nVidia Card + ATi Card?

[Overslop]

I have an unusual problem. I prefer nVidia cards, simply due to the Control Panel software, but with my HDTV, they can't produce a picture at 640x480 resolution without causing massive screen tearing. For some reason, this is the case with every nVidia card I have used (with numerous different driver sets), and not the case with every ATi card I have used.

Now, you may wonder why the heck I want to play games at 640x480, but I enjoy playing old games sometimes. They are almost always that resolution, and unless they have some sort of update mod, then you are stuck there.

As far as I know, there is no way around this issue by using an nVidia card. So I was wondering if I could keep my nVidia card as my main GPU, and get a cheap ATi just for use with these games. So I would have the nVidia one as my main, but I could switch to the ATi withing Windows and back whever I wanted to.

Can this be done, and if so, would it potentially cause driver conflicts?

 

[markiejt]

think you will struggle

 

[Jokester]

I have a feeling this isn't possible in Vista if I remember correctly.

 

[reflux]

You can't run two graphics cards from different manufacturers on Vista, but you can in XP and Windows 7.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

^ Thats right, only possible in XP or WIn 7.

 

[Overslop]

OK, thanks guys.

Guess I will have to put the retro games on hold until Windows 7 then.

 

[Happy]

How come you can't in Vista then, what changed?

 

[Trunks9486]

I think its the driver model

 

[Happy]

That's why I was confused since Windows 7 is very similar to Vista including the driver model iirc.