On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 19:55:24 Craig said.

you might also want to install some of these:

glx-alternative-fglrx - allows the selection of FGLRX as GLX provider fglrx-atieventsd - events daemon for the non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver fglrx-control - control panel for the non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver libfglrx - non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver (runtime libraries) libfglrx-amdxvba1 - AMD XvBA (X-Video Bitstream Acceleration) backend for VA API , - proprietary libGL for the non-free ATI/AMD RadeonHD display driver libgl1-fglrx-glx-i386 - ATI/AMD binary OpenGL 32-bit libraries

Oops, any way many thanks for the advice to try the AMD closed src drivers, these seem to have cured the problem. glx-alternative-fglrx,libfglrx libgl1-fglrx-glx are all installed automagicly, I installed fglrx-atieventsd and fglrx-control by hand. I did not bother with amdxvbal1 as I NEVER do streaming video, data on the internet being way way way to expensive up my way to even consider it.

the gtx 560 is fine at 1449p for most things, but it's noticably sluggish in some games when there's a lot happening (which is a good way of getting killed due to video lag)

I found both the Radeon 7870 and the GTX 680 over kill for OpenRails, both these cards have so much processing power they require two threads from the main program to keep these GPU's busy and the development kit being used by OpenRails does not have this support. I found the Radeon 5870 would drive the 2560 X 1600 monitors with OR no problems.

problem with in game fonts

OpenRails has excatly the same problem, as far as I am concerned a font used in a game should be treated as just another in game texture required. Its not THAT difficult. Using the systems font generator in my opinion never looks right in game EXCEPT for system messages and such things as status lines. Just in case it may help if you happen to be looking for a new speaker set up to go with the 2560 x 1440 take a look at the Microlab Solo 8C High Fidelity Floor Stereo Speakers from PCCasegear, there only $179 but do not let that fool you, The sound of these is _____REALLY______ suppurb VERY clear and smooth, better even than Maudio offerings and at a fraction of the price and I am what one may call a highfi freek. The speakers are big being around 60cm high by around 22 wide, They sit quite nicely either side of my Dell 30" 2560 x 1600 monitor. Lindsay