BF2 with two video cards

[Jonny]

I have both an AGP and PCI video card installed and am now unable to play Battlefield 2. Contacting EA technical support, they told me they "do not support to display adapters at once." Sounds ridiculous but it may be the case...so I was wondering if any of you out there are using more than one video card at once and are able to run the game.

Thanks for any input!

[_SilentXScope_]

Re: BF2 with two video cards

lol.... you cant run a pci and agp card like sli or crossfire. you have to have the same matching cards and two matching pci express slots. ATI is crossfire. And Nvidia is SLI. lol

[lil_jimmy_norton]

Re: BF2 with two video cards

lol.... you cant run a pci and agp card like sli or crossfire. you have to have the same matching cards and two matching pci express slots. ATI is crossfire. And Nvidia is SLI. lol

But you can run dual monitors on them. That is what he is doing. He's not trying to run SLI or anythng of the sort.

Most likely the PCI card is below the min requirments, just disable it and BF2 should work fine.

[sackynut]

Re: BF2 with two video cards

yeah, disable one for the game and it should work (use the best one). if worst comes to worst take one out. but I dont see how it would come to this. I serisouly dont know what to do because thats pretty intense.

[Jonny]

Re: BF2 with two video cards

But you can run dual monitors on them. That is what he is doing. He's not trying to run SLI or anythng of the sort.

Most likely the PCI card is below the min requirments, just disable it and BF2 should work fine.

Exactly the case-- except I'm running three monitors. I didn't mention it in my original post, but yes the game did work with just my AGP card. My question to you all was if there was anyone who had a similiar setup (dual video cards for dual or more monitors) and was able to get the game to run.

As I stated, I find it silly that I'd have to pull out/disable my other video card to play this specific game and was just trying to see if it's the only way.

[Talus]

Re: BF2 with two video cards

Dual monitor/card support is not included with BF2 so you likely won't have much luck.

Can you run other games with that setup?

[Jonny]

Re: BF2 with two video cards

Dual monitor/card support is not included with BF2 so you likely won't have much luck.

Can you run other games with that setup?

Yes, other games I've tried work fine. Using dual monitors on a single card did work fine though in Battlefield 2-- it's just dual video cards that's not.

[Talus]

Re: BF2 with two video cards

Well, I doubt you'll actually get it working..but let's see what other people come up with.

BF2 is VERY picky and poorly optimized to boo. I wouldn't hold my breath.