AMD combines screens with different resolutions with Eyefinity update

AMD comes with an update to Eyefinity that adds support for displays with different resolutions to the technology. Users can thus create a set-up where they can choose how Eyefinity combines the different resolutions.

The new Eyefinity is part of Catalyst 14.6. The multi-monitor setup gains two new modes in addition to the existing Fill mode, with each monitor showing the full image: Fit and Expand. With Fit, Eyefinity creates a rectangle where no image is shown at the top of the screen with the highest resolution. With Expand, Eyefinity creates a virtual rectangle, where the image of the monitor with the highest resolution serves as the basis and extends, as it were, over the screens with lower resolutions. In addition, AMD has tried to simplify the set-up of Eyefinity groups, partly thanks to adjustments to the interface.

Catalyst 14.6 further promises performance improvements when running Tuesday’s Watch Dogs, increasing to 28 percent on a Radeon R9 290X at a resolution of 2560×1600 pixels. Additionally, the update brings performance improvements to Murdered: Soul Suspect, which is due out next week. Nvidia also came with a driver update for, among other things, improvements under Watch Dogs.

The update also makes Mantle suitable for Enduro configurations, Anandtech writes. Enduro is AMD’s technique for quickly switching between the igp of apus and the video card. AMD has also added more management capabilities for setting video colors and color depth, expanded support for the jpeg decoder, and with version 14.6 of its driver discontinued support for Windows 8, although this will have little practical effect. AMD would make the driver update available on Tuesday, but at the time of writing that is not yet the case.