Quote Originally Posted by highoctane View Post
The biggest issue I see when trying to run a consumer grade video card with professional software is consumer hardware usually lacks the software developers certification/validation which is needed to enable specific hardware accelerated features.

So while the consumer card should be able to do everything the professional cards do without the certification/validation you can't take advantage of some or all of the hardware accelerated features possible for a software package.
Couldn't a simple DeviceID spoofing solve that issue?