Feasibility of using old graphics cards in Vista for dual-screen

[vss1980]

Hi guys,

I suspect this question is being very hopeful ...

Old (and some not so old) grahics cards which have no native drivers in Vista are stuck to using a 'Standard VGA' type driver. From what I have seen I suspect it's much like that of XP and relies heavily on the CPU to do the graphics processing - I doubt there is any 'optimisation'.

Does anyone know, however, if this supports the use of dual screen? I.e. can a card using this driver support dual-screen use?

Secondly, Vista has drivers for older cards like the original Geforce's and Radeon 8/9000 series already integrated into the driver cache. How full featured are these? I.e. does TV-out work, is there OpenGL support (something MS drivers 'lack' normally), etc.?

 

[VirtualLarry]

To do multi-mon in Vista, all video cards in the machine have to use the same driver. This is different than XP, where different cards could use different drivers, and still have them work together in multi-mon.

So I'm guessing that the answer to your first question is no, unless you perhaps ran every display as "Standard VGA", which would likely get annoying.