tried DCS A-10C 64bit with the drivers on the Sapphire website from 14th January. I thought it was working, actually got to 14 minutes and 57 seconds into the first instant action mission. Just about to drop an LGB and it froze, sound still on but black screen. I'll ask around my squad for a 32 bit version this weekend but not sure when I'll have time to test due to a ROF tournament coming up. The good news is though, this card is a beast (as we know!). I setup SoftTH for ROF, added some pixels for Bezels and it's running ROF 5160x1600 at 60 frames per second above 500m, 40-50 close to the ground. Very nice! I'll be having a SoftTH week next week setting it up for all my other games (except DCS until a fix). ps MSI Afterburner overclocked to 1125 core, 1575 mem with no voltage changes, but custom fan curve up to 100% at 85. Burn test 15min furmark and it didn't get above 70, no issues. These Sapphires are great cards, I've heard people getting 1200+ on them. I wonder what we will see when people start getting water or better coolers.

Yeah with all the eye candy turned up, ROF looks amazing. I think with trackir it makes up alot for not having a wide view. But I've got lots of other games like Skyrim, Fallout, Mount & Blade that don't support trackir so it would be good to get more view. Same for Battlefield but sadly it's directx 11 so SoftTH will not work with it. Anyway it will need all the power it can get for center screen eye candy. But older games like DCS will handle multimonitor, and lower frames don't matter as much when not gunfighting. But why couldn't you get VSync working? I'm planning to use SoftTH for ROF and SoftTH does allow VSync, so surely Eyefinity would do at least what SoftTH can do...

Not a good idea to get previous, version mismatch could cause issues. Best to find someone who has the current build installed on 32 bit OS. If someone has this and can give me the contents of the binary folder I will test it. I'll install the card tonight, Im just about to catch the train back from the warehouse. The card is looking sooo sexy

Yeah PCCaseGear I use as well, but they are in Melbourne. AusPcmarket is a good find. Their warehouse is only 10 minutes from a train station so easy for me to leave work early and train it straight there from the city. I just can't wait to use my 3rd monitor anymore, hence I'm picking it up :) NVidia have really been left behind only allowing 2 monitors per card and having so many restrictions on NVidia surround. I just hope ATI drivers catchup. Maybe with all the cash they are going to make from the 7 series they can beef up their driver team. In the meantime at least we have FC2 and Blackshark1 to keep us occupied, and Rise of Flight and Arma2 will benefit from this card tremendously. I'm thinking of even trying IL-2 again too. Plus my Dragonborn simulator in multi screen with high res textures is going to be nice ;)

Ahh I couldn't remember if the last install asked if I wanted the 32bit exes. You would have to install the Original A-10C release, that would ask you if you want 32bit. But then it's not good from a user point of view in that no one wants to play an old version. It would only help for troubleshooting for ATI and ED and for us. What if you asked a 32bit XP user to send you their EXE? The original installer used to provide one, so it may still work if you copy it into your 64bit install. Anyway, I can't wait any longer I am going to AusPCMarket this afternoon to pickup a Sapphire 7970. They seemed to give you good service testing the card for you etc, much more than I can say for other etailers I was trying to find the card. I had placed an order at centrecom for an XFX Black edition, the site said stock, they had no stock and didn't tell me just left me waiting for days until I asked - and they provide no phone number. Only a webform. These AusPCMarket guys seem more reliable. The reference ones I'm hearing reports that they overclock just as well as the black edition, and I may replace the cooler myself one day anyway. $150 cheaper for reference over the black edition too. I just hope my displayport cable is arriving by post today as well..

That's what I suspected.. I suggested it but no one would test it in 32 bit. Are you sure you guys can't just test DCS 32 bit exe just to rule it out? I know driver layer etc etc but bugs in computer software have lots of surprising reasons. Worth a test if you can..

Ahh it's because of Windows Aero? I don't use Aero I turned it off since this box is games only. So SoftTH should be good performance if not running Aero

If you use SoftTH does that reduce performance?

It's similar to my experience with the GTX 580 with a 5Ghz CPU, what I find is the heaviest graphical options from DCS are still really difficult for the modern graphics card. DCS Shadows, Water, and TSSAA are all very taxing. On my 580 I run Water and Shadows on the lowest setting. TSSAA I have off. HDR I have off (I use dynamic contrast on my monitor instead). I have not done any increases to visibility in graphics.lua. But my resolution is higher 2560x1600. And my frame rates are similar to the fourth test (between 30 and 60). I think the card will do ok for me when I tweak the settings (although it would be nice to finally have a card we could just set on max settings!)

That's great news! At least you can play now and might get better luck with drivers later. I've been reading other forums trying to make the decision and I posted about DCS, someone is running it no problems and gets 40% improvement etc: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1038263725&posted=1#post1038263725 So I think I'm pretty much sold :) I asked which drivers they used, waiting for response

I've never heard someone say smooth and cliffs of Dover in the same sentence, it says something of the power of this card! DCS seems to be the only game I've heard of not working too

So did I because ATI advertise the feature as if it already exist

Yes it's promising. Problem is though people have been waiting for the hubs a long time. Last I heard the ETA was about June 2012. I'll be sticking with Displayport monitors it's more flexible for the future and less issues than using adapters.

That's great about the 4th screen. I might find a small one to put teamspeak on.

King of Eyefinity, Nvidia can't do multi monitor unless you want to take the risky stuttery multi-GPU route. Also the 1.5gb VRAM chokes when I add a second screen. That is why this NVidia fan is considering leaving Nvidia for this card. But so far I've only seen good results for mainstream games, very bad performance reports on x-plane 10, not working on DCS, no word on Rise of Flight yet. The next NVidia is expected to be about 6-9 months away, otherwise I would consider a GTX680 4GB, and use SoftTH.

Its pretty disgusting, cards are with customers and still no decent driver. But what can you do, NVidia can't match this performance or eyefinity features, now AMD are the new kings. I hope they are working weekends to get drivers out..