Do ATi / nVidia Drivers Play Nicely?

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TheSpook

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Background: I am currently running an AGP 9800Pro and two PCI 9250s. However, the 9800Pro is dying out ("VPU Recovery Error"s), so I'm thinking about throwing a new AGP card into the system.

Question: If I get a nVidia card, will the Nforce drivers play nicely with my Catalysts? Has anyone run both brands of cards in the same computers? Is it hard to do?

Thanks in advance :).
 
errors doesn't mean the card is dying, it's a driver or software issue, and nVidia drivers do not match with ATI hardware or vice versa.
 
ive run a 9200se AGP and a 6800GS PCI-E in my asrock combo board

they were doing tri monitors and it worked ok except for when I would use my tvtuner and tried to move it on to another monitor... it would say something about no video in wintv and id have to restart it with the entire window in one monitor or the other
 
Cereal Killer said:
errors doesn't mean the card is dying, it's a driver or software issue, and nVidia drivers do not match with ATI hardware or vice versa.
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I don't know . . . I've always heard of VPU Recovery Errors being caused by the card being fried a bit. I was running it in a machine with a terrible power supply for a while . . . unstable rails and all. It's had errors for the last eightteen or so versions of the Cats . . .

(But I'm not really sure - input welcome!)

Edit: Looking at something like this , but I'll buy ATi for slightly more money if it'll prevent driver issues.
 
You should be fine driver wise a saw an article some where that somebody ran ATI and Nvidia on a SLi board to drive four monitors just something about one couldnt do 3D. Something like the secondary card or what every one loaded second couldnt do 3D. I dont remember though but I know it worked it was just quirky.
 
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