two cards

[DIRTsquirt]

Is it possible to have 2 video cards in you computer at once. and switch between them.
I am extremely disappointed in the Radeon 8500 with the latest drivers (5.13.1.6037). It halts playing Serious Sam, Tribes 1 the entire walls or floors will go black.
My old geforce 2 gts 32 mb card, Plays These games 3 times a better.
I am extremely displeased that I bought this card. If anyone can tell me how to run both and switch between them I would be grateful.
I really like the clarity in 2d of the Radeon card. It blows my old geforce away in that regard only.

I am suprised I havent heard any of this. Stuff on this forum b4. Are owners of radeons such fanboys that they wont warn folk of what they
might be gettin into.

NEway if someone could point me in the right direction or explain to me how to run multiple video cards I would be grateful :Q

 

[Mavrick007]

You can run your radeon 8500 and a pci vid card at the same time but I believe getting the drivers to work correctly when in the same machine will probably give you a problem. Is your GF2 Gts a pci card??

 

[DIRTsquirt]

DOH! That thought didnt even cross my mind.. My gts is agp. so I am FOOKED!
I guess my options are leave it in a hope that they come up with some drivers that work. (and enjoy being able to read text at high res. without straining)
or reinstall the geforce and save my shickles for a GF4 4400

 

[Mavrick007]

Sorry to hear that dude. I wouldn't give up on the 8500 totally though. If the GTS was in your machine before and you didn't do a clean install or delete lines out of the registry, then I would think about that and do a clean install if you can. The new drivers out on rage3d.com should help some of your stability issues. I would get the 8500 cause of the price and hardware that is on the card. It's not bad once you get it working right.

 

[tenoc]

Try the alternate drivers at ATI's site (6014) and/or the betas at rage3d.com (6043).

Don't forget to uninstall the old drivers first.

BTW, did you flush out the NVidia drivers before installing the R8500? regcleaner from
rage3d will do that if you didn't.

Bits of old drivers from a previous install can totally cludge up a new one.

Bonne chance!