OT: Climbing System Requirements and Specs

[Thermodyne]

MS has an app called Virtual Server, and it will let you run guest OS’s from within your host OS. VS is a free download, so if you have a decent system with some ram to spare, you can set up 9x to run right on your desktop. You just load it up and it runs on top of your host OS. You can actually use both at the same time.

[TurinTurambar]

I run a dual-head setup with a Matrox Millenium G550. It's been able to handle everything up till this year. I wanted to play the demo of GalCivII but there are no drivers for this thing past DirectX 9.0. (GalCiv needs 9.0c support) The specs on the card (128bit/32) are up to the challenge except for that little crucial tid-bit. Same thing with the new Tomb Raider Demo.

Is there a good card that supports dual-head setups and will run these new games? I can't seem to find one. Well, not an affordable one at any rate...

TT

[rdouglass]

I run a dual-head setup with a Matrox Millenium G550

I run the same card and the obvious Q I had is the driver version. I'm running driver ver 5.95.5.0 on XP Pro and don't have problems with anything. I had lots of prob's with ver 5.21.xxx (or was it 5.27.xxx) either way the new version seemed to solve a ton of probs on my G550 card.

[TurinTurambar]

rdouglass said:

I run the same card and the obvious Q I had is the driver version. I'm running driver ver 5.95.5.0 on XP Pro and don't have problems with anything. I had lots of prob's with ver 5.21.xxx (or was it 5.27.xxx) either way the new version seemed to solve a ton of probs on my G550 card.

Where did you get that driver? And have you tried to play a DirX9.0c game on it?

TT

[rdouglass]

TurinTurambar said:
Where did you get that driver? And have you tried to play a DirX9.0c game on it?

TT

Got it from a new g550 card purchased new. I have about 50 of these cards in my office where I work as well as in my home PC. I ZIP'ed up the CD minus the Adobe Acrobat, DirectX, and docs (went from 180Mb down to 19 Mb) and put it here if you want it:

http://www.clarkinsurance.com/Matrox5.95.5.0.zip

I am not sure what version of DirectX games I've played but I know I play at least 1 (my 6 year old plays LEGO StarWars and I know that uses DirectX and I think it may even be 'c')

[TurinTurambar]

rdouglass said:

Got it from a new g550 card purchased new. I have about 50 of these cards in my office where I work as well as in my home PC. I ZIP'ed up the CD minus the Adobe Acrobat, DirectX, and docs (went from 180Mb down to 19 Mb) and put it here if you want it:

http://www.clarkinsurance.com/Matrox5.95.5.0.zip

I am not sure what version of DirectX games I've played but I know I play at least 1 (my 6 year old plays LEGO StarWars and I know that uses DirectX and I think it may even be 'c')

Funny that, Matrox says the latest driver is 5.93 for that particular card, and Driver Detective says I'm up-to-date. The only mention I can find of that driver is for a 400-series or Parahelia cards. You say this came with the G550 cd eh? Hmmm...

Oh, and hey, I downloaded that file thanks. Is it the whole "P-desk" install? If so I'll have to uninstall what I have first.

Thx,
TT

[rdouglass]

Is it the whole "P-desk" install?

Not the whole CD but should be all the PowerDesk stuff. As I said, I just removed Adobe Acrobat, DirectX, and the documentation. I have the bandwidth and space if you do. Let me know and I'll put up the whole thing.

And yup, got that CD with the last batch of 10 G550 cards I bought. I put the same driver on my personal G550 (which originally came with the 5.23 drivers) with no probs at all.

[Fyron]

Or you could get Vmware to do the same thing, also free now.

[Atrocities]

Computers are overrated.

[TurinTurambar]

Imperator Fyron said:
Or you could get Vmware to do the same thing, also free now.

Buh?