Photoshop Users With ATI Video Cards - Catalyst 11.9 Release Seems Good

I've been using Photoshop all day with the Catalyst 11.9 display drivers, released yesterday by AMD. My system is Windows 7 x64 and I have a VisionTek Radeon HD 5670 card with 1 GB, and Photoshop CS5 is set to Use OpenGL Drawing in Advanced mode.
Their version 11.8 release seemed buggy, so I had stayed with 11.7 until last night, when I upgraded to 11.9. I did nothing special to install the prior version; I just ran the 11.9 installer.
So far, I've had zero problems processing images in Photoshop today. My display has been smooth and quick, with no crashes or faults.
-Noel

The Catalyst version number is a package number that's basically year.month of release.
Looking in the Catalyst Control Center in the Information section, the detailed version info for Catalyst 11.9 is the following:
-Noel

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2 nVidia cards doesn't buy you any performance increases. They don't talk to each other to improve performance in Mac OSX. Multiple cards is mostly for supporting multiple displays. How many displays do you have?
Apple has some initial performance benchmarks:
http://www.apple.com/macpro/features/graphics.html
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Is that right, ppl ?
I just want get some advices from you
I'm going to buy a new video card : ATI R9600 Pro
and I'm using MSI i865PE NEO2 Mother board.
So , Any problems will happend ??? or that's allright ?
plz give me some advices
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Never the less it might be a good starting point for someone to get acceleration running. This is what I did:
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copied [MAC10.10.2]/System/Library/Extensions/AMD* ----> [MAC10.10.3]/System/Library/Extensions/AMD*
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yeah, short term test deems keeping both cards in.
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It's not really Adobe's fault.
The simple fact is that most of the software design that supports display processing is still mired in the days where a computer had one monitor. Making things worse is the fact that the GPU makers don't really have any incentive to make their hardware/software work in a system with other GPU makers' hardware. In a selfish sense, quite the opposite. Who's at fault when your ATI and nVidia cards don't work together?
Macs have just as many problems as PCs - possibly more, since Mac users don't have the luxury of mixing and matching driver versions.
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-Noel

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naquad wrote:
masteryod wrote:Multi-monitor setup will be easier on one card.
4 monitors.Not 2.
Hmm right but look at "eyefinity" and "sapphire flex" radeon cards. Interesting, it should even work on open source drivers wow!
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Gusar wrote:Your 6750 supports four displays!! You don't need the other card. You don't even need Xinerama, xrandr will do the trick.
According to amd.com 6750 chip supports up to five displays, problem is: you need physical outputs build into your card and most of them are sold with only three outputs. I don't know if there is Y-splitter/dual-adapter possibility though.
Gusar wrote:Edit: Wow, masteryod just had the same idea. Is that spooky, or what?
Haha indeed, I started to write answer before you post yours
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Genius needs to help! problems with my video card and system

Hey guys! I'm going to post my specs first so that you get a good idea of what I'm running on:
MSI Neo2 LS 865PE.....MAT=Slow
Pentium4 2.4C.....FSB=233=2.8C hyperthreading enabled ~>1.55V
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I returned the 3 sticks of Ram and replaced them with the Corsair. Put my new Radeon 9700 in, formatted my hard drive....and within 24 hours, my system locked up 3 times, rebooted itself 5 times, and gave me the same BSOD as mentioned above with the same long message.
I didn't change anything except for the memory and the video card. I've been wanting to overclock, (thats why i bought the faster memory ) but I'm not sure what to do at this point.
I have my FSB at 233 but I'm scared to go any higher because of previous system instability at stock speeds. My RAM was running on 400 and MAT=Turbo with the most relaxed timings at 3,4,4,8.
I've given myself hours of sleepless nights formatting when my system wouldnt boot into windows; overclocking....etc. I NEED HELP. PLEASE. PLEASE. Anything could work at this point.
I'm trying to get more info on how to run my system at a 5:4 ratio, also.
If anyone has problems like me or knows what could be the problem with my system, please reply to this post, it would help me a lot. I've been trying to fix these problems for a few months now so anything is greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot to you guys that responded. I brought my computer home this past holiday and I want to let you know where I stand as of now. I guess this thread is like my blog for my computer. I want to clear some things before my first post makes everyone confused.
1- I have only 2 sticks of memory in my system: the Corsair PC3700 TwinX 512x2
I returned the 3 KingMax I bought, and still keep my old stick just in case.
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3- My computer will refuse to boot if memory speeds are set at anything below 400. SO....if I want to use a 5:4 ratio and have to set my memory speeds to "333" in BIOS, my system refuses to boot.
4- This morning, I did manage to overclock my FSB to 250. Specs are as follow:
Memory Timing @3,4,4,8,4.....speed set at "AUTO".....MAT at "SLOW"
MY 2.4C's FSB was raised to 250 = 3.0gig
AGP/PCI frequency: 67.xx/3x.xx (cant go any lower)
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Memory voltage: 2.75
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Everything was fine for the whole day until I heard something click in my computer around midnight, and then seconds later, my computer froze and made a continuous beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. (you can imagine)
This "click" and system crash has been plaguing me for months now. I dont know whay it happens. I was just using AIM when I heard the click and my heart stopped.
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A FSB of 250 is good enough for me, that's what I've been waiting 6 months for. If anyone knows how to set other ratios to achieve a FSB of 250+, please let me know, but as I said, my memory won't boot if its set at "333"

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