Well, now I'm really heartbroken.

I've got a shiny new GPU that I've spent hundreds of pounds on, and it's 
taken me over a week to get to the stage where I can use it. This should 
be the crowning glory!

However...

- My old GPU was already fast enough to do just about anything you could 
want. The new one is approximately 4x better according to 3Dmark 05, but 
since the old one was already good enough, there's not really any 
visible benefit.

- It comes with a free license key to unlock the full version of 3Dmark 
Vantage. I've run several versions of 3Dmark, but always the crippled 
"free" version that hardly does anything. Finally, I can run a full 
version... Wait, no I can't. It *demands* Windows Vista and refuses to 
work without it. (Which I guess is fair enough; it's entire purpose is 
to test all the new DirectX 10 stuff.)

- One night I sat down and ran all the demos from nVidia's website. The 
last few wouldn't run because I only had a 7-series GPU. In particular, 
I dearly wanted to run Cascades. Now I have a suitable GPU, and I can 
fina- wait, no, *this* demands DirectX 10 also. As do almost all the 
demos I couldn't run before, actually.

- One of the main reasons I went for this super-expensive GPU rather 
than just buying a much cheaper model was so that I could have CUDA 
support. I'm extremely excited about this technology, which became 
available just *after* I got my previous card. Finally I have a suitable 
GPU, and there's a Flame renderer that I dearly want to use. It does the 
same thing as the normal Flame renderer, just 50x faster! 8-D Except 
that... I can't make it work. It will render on the CPU, but nothing I 
do can convince it to use my beautiful new GPU to go trippy-fast.

In short, every single thing I wanted to do now I have this new GPU 
actually fails to work. I've spent hundreds and hundreds of pounds for 
nothing.

I want a hug... :'{

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