Using multiple drivers?

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I was wondering if anybody could help me. I have two games that I want to
run on my computer. One works with my old video card drivers, and not with
the new, and one works with the new video card drivers, and not with the old.
I was wondering if there was a way I could get my computer to switch back to
the old drivers temporarily when trying to play the game that only works with
the old drivers. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
 
Useless said:
I was wondering if anybody could help me. I have two games that I want to
run on my computer. One works with my old video card drivers, and not with
the new, and one works with the new video card drivers, and not with the
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old.

Seems like one game or the other (possibly both) needs some fixes.

I'm not sure using hardware profiles like Rich suggested will work. You can
enable and disable specific _devices_ with hardware profiles, but not
specific _drivers_ for the same _device_.

You can roll back drivers of course, but as you found out this gets very
cumbersome very quickly. I would sooner ask the maker of the first game,
the one that works with the old drivers, to fix their game. They might
already have patches.

Also, the maker of the video card should be made aware of this problem so
they can fix their driver, should the driver prove to be at fault.

Finally, you could tell one game maker, the other, or the card maker to go
to hell and buy competing products. If you get no help from either game
maker or the card maker, try using a different make of card first, as a
different manufacturer's video card could work with both games.
 
Yeap, if he has XP Pro that was exactly what I was going to suggest.

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