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ATi cards with nForce boards

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Limp Gawd
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Small inquiry, I need some feedback on this. Since the nForce drivers are packaged with Detonator/ForceWare, am I at a risk of even the slightest conflict, using an nForce board while having an ATi card with the latest Catalysts? This is the deciding factor for the purchase of Shuttle's A64 SFF barebones PC.
 
You aren´t forced to install these forceware. In fact if you don´t got nVidia video cards they don´t install at all.
 
So if the motherboard chipset does not contain video acceleration, absolutely no part of the ForceWare video drivers are installed? I know this is probably logical, but seeing as how they are packaged together, it helps to be sure.
 
Actually, only the newest 3.13 version of the nForce drivers has the ForceWare video drivers (in this case, version 52.16). Version 2.45 has neither Detonator nor ForceWare drivers at all whatsoever.

In addition, the ForceWare drivers that are bundled with the version 3.13 of the nForce driver kit will only install if you have a graphics card based on the GeForce series chipset - and there's no way at all whatsoever to avoid that installation. And if you have a graphics card that uses another company's chipset, such as the ATi Radeon series, then the ForceWare drivers will not install at all.

By the way, if you have a GeForce-based card, and you're using the 3.13 nForce driver kit, you'll have to uninstall the 52.16 ForceWare drivers through the Windows Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs feature before you install the newer, less buggy 53.03 ForceWare drivers. I don't recommend installing an older Detonator driver version on a system that's running on the version 3.13 nForce drivers - if you must, you'll have to use version 2.45 of the nForce driver kit.
 
Originally posted by E4g1e
Actually, only the newest 3.13 version of the nForce drivers has the ForceWare video drivers (in this case, version 52.16). Version 2.45 has neither Detonator nor ForceWare drivers at all whatsoever.

In addition, the ForceWare drivers that are bundled with the version 3.13 of the nForce driver kit will only install if you have a graphics card based on the GeForce series chipset - and there's no way at all whatsoever to avoid that installation. And if you have a graphics card that uses another company's chipset, such as the ATi Radeon series, then the ForceWare drivers will not install at all.

By the way, if you have a GeForce-based card, and you're using the 3.13 nForce driver kit, you'll have to uninstall the 52.16 ForceWare drivers through the Windows Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs feature before you install the newer, less buggy 53.03 ForceWare drivers. I don't recommend installing an older Detonator driver version on a system that's running on the version 3.13 nForce drivers - if you must, you'll have to use version 2.45 of the nForce driver kit.

Well in previous releases you could just open the driver archive in winzip or winrar and delte the Geforce drivers. Worked fine for me.
 
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