mjdbb1 Posted July 4, 2010 Posted July 4, 2010 Getting ready to upgrade a fairly new system from XP to 7. Currently I have a Radeon 4670 PCI-express as the main video card, as well as an older nvidia card in a regular PCI slot (because of a few older games that won't cooperate with PCI-e). Each card runs on its own monitor, and I just switch the primary (in display properties) when I run one of the older games. This whole setup runs fine. However, the nvidia card does not have any Win7 64bit drivers available, so I'm going to pick up a cheap PCI nvidia card that does (looking at the geforce 6000 series) which does have the driver support that I need. But before I go and buy it, I want to make sure, can this still be done in Windows 7? I've heard that now multiple video cards have to use the same driver, I don't know if that's true. There's no problem at all with this setup in XP. Any help would be appreciated!
Tripredacus Posted July 4, 2010 Posted July 4, 2010 Not sure about the real answer, but the whole "same driver" thing is for support purposes only. For example, I got a system to work with 4 different sound cards using 4 different drivers but it was not supported by Creative. So when I had a problem getting that to work in Vista, Creative couldn't help me, but I eventually figured it out.
puntoMX Posted July 7, 2010 Posted July 7, 2010 What PCI video card are we talking at the moment? 5200FX or 440MX or so? What games would not work? I can't seem to understand why it would work on PCI and not on a PCI-E video card.
mjdbb1 Posted July 20, 2010 Author Posted July 20, 2010 (edited) What PCI video card are we talking at the moment? 5200FX or 440MX or so? What games would not work? I can't seem to understand why it would work on PCI and not on a PCI-E video card.Actually, I did some further research...one of the old games is Star Wars Racer. The last card I used it on was a Radeon 9600xt AGP, which worked fine. Seemed like newer PCI express cards can't run the game. I spoke to someone about this, and it seems that it's actually caused by the card's inability to handle 16-bit DirectX 6 calls. I don't know if there's any kind of workaround for this, or a 'wrapper' that might work...I don't know enough about graphics and DirectX. (Maybe this could be a new topic) Edited July 20, 2010 by mjdbb1
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