I had a lot of pain with the Vista x64 drivers for the nVidia 8800 GTX when I first got mine, like 6 months ago, but they have been very stable for a while now.
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I had a lot of pain with the Vista x64 drivers for the nVidia 8800 GTX when I first got mine, like 6 months ago, but they have been very stable for a while now.
/cartman voice GOOGLE FIGHT! Hey Everyone its a GOOGLE FIGHT!
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Originally Posted by 'Stabface',index.php?page=Thread&postID=38714#post 38714
Okay... for those of you misunderstanding or saying I am talking out my ass (yet apparently not reading my original post) I will restate it
Vista does NOT support two video cards if those video cards CAN NOT BE RUN FROM THE SAME DRIVER. So all those of you saying you are running TWO VIDEO CARDS, either admit they are the SAME chip set (i.e. both GeForce or both ATI) or please tell us how you accomplished this.
You can run two video cards just fine if both cards use the same set of drivers.
I just was posting this to save people the problems I had last night and am told I am talking out my ass. It's getting to the point it's not even worth sharing information here anymore.
As to why I purchased an ATI video card, I did not. I have five of these things laying around at work that run off a PCI (not express) slot and as I only have either a PCI or PCI-e x1 slot available on my motherboard I thought I would give it a try.
My google fight!
dogs > cats
http://googlefight.com/index.php?lan...rd2=loves+cats
ati > nvidia
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php...2=nvidia+rules
GOOGLE FIGHT!!
My apologies, The IT Monkey. My reply "you're talking out your ass" was directed at Ughmahedhurtz, not you.
Now, that being said. On the issue of multiple video cards with *different* chipsets under Vista, for example an ATI and an NVidia card: Yes it is possible to get them working. I've done it myself. You will simply need to use the XP drivers, and not the Vista drivers. The new Vista driver model (WDDM) removed support for loading multiple display drivers.
Doing so will disable some things from working (the Aero features for the UI, Windows Media Center, are the 2 biggest). But it DOES work.
1st hit on google for "Vista multi-monitor support", straight from Microsoft :
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device...imonVista.mspx
No, I apologize. I thought you were aiming that at me. I don't do well with being told I have an ass for a mouth before my second cup of coffee, yet I have terrible habit of using that orifice to communicate before my second cup of coffee... that's why I never married.
It's funny how the same site can have two different answers... When I google'd it last night I found, on microsoft's site, a post saying they DON'T support it at all. Even the link you provided stated that and then states that it CAN be done but no instructions on HOW.
I think for my needs I am just going to find the BEST GeForce card that will fit in a PCI slot I can. It only needs to run two WoWs so I remain hopeful.
It does give you the solution, install the XP version of your video device drivers.
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If multiple graphics adapters are present in a system, all of them must use the same WDDM driver. If there are two graphics adapters with WDDM drivers from two different manufacturers, then Windows will disable one of them. The VGA adapter will be enabled, and the second device will be disabled.
Notice that XPDM drivers still support heterogeneous multi-adapter as they did in Windows XP. A user who has such a configuration working fine in Windows XP will encounter a problem when upgrading to Windows Vista. An external monitor connected to one of the graphics adapters will have no video signal, because it is disabled. An error message will appear on system boot, as described later in this article.
The solution for this problem could be as follows:
•A user could force the installation of a XPDM driver for each of these devices, and therefore get heterogeneous multi-adapter multi-monitor to work as in Windows XP.
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So, uninstall your existing video driver and install the XP version. You will probably need to turn off UAC, and possibly use the device manager to install the driver instead of the installer package, but it's not hard.
I just wish Microsoft would fix that whole performance hit you get with using the dual monitors that aren't set to horizontal. (Using dual-monitors off one 8800 GT and WoW runs between 25-120 fps, which is really random).
Just wanted to throw my 2c in here. I've been experimenting with various setups with my 5 boxing over the past few weeks using Vista64 and have reached a few conclusions in regards to getting the best FPS.
- Running 2 monitors wokred MUCH better with just the one 8800gtx. I tired adding a spare 8800GT to run the 2nd monitor and it halved my main widows FPS.
- I'm running all 5 WoW from the same directory/exe file BUT on a seperate HDD to Windows. Not so much a FPS issue, but its smoother and they all load much faster.
- Simple, but make sure sound is diabled on all but 1 of the WoWs. Vista hada a little fit when I left one of the alts sound on.
With this setup I get 60+FPS on my main window (1680x1050) with everything maxed out and have the other 4 capped at 15fps.
Hope this might have helped someone.
ATI -- XP vs VIstaQuote:
Originally Posted by 'pinotnoir',index.php?page=Thread&postID=38725#pos t38725
http://googlefight.com/index.php?lan...r+known+issues
Nvidia -- XP vs Vista
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php...r+known+issues
Cage Match -- Vista
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php...r+known+issues
... bummer... and I'm a hardcore nvidia person... but that doesn't take in marketshare...