With nVidias new non-unified drivers

[Lonyo]

I currently have 2x 17" monitors hooked up to a 7800GT.
I'm thinking of getting a 20" widescreen, 8800GTS and a secondary slow/low power graphics card (6200/7300 etc).

But since nVidia have moved away from unified drivers, will this still work? Is it going to be possible to run 2 cards from different series and have them play nicely? (Windows XP).
158.22 is the 8800 driver, while the 7xxx and 6xxx cards are on 93.71


Anyone got any experience with newer drivers and mixed gen cards?

 

[Bateluer]

Thats a good question. I'd be interested in hearing people's experiences.

Seems like it might a possibility for the older card to have to run standard VGA drivers or possibly some modded drivers?

 

[TheRyuu]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
I currently have 2x 17" monitors hooked up to a 7800GT.
I'm thinking of getting a 20" widescreen, 8800GTS and a secondary slow/low power graphics card (6200/7300 etc).

But since nVidia have moved away from unified drivers, will this still work? Is it going to be possible to run 2 cards from different series and have them play nicely? (Windows XP).
158.22 is the 8800 driver, while the 7xxx and 6xxx cards are on 93.71


Anyone got any experience with newer drivers and mixed gen cards?

This will run 'em all.

Modified nv4_disp.inf to support 6-7 series owners as well as 8 series (which was already there). There is no problem running the older cards on the newer drivers (why nvidia doesn't do it, no idea).

Plus, it also has the XTreme-G IQ/Performance tweaks so kill 2 birds with one stone .

Edit:
Plus your rig link doesn't work.

 

[SunnyD]

Per wizboy... the drivers are still "unified". The actual driver has all of the appropriate code in it to handle all supported cards back to I think the GeForce 2 series, maybe three. NVIDIA just hacks the INF file apart to keep you from using the driver.

I'm using the 8800 driver for Vista on my laptop with a 7950GTX.

 

[aka1nas]

In XP you should be fine. Vista is alittle different because you need to run all the cards off the same WDDM driver if you want to use Aero Glass and other features. If wizboy11's method works and all you need to get G80s and G70s to coexist is to add the .inf entrys then you should be ok in Vista as well.