geforce and gtx on the same machine

[danniela]

hi, I am trying to use in the same pc a geforce 210 and a gtx 1060, the geforce 210 connected to a screen and the gtx1060 connected to 3, but it does not work well, because after placing it sometimes gives the graphics on the screen of the geforce 210, but only in 1 of the 3 screens of the gtx1060 and the device manager shows the gtx1060 with alert.

 

 

if i reinstall the drivers of the gtx1060 it removes the image of the geforce 210 and only gives image in the 3 of the gtx1060, and when i restart it shows again as in the beginning.

 

If it is possible that the two graphics cards work giving image by the screens that each graphic has connected?

[Slizzo]

That's going to be difficult, the last driver to support the GeForce 210 was 341.74 published July 29, 2015. This driver does not support the GTX 1000 series family of cards.

 

I'm not sure you can run both an old NVIDIA driver and newer one at the same time on the same system.

 

 

What is the rest of your system like? Do you have a processor with an iGPU? If you do you could plug the one monitor into the motherboard and take your GeForce 210 out of the system.

[SupaKomputa]

Geforce 210 and 1060 probably need a different set of drivers, since it's very far apart in terms of generation.

BTW 210 no longer supported by windows 11.

[venomtail]

15 minutes ago, danniela said:

If it is possible that the two graphics cards work giving image by the screens that each graphic has connected?

To my knowledge no. Windows has been configured to only use one graphics device for output not a mishmash of them together. Some companies on some models allow for multiple cards to run and be used at the same time, however they're tailor made to model and use case, such as NVIDIAS SLI and whatever dual monster AMD had.

 

You could have multiple NVIDIA cards of the same model together if they support SLI but not different models running SLI together of different cards let alone separatley.

 

The 1060 and GT drivers are fighting each other for who gets to display an image.

 

Just let that 14 year old GPU enjoy its pension.

[SupaKomputa]

14 minutes ago, venomtail said:

Windows has been configured to only use one graphics device for output not a mishmash of them together.

not true, you can run multiple gpu at the same time if the drivers are not in conflict. SLI not required.

You can even run both GPU and igpu like me (ran 3060 for 3 main monitors + 1 output to TV with the igpu).

 

[venomtail]

3 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

not true, you can run multiple gpu at the same time if the drivers are not in conflict. SLI not required.

You can even run both GPU and igpu like me (ran 3060 for 3 main monitors + 1 output to TV with the igpu).

But it's not plug and play I'll guess, which is the dealbreaker for 99% of users.

[SupaKomputa]

1 hour ago, venomtail said:

But it's not plug and play I'll guess, which is the dealbreaker for 99% of users.

it is, windows automatically install my radeon apu and the geforce driver. everything works, even the audio through hdmi to my tv.

[--SID--]

2 hours ago, danniela said:

hi, I am trying to use in the same pc a geforce 210 and a gtx 1060, the geforce 210 connected to a screen and the gtx1060 connected to 3, but it does not work well, because after placing it sometimes gives the graphics on the screen of the geforce 210, but only in 1 of the 3 screens of the gtx1060 and the device manager shows the gtx1060 with alert.

 

 

if i reinstall the drivers of the gtx1060 it removes the image of the geforce 210 and only gives image in the 3 of the gtx1060, and when i restart it shows again as in the beginning.

 

If it is possible that the two graphics cards work giving image by the screens that each graphic has connected?

What's your CPU and motherboard?

[alyen]

It looks like you should be able to get both video cards working, but you have to try looking for older Nvidia drivers yourself through their website to find previous drivers and test if you can get them to work. That's how it can be with much older generation hardware in general.