William Robb wrote: >Here's what I got from my high end nVidea: >Dual monitor support, including different backgrounds (not necessary, but >nice). >The computer would remember the colour settings for the monitors. > >Here's what I'm getting from my hight end ATI: >Crippled dual monitor support, with no ability to put different backgrounds >onto each monitor (again, probably not a big deal, but in a 400.00 card, >they could at least do that). >Every time I start the computer (it doesn't matter if it's a cold boot, or a >wake up from hibernation or standby) I have to tell the computer what the >colour settings are for the monitors. This is something I find incredibly >irritating as I never had to do this with my nVidea card. > >As far as colour control goes, there is no difference. >The ATI card kaks on one of the two games I like to play, so I don't get to >play Red Ace Squadron on the computer I am now using. >Overall, I am not happy with the switch to ATI. > >OTOH, it supports open gl with Photoshop, which is nice, since the card has >an overabundance of RAM (1gb).
Interesting. My $94.00 ATI works just like your old nVidia. >I'm hoping Win7 Pro is under the Christmas tree. I've already got it but haven't installed it. I'm still checking compatibility with scanners and things (particularly the Minolta Scan Multi II) and probably waiting until I do a motherboard upgrade, too. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
