Laptop with NVIDIA SLI driver enabled

[Combine Hybrid]

I'm planning to get a laptop equipped with dual NVIDIA graphic card. So vista does not support NVIDIA SLI, which probably means I'm going for XP. Let's say if they released vista able to equip nvidia SLI driver, will I able to use dual graphic cards once I change back to Vista from XP?

 

[NeptuneUK]

Yes?
Also, didnt you answer your own question? Assuming there are vista drivers for the other important laptop components.
ie sound, wireless etc.

 

[giant384]

ya you basically answered your own question. you will be able to when nvidia gets to working on that.

 

[Ravioli]

wait! Vista doesnt support SLI????? WTF!?!?!?

 

[Link]

Technically SLI dosen't support vista, but yeah so I hear.

 

[MRG]

I find it amusing that Vista has so many shortfalls that they even bothered to release it. Hello?? Was not Vista touted as being the "Ultimate OS for Gamers" but they don't support SLI? I have heard though, that this is no longer true. That Vista does support SLI or was that one of the new features in the SP1 update coming out in 2008. Can anyone confirm this?

Then I was reading that Microsoft is releasing it's new OS in 3 years. That they have already begun working on it. I understand hardware changes & all, but come on! 5 years after WinXP was released, they were still fixing stuff!! So over half the world is just now getting WinXP up and running and now they need to worry about Vista or yet a new OS?

Sigh...

-MRG

 

[Link]

I'm not some sort of MS fanboy, believe me, if there was the games support for it, I'd be running linux, however, I come from a tech background, so something getting the blame for something elses fault irks me.

Its not up to MS to make SLI work, its up to Nvidea. They are the ones that create the drivers. Its like when new games come out that don't work with SLI untill Nvidea release an update/profile for it. You don't blame the game developer, you blame Nvidea.

Don't get me wrong, vista sucks balls in many many respects, but this one isn't on them. Try the built in wireless support, that really deserves bashing

 

[Combine Hybrid]

So I can switch back and forth between XP and Vista, using dual graphic card using XP, and using single graphic card for Vista.

 

[Eejit]

Its not up to MS to make SLI work, its up to Nvidea. They are the ones that create the drivers. Its like when new games come out that don't work with SLI untill Nvidea release an update/profile for it. You don't blame the game developer, you blame Nvidea.

I'm pretty sure I read on this forum last month that it was at least partly MS' fault and they only fixed something at that time which would stop SLI and Crossfire from working whatever ATi or Nvidia would do.

 

[Link]

Due to the way vista works the driver had to be rewritten from the ground up. Plus, there were tricks and loop holes in XP that graphics card drivers took advantage of which don't exist in vista.

However, this is true of a lot of software. If MS changed vista to make it compatble with every XP program, we would just have XP.

And its all rather irrelivent anyway, because you can get SLI drivers for vista

 

[giant384]

Due to the way vista works the driver had to be rewritten from the ground up. Plus, there were tricks and loop holes in XP that graphics card drivers took advantage of which don't exist in vista.

However, this is true of a lot of software. If MS changed vista to make it compatble with every XP program, we would just have XP.

And its all rather irrelivent anyway, because you can get SLI drivers for vista

it doesnt work with notebook if you didnt read it

 

[Link]

The threads now talking about SLI on vista in general if you didn't read it

 

[Tyguy]

Does vista support crossfire?

That seems very stoopid in my opinion

 

[giant384]

The threads now talking about SLI on vista in general if you didn't read it

it really doesn't support it.....sli is still in beta stages for vista and i dont consider that supported. they haven't even touched the laptop sli driver though. there arent many who buy sli laptops.

 

[Asus]

Does vista support crossfire?

That seems very stoopid in my opinion

Hotfix for Vista