Can I a Voodoo5 PCI and a Geforce MX at the same time?

[brian_riendeau]

I have two monitors laying around and have a really decent chance at getting a free MX card. Would these two cards work together and let me use two monitors in WinME and Win2000?

 

[odog]

i don't see why not....


OTOH i know some games don't support it...

 

[brian_riendeau]

Games do not support two monitors or games do not support have two video cards installed? I plan to use the MX for OpenGL programming and the Voodoo5 for games. The MX would be my default OpenGL driver and I could just put the OpenGL driver for the Voodoo5 in the game directories. And I would get a huge desktop space of course =)

 

[Goi]

AFAIK you can only run games on your primary monitor, except some games with specific multi-monitor support, like flight sims. Your secondary monitor will not be used for the game, but sometimes it may still be active, as in you can still have a web browser on it or something. Other times you might have to completely disable the secondary display within windows to even get the game to start properly. This is my experience with Win98se, but WinME/2000 might be different.

 

[Remedy]

Yeah i often wonder this question too. I have a Radeon 32mb and a v3 3000 pci and just to get some games to run on your primary display threw the properties is a waste of time so i think i will sell the v3 this month seeing that i really don't need it. It sucks cause i just payed for both of em and i really only need one!

 

[Fozzie]

Remember that AGP doesn't mean always Primary. You can pick which bus to use in the Bios, yes it would be a pain to switch busses just to play games.

 

[sandorski]

This is part thought part question, but wouldn't game setups recognize each videocard and allow you to choose? Similar to how a Voodoo2 and other vidcard could be chosen.

 

[SUOrangeman]

Sandorski-

NO!

BTW, Win2K lets you change primary displays on-the-fly, allowing you to override the BIOS setting.

-SUO

 

[sandorski]

That sucks!