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11-30-2007, 09:56 PM
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Re: Vista and 3+ displays. FYI type post
if you are right that vista can't use video cards from different manufacturers, this is a really, really, bad flaw in vista.
i quite happily ran an AGP ATI card, and a maxtor PCI card and a nVIDIA PCI video card in xp without any troubles. 
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12-01-2007, 12:11 AM
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Re: Vista and 3+ displays. FYI type post
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samiam made a similar post quite a while ago and drew the same conclusion. i agree its a pretty crappy downgrade. [/ QUOTE ] Apparently if you use legacy drivers in vista it will allow multiple drivers to coexist. The downside is all the graphics drivers have to be legacy. I'm not sure if this means that XP drivers will work, or that you need vista drivers that use the legacy windows video display stack.
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12-01-2007, 10:45 AM
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Re: Vista and 3+ displays. FYI type post
based on my experience:
one pci-e + one pci card from the same vendor = very slow performance two pci-e cards from diff vendors run with xp drivers, but no aero best/only solution for fully functional vista is to replace the motherboard with a motherboard that has two pci-e slots, and install two pci-e cards from the same vendor.
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#5
12-01-2007, 03:13 PM
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Re: Vista and 3+ displays. FYI type post
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based on my experience: one pci-e + one pci card from the same vendor = very slow performance [/ QUOTE ] I hope this was just your particular instance... I didnt see anyone else mention any slowing down when I was trawling around.
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12-01-2007, 07:31 PM
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Re: Vista and 3+ displays. FYI type post
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[ QUOTE ] based on my experience: one pci-e + one pci card from the same vendor = very slow performance [/ QUOTE ] I hope this was just your particular instance... I didnt see anyone else mention any slowing down when I was trawling around. [/ QUOTE ] if you fire up the pc after installing the card and everything seems to be fine, make sure you're seeing the aero visual enhancements. if you're not, try to get the aero theme to load and see if everything is still running smoothly. if the computer runs slowly with aero enabled, you of course have the option of disabling aero. with aero disabled, you'll probably be fine. but i like aero, and the only way for me to get the full vista experience was to install two pci-e cards (on a board with two slots obv).
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