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This one is so unstable for me. Ive had screens flick on and off, as well as have my cursor actually disappear during a dawn of war 2 game on the middle screen.

Im rolling back. Working profiles arnt worth this.

installed. seeing these grey verticle lines for the first time. so lovely. sooooooo happy with my purchase

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Anyone else have a problem with profiles where a monitor wont go to sleep completely? My samsung on HDMI would go black but you can clearly see the light still showing like its displaying a black screen or something.

I don't think HDMI supports the same system whereby the card cuts the video output, and then the screen detects this and turns into power save mode. So this is why the output goes black, but the screen doesn't turn off.

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I couldn't find a way to roll back, awesome.

It worked just fine before.

I found a solution on another forum where you use the DVI monitor to create the eyefinity group instead of the HDMI or DP. For some reason, that allows all the monitors to shut off in sleep.

But it was never broken before...

The way it sounds from several posts is that ATI Catalyst is practicing good old-fashioned stable/beta release cycles and using the wrong term.

Every month, a 'stable' driver is released.

Every month, an 'unstable' driver is released alongside it. It represents an engineering-grade prototype of what will go through QA testing & bugfixing in the coming weeks, alongside public testing, and be released the next month as stable. They call it a 'Hotfix', but it's a standalone graphics driver that isn't quite finished.

If they had released "10.1" and "10.2 alpha", I think there would be less confusion.

PS: Does "beta" still mean the same thing, after Google abused the term for so long?

Anyone else have a problem with profiles where a monitor wont go to sleep completely? My samsung on HDMI would go black but you can clearly see the light still showing like its displaying a black screen or something.

Oh, so it's a driver issue then? I have the same - display will be black, but still in full on-state.

[quote]Anyone else have a problem with profiles where a monitor wont go to sleep completely? My samsung on HDMI would go black but you can clearly see the light still showing like its displaying a black screen or something.

Oh, so it's a driver issue then? I have the same - display will be black, but still in full on-state.

Same.

What the heck? I have it in DVI. Apparently I have DVI + DVI + DP.

So that rules out the HDMI theory.

I'm definately liking these 10.1 drivers more and more. This latest hotfix has also resolved the missing cursor issue I was experiencing like others.

I notice in general too, the Displayport seems to be a little more stable. I've got the DP to VGA adaptor, and normally at every start up of Windows I would have to unplug / replug the adaptor to get it to detect the display properly again. Now, the majority of times it will actually boot up fine, so I only have to do it ocassionally. Great stuff. :D Now hopefully if I can get hold of an updated bios for my 5770's, this issue may be gone forever. Slowly getting there....

I have a problem with 10.1 and dual 5870 cards. Using 10.1, Windows and CCP cannot recognize the second 5870.

Uninstalling 10.1 and re-installing 9.12 works. Same for 9.12 Hotfix. Then update again to 10.1 to test if the problem repeats. It does. No second 5870 in 10.1

Driver 9.12 Hotfix for me.