Driver(s) for dual cards --- 8800 GTS and 7900 GTX

Dell XPS 600, XP Pro.

I have a problem with Premiere Pro 2.0 that requires me to turn
off hardware acceleration under my current unified 97.92
drivers.

Is that the latest that will drive both cards? Ideally I would
like to turn hardware acceleration back on, hoping that would
work with new drivers.

Thanks in advance,


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Andrew Hall
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wrote:
Dell XPS 600, XP Pro.

I have a problem with Premiere Pro 2.0 that requires me to turn
off hardware acceleration under my current unified 97.92
drivers.

Is that the latest that will drive both cards? Ideally I would
like to turn hardware acceleration back on, hoping that would
work with new drivers.

Thanks in advance,



The newest official 158.19 drivers can be made to support the 7900, it's
only a matter of adding it to the .inf file before installing. See a
similar post on Guru3D:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=223244

If you feel adventurous, go with the 165 series. I've been stable with
158 on my 8800GTS.

On 30 Apr 2007 16:22:40 -0400, wrote:


Dell XPS 600, XP Pro.

I have a problem with Premiere Pro 2.0 that requires me to turn
off hardware acceleration under my current unified 97.92
drivers.


This intrigues me a little, as I am potentially interested in
acquiring PP2.0.

(a) If you remove one of the cards, do you still have to turn hardware
acceleration off ?

(b) What display configuration(s) are you driving with the two cards ?


John Lewis


Is that the latest that will drive both cards? Ideally I would
like to turn hardware acceleration back on, hoping that would
work with new drivers.

Thanks in advance,


--
Andrew Hall
(Now reading Usenet in alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia...)

John Lewis writes:

John On 30 Apr 2007 16:22:40 -0400, wrote:

Dell XPS 600, XP Pro.

I have a problem with Premiere Pro 2.0 that requires me to turn
off hardware acceleration under my current unified 97.92
drivers.


John This intrigues me a little, as I am potentially interested in
John acquiring PP2.0.

John (a) If you remove one of the cards, do you still have to turn hardware
John acceleration off ?

I did not try that. The problem went away. It had persisted for about four
weeks (before which I had not used the program for a few months). It went
away when I turned off HWA completely. After I was pretty convinced it was gone,
I tried turning HWA back on in increments. Now for several days, and a couple
of reboots, the slow behavior has not come back with HWA back to full.

I have no clue where it came from. The slowness was completely isolated to PP2.0.
After Effects, Photoshop, and all the other software I was running performed very
well. Nothing odd showed up in Task Manager, lots of spare memory and CPU cycles.

John (b) What display configuration(s) are you driving with the two cards ?

Two Dell 2405 flat panel monitors.

BTW, Adobe has a new version of PP, CS3. Ditto for most of their other products.
Should start shipping around now, if not already.


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Andrew Hall
(Now reading Usenet in alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia...)

writes:

John Lewis writes:
John On 30 Apr 2007 16:22:40 -0400, wrote:

Dell XPS 600, XP Pro.

I have a problem with Premiere Pro 2.0 that requires me to turn
off hardware acceleration under my current unified 97.92
drivers.


John This intrigues me a little, as I am potentially interested in
John acquiring PP2.0.

John (a) If you remove one of the cards, do you still have to turn hardware
John acceleration off ?

I did not try that. The problem went away. It had persisted for about four
weeks (before which I had not used the program for a few months). It went
away when I turned off HWA completely. After I was pretty convinced it was gone,
I tried turning HWA back on in increments. Now for several days, and a couple
of reboots, the slow behavior has not come back with HWA back to full.

I have no clue where it came from. The slowness was completely isolated to PP2.0.
After Effects, Photoshop, and all the other software I was running performed very
well. Nothing odd showed up in Task Manager, lots of spare memory and CPU cycles.

John (b) What display configuration(s) are you driving with the two cards ?

Two Dell 2405 flat panel monitors.

BTW, Adobe has a new version of PP, CS3. Ditto for most of their other products.
Should start shipping around now, if not already.


whoops, the slowness just came back. A quick toggle of two notches
down on the hardware acceleration, then back up fixed it. But it is
annoying.


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Andrew Hall
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