Primary Video Card Problem

[JMerit]

Alright, about 3 months ago I set up a Dual Display on my PC, using my Nvidia Geforce FX5500 and an S3 ViRGE DX/GX.

Everything worked out great, everything working properly.

This morning, I decided to start playing City of Heroes again, so I reinstalled it, and tried to play, Error message. So I updated my driver, which should have solved the problem.

And it did, but now there's a new problem. In order for my Dual Display to work, in my BIOS, it has to start up from the PCI instead of the AGP. I've always had it this way.

But now, instead of what it did before, which was use the PCI as the default and my AGP to run games, it tries to run things off of the PCI, which won't work for anything graphically oriented.

Is there a way to change my primary Video Card to read the AGP card without changing the initial BIOS read of the PCI?

 

[Sniper]

there should be the option to use the AGP card within the game menu, it should be in the game "video settings" menu.

let me know how it goes.

 

[JMerit]

Problem is that I can't open the games. They won't load properly on the other card.

Is there a way to get to the configs without having to load up the games?

 

[Sniper]

look where the game is installed, maybe there is a settings.exe or a similar file which should allow you to select the AGP card.

I've never setup a dual display so not sure if you can setup the PCI card as second output to the monitor, though I would think you can! have you got the latest drivers for both cards?

The only other thing I can think if is, you can get a dual output video card.

 

[banished]

Stumbled across this forum and post while doin some searching for a problem for a new computer. Anyway I thought I would lend some of my wisdom.

I have a three monitor system, one nvidia and one geromino 2000 (dual monitor card). What I found with my three monitor system that I was drawing too much current from my system and eventually I fried my motherboard over the course of a little over a year. I had alot of signs that it was coming, such as what you are now experiencing. I hope that this isn't it.

Good luck :)