G400MAX AGP + Marvel G200TV PCI?

[Sinke]

Is it possible to have G400MAX AGP + Marvel G200TV PCI in one computer? Is video capturing and TV tuner on G200TV going to work???

[wkulecz]

Yes it's "possible" with windows 98 or windows 2000, BUT, for the video capture to work the Marvel will need to be your primary display with the G400 Max as secondary. This means that all the fancy 3D graphics of the G400 will be largely wasted as directdraw/directX only works on the primary display.

You might be able to setup hardware configuration profiles where only one card is active at a time or the role of primary and seconday is switched, but I've never tried it -- you'll still only get the full feature set on the card that is primary display.

This is a Microsoft directdraw/directX design limitation.

--wally.