dmehak Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 I have a Dell Precision 390 Workstation, with a 128MB Quadro FX 550 in it. I?ve used it in the past to play Call Of Duty 4 (not with the greatest results, but at least playable), and recently installed Call Of Duty 5. My frame rates were averaging around 16 or 17, and dropping as low as 2 or 3 (CoD4 was running around 30-40). Will installing the GeForce drivers for my Quadro card help my situation? Originally I was looking into buying a GeForce card, and installing it alongside my Quadro card in the same machine (to have the best of both worlds for CAD and gaming) before I discovered that running GeForce drivers for my Quadro was even possible. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 Will installing the GeForce drivers for my Quadro card help my situation? Depends, how old are your recent drivers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmehak Posted December 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 I?ll be able to check when I get home tonight, not sure what driver is installed off the top of my head? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted December 30, 2008 Report Share Posted December 30, 2008 For example 178.26 is a quadro driver and overall a good benchmarker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmehak Posted January 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 Sorry for the delay of the follow up to this. The card is an NVIDIA Quadro FX 550, and the current driver version is 6.14.11.7846. Not sure if it's going to be possible to get any more gaming performance out of it, especially considering the fact that it has 128 MB of memory, and the minimum system requirements for CoD5 is 256 MB. What do you guys think? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted January 2, 2009 Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 185.20 might give a bit more fps - but just a little; it was faster in all benchmarks than 178.46. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmehak Posted January 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2009 So it looks like my bigger problem is only having half of the minimum required video memory the game requires, which means I need a new video card... Does anyone know if it's possible to install a Quadro card and a GeForce card in one machine? I was thinking I could plug the DVI-D cable into the Quadro card, and the VGA cable into the GeForce card, than have them both hooked up to one monitor. That way when I want to do some gaming, I can change the input on the monitor over to the GeForce input. I'm wondering if this might require a restart to achieve? Not sure what the process would be to switch between two different video cards installed in one machine... Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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