Cybergooch
Geek Trainee
Okay, here's my strange situation. I know it's not very common, but I'm posting here anyway in hopes someone else may have run into this or knows what to do about it.
For the last few years, I've been using a 3-monitor setup both at home and at work. In the past, I did this by having the main AGP card driving the main monitor and the right monitor, and using an old nvidia mx-4000 in a PCI slot to drive the 3rd, left monitor. So far so good.
Then came Windows Vista. In my new system, I am using an 8800 GTS as my main card, but I have had no luck in finding Vista drivers for the mx 4000. I decided to try a new card for my secondary card since my motherboard has 2 PCI-e 16 slots. Note that I am NOT trying to do the SLI thing here, I just want to use multiple gfx cards.
AT first, everything was working fine with a Geforce 6200 as the second card. I got the drivers going for each card and all was well. Until I tried running 3D apps that need openGL. (Cinema 4D and Maya to be specific.) With both cards working, my 3D apps will not run. They quit almost immediately with an error.
The thing is, if I disable the second card by unchecking the "Expand my desktop onto this display" setting, the 3D apps run fine. I am guessing that since both of these cards have openGL that there may be a conflict here.
So what I'm wondering is, can the Geforce 6200 be "dumbed down" so that it's openGL is not used? All I need is a very simple card for the 3rd monitor display, nothing fancy.
Any help appreciated!
-E
For the last few years, I've been using a 3-monitor setup both at home and at work. In the past, I did this by having the main AGP card driving the main monitor and the right monitor, and using an old nvidia mx-4000 in a PCI slot to drive the 3rd, left monitor. So far so good.
Then came Windows Vista. In my new system, I am using an 8800 GTS as my main card, but I have had no luck in finding Vista drivers for the mx 4000. I decided to try a new card for my secondary card since my motherboard has 2 PCI-e 16 slots. Note that I am NOT trying to do the SLI thing here, I just want to use multiple gfx cards.
AT first, everything was working fine with a Geforce 6200 as the second card. I got the drivers going for each card and all was well. Until I tried running 3D apps that need openGL. (Cinema 4D and Maya to be specific.) With both cards working, my 3D apps will not run. They quit almost immediately with an error.
The thing is, if I disable the second card by unchecking the "Expand my desktop onto this display" setting, the 3D apps run fine. I am guessing that since both of these cards have openGL that there may be a conflict here.
So what I'm wondering is, can the Geforce 6200 be "dumbed down" so that it's openGL is not used? All I need is a very simple card for the 3rd monitor display, nothing fancy.
Any help appreciated!
-E
