selecting vido drivers at boot time.

> From: A Computer User
> Sent: March 7, 2006
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: selecting vido drivers at boot time.
>
> Leo,
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> How can I select particular XP video drivers at boot time?
>
> I understand games generally want the latest video card
> drivers. However, I have some games that will not display
> correctly on my LCD at 1600x1200 unless I use a much older
> video card driver for my nVidia 5900. If I use driver older
> than 56.xx, games like RCT3 work. If I update the drivers to
> anything more current, then RCT3 only shows 1024x768 and lower.
>
> (Not unique to RCT3, this happens with a handful of games I enjoy.)
>
> So, what I want is to be able to pick either older or current
> video drivers at boot time, based on what game I'm going to
> play. How can I setup my machine for that? I tried hardware
> profiles but that seems to only let me en/disable the video
> card, not specific driver versions. I also looked at
> multibooting, but XP doesn't seem to support dual-booting two
> copies of itself. Is there something I missed?

I'm actually not aware of any way to select *just* the video
drivers at boot time. I would go the multibooting route. It doesn't
surprise me that MS's solutions might not support multiple versions
of the same OS, but I'll bet that third party solutions would.
I'd google "boot managers" - I've not tried any myself, but there
are both good, and free (and hopefully both) solutions out there.

Thanks for asking,

Leo