February 13, 200422 yr A friend and I have been using similar PC components in our separate three-monitor homebuilt cockpits. Two monitors off one nVidia AGP Ti4200 card and the third off a PCI card.He recently upgraded his system and changed from nVidia to ATI. When his 9200 PCI card wouldn't co-operate with his 9800 Pro he emailed ATI for advice. Both of us were very surprised at their reply which I quote:"Radeon 7000 cards and higher are not designed to work in conjunction with any other video card in the same computer"Has anyone had a similar experience? Is this really true? P
March 4, 200422 yr If you check the multi-monitor database at http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/db.asp , you'll find several people that succesfully used these ATI cards together.Allard Flightsim rig: CPU: AMD 5900x | Mobo: MSI X570 MEG Unify | RAM: 32GB G.Skill Trident Z Neo | GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3090 | Storage: M.2 (2 & 4 TB) | PSU: Corsair RM850x | Case: Fractal Define 7 XL Display: Acer Predator x34 3440x1440 | Speakers: Logitech Z906 Controllers: Fulcrum One Yoke | MFG Crosswind v2 pedals | Honeycomb Bravo Quadrant |Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant | Stream Deck XL & Plus | TrackIR 5 Tobii eye tracking
March 4, 200422 yr Author Yes, we had already checked that website before the reply from ATI. My friend has finally just last evening found a "mate" for his ATI. I had an old Gainward PCI GeF4 MX440 doing nothing so I gave it to him to experiment with and, so far, it is working OK.So the story seems to be - ATI cards are not designed to work with a second card in the same PC but, if you're lucky, you might find one that does.P
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