New Mac Pro, Creating EyeFinity display groups in Bootcamp.

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New Mac Pro, Creating EyeFinity display groups in Bootcamp.

I've seen it done on a youtube video with 6 screens on crysis,

Shown here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmlsePKH6AY

Yet I can't seem to find any setting in the FirePro Control center, that allows me to create a display group.

Crossfire is enabled and works fine, but seemingly on one screen. I'm not even sure if that's working as I have little experience with AMD AGPs... when I would "Enable SLi for maximum performance" on Nvidia cards, it would disable my other displays, and only show one SLid display... or I could span the displays, with Sli and show one big 3 screen display.

On this setup, when I turn crossfire on, it doesnt seem to change anything, all 3 screens remain on... I'm hoping it's smart enough to pump all the power to the active games display, but I can't really tell.

But that's only a single display, if, I want to play WoW on a spanned display across 3 monitors like I did with my old nVidia setup...

The whole "Eyefinity" section of the Control Center seems not to exist.

I'm wondering, do I need to install Catalyst instead of FirePro control center?

Will that mess up my drivers?

This guy doesn't really get into how he did it.

Any thoughts Mac'les?

Mac Pro (Late 2013), Windows 8, Bootcamp

Posted on Feb 25, 2014 9:43 AM

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Feb 25, 2014 10:30 AM in response to portwolf

With two GPUs standard in every Mac Pro configuration, there’s obviously OS support for the configuration. Under Windows, that amounts to basic CrossFire X support. Apple’s Boot Camp drivers ship with CFX support, and you can download the latest Catalyst drivers directly from AMD and enable CFX under Windows as well. I did the latter and found that despite the option being there I couldn’t actually disable CrossFire X under Windows. Disabling CFX would drop power consumption, but I didn't always see a corresponding decrease in performance.

from:

http://anandtech.com/show/7603/mac-pro-review-late-2013/9

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portwolf Author

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Feb 25, 2014 10:48 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

This really didn't answer, or even address my question.

I'm talking about EyeFinity display groups, which have already been shown to work.

Crossfire works fine, right out of the box, with Bootcamp.

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Feb 25, 2014 10:51 AM in response to portwolf

I'm wondering, do I need to install Catalyst instead of FirePro control center?

Will that mess up my drivers?

according to anand:

you can download the latest Catalyst drivers directly from AMD

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portwolf Author

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Feb 25, 2014 11:00 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

And they'll replace the "FirePro" drivers, without an issue?

Thanks.

Sorry for being bitchy 🙂

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turbostar

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Feb 25, 2014 2:38 PM in response to portwolf

You need to change settings to open the advanced menu, looks like you're still on simple

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portwolf Author

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Feb 25, 2014 2:49 PM in response to turbostar

I tried that, still don't see EyeFinity settings, do you see them in yours?

Is it maybe because I'm using DVI monitors??

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turbostar

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Feb 25, 2014 3:37 PM in response to portwolf

I have all the tabs in mine, running ATDs myself

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portwolf Author

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Feb 25, 2014 4:35 PM in response to turbostar

ATDs?

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portwolf Author

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Feb 25, 2014 4:36 PM in response to turbostar

ah I'm hoping that's not my issue, but I don't think it is.

Are you running the Catalyst control panel, or the FirePro drivers that came right of boot camp?

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turbostar

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Feb 25, 2014 5:05 PM in response to portwolf

The ATI package out of boot camp. I've held off manually updating since I don't think the drivers were ready - sometimes it prompts me for 79xx drivers other times R9 2xx, etc. I figure in a month or so I would see Dxxx.

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