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So I want to have my cake and eat it too. I have 2 cards in SLI (8800 gt's) and I still wanted to be able to run a secondary monitor. I read that you could install a cheap pci graphics card to do this for you without a problem.
The post recommended getting an ati so the drivers wouldnt have any problems... but being the NVIDIA fanboy I am, I opted for a cheap 6200 OC (its so friggin tiny and has a piece of flat metal for a heatsink...lol, but anyway) I got it working by installing the drives dissabling the card, setting up my 2 8800's in sli, re-enabling the 6200 and then setting up my monitors. This step is needed because the sli option dissapears with more than 2 graphics cards.
Everything works flawlessly EXCEPT my older opengl games (halflife series mostly).
I can run it in a smaller resolution, I can run it windowed so its only in the primary screen, but no matter what I try, I only get like 8 FPS in the menu. If I dissable the screens (I can keep the card enabled) everything jumps back to its normal 100 fps cap.
I was told possible options to fix this was to set gpu excelleration to SINGLE monitor... tried that...and the other two settings as well without it fully working.
Does anyone have any advice short of using direct3d (that has a 60 fps cap ew.) that would allow me to play these old games without dissabling the monitors every time?
The post recommended getting an ati so the drivers wouldnt have any problems... but being the NVIDIA fanboy I am, I opted for a cheap 6200 OC (its so friggin tiny and has a piece of flat metal for a heatsink...lol, but anyway) I got it working by installing the drives dissabling the card, setting up my 2 8800's in sli, re-enabling the 6200 and then setting up my monitors. This step is needed because the sli option dissapears with more than 2 graphics cards.
Everything works flawlessly EXCEPT my older opengl games (halflife series mostly).
I can run it in a smaller resolution, I can run it windowed so its only in the primary screen, but no matter what I try, I only get like 8 FPS in the menu. If I dissable the screens (I can keep the card enabled) everything jumps back to its normal 100 fps cap.
I was told possible options to fix this was to set gpu excelleration to SINGLE monitor... tried that...and the other two settings as well without it fully working.
Does anyone have any advice short of using direct3d (that has a 60 fps cap ew.) that would allow me to play these old games without dissabling the monitors every time?