Can I use an AGP nVidia card and a PCI ATI AIW in the same PC?

[Chumster]

I'm trying to setup a TV/VCD/etc PC for my living room. I currently have an AGP GF2 MX but would like to add my older PCI Card (ATI AIW Rage 128 Pro) because it has tuner capabilities. Is this going to cause a problem? I seem to recall that the two driver sets don't like each other very much.

Any help would be appreciated. TIA

Chum

 

[bassoprofundo]

They can work at the same time, but in order to use the AIW features of the ATI card, it has to be set as the primary adapter (in BIOS and Windows). This means, of course, that anything that uses Direct3d, OpenGL, etc. would play on the ATI card rather than the faster NVidia card (I'm assuming you want the NVidia card to stay in for faster 3d.) You'd have to reboot and switch the BIOS everytime you wanted to use the NVidia card as the primary.

 

[Chumster]

bass: Thanks for the reply

Ugh, guess I could just pick up an additional tuner card..