Current mood:

annoyed

Fuck You, Vista
So... Just in case any of you ever needed to know this information, Windows Vista doesn't let you use multiple video cards unless all of the video cards use the same driver. That means if you've got a sexy ATI card as your primary and you want to toss in a cheap nVidia to power tertiary monitors, you can't do it. You have to get another expensive ATI card that will use the exact same drivers. Pain in my fucking ass.

Of course this worked fine in XP, and in fact you can use the XP drivers in Vista and it'll work, but then you can't use the fancy Aero affects that Vista gives you. That's bullocks.

Of course Windows 7 will support it, but I don't think I'm going to wait around for another year and a half or more to get my third monitor up and running at work.

So my ATI x1300 video card that matches the one already in my machine is on the way from Amazon. Of course my current card is AGP and the new one is PCI and they're different manufacturers, but everything I've read says that they should still use the same drivers and this should work fine. But in my opinion, it should have fucking worked fine with the GeForce 5200 I picked up at Best Buy.