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I have an asus p8z68-v lx & i5 2500k and trying to get my head around this lucid virtu/quicksync setting. There seem to be countless posts around regarding how it should be set up.
Some say run imode and have it connected to the motherboard display
Some say run it in dmode and connect to discrete graphics card
I have installed the Lucid software and plugged in my hdmi cable to my Nvidia pci graphics card, enabled Lucid in bios and chosen PCI/PCIe as the preferred graphics. Then ‘turned on’ the Lucid Virtu in its control panel. I get an ‘Applications’ tab with a few things in like arcsoft converter.
So could anyone clear up a few things that I’m a bit confused about.
1) Lucid Virtu allows the gpu of the chip to take over certain tasks, does it only do applications that have been setup in the Lucid control panel?
2) Quicksync – does this only work with certain programs
I do the odd bit of backing up and file conversion, fairly old school standard stuff - dvdfab for dvd backup and then autogk to convert, is any of this virtu/quicksync stuff beneficial to any of that, if I add the autogk exe to the Lucid applications does it do anything. Also play a bit of BF3.
I think I’m going to have to just test things plugged into graphics card/motherboard display/virtu on/off to see what if any difference I get with doing certain tasks.
Sorry bit new to this i been using a 775 for good few years and just splashed out and want to make sure i'm getting most out of it
In another post http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18352696 555BUK says ignore the Lucid software and….
There is no reason to use Lucid. It is crap and slows your system down. Below is an alternative solution which requires no software, and offers maximun performance from your PCI-E graphics plus enables Quicksync at the same time.
As we all know, Intel does not support Quicksync once video is switched to a discreet (PCI-E) graphics card. The reason for this is quite simply because Intels VGPU cannot encode/decode video when it is turned off. The way around this is force the VGPU "on" after your PCI-E graphics is installed.
Now you need a few things to enable this.
1). You must have a Z68, H67, or H61 mobo.
2). You must have a monitor that can accept two inputs (DVI, VGA, HDMI etc), or two monitors.
3). You need two video cables (DVI, VGA, HDMI etc).
Instructions.
1). Plug one video cable from your PCI-E graphics card into one of your monitor inputs (I use DVI from my GTX570 into HDMI-1 on my Dell 24"er).
2). Connect another video cable between the onboard graphics and one of you monitor inputs (I use VGA to the same monitor above).
3). Set your motherboard bios to "Allow output to multiple monitors". Your bios option may be worded sligtly different, but the option should be available.
4). Within Windows check that desktop properties is set to display output on both monitors (you can extend display to both monitors etc).
5). Download a trial version of Mediaespresso, check that Quicksync is enabled, and encode away.
The method above worked for me on both of my H61 and H67 mobos. You can then easily enable or disable Quicksync and multiple monitor output by changing the bios setting to "Disable output to multiple monitors". Give it a try and forget about crappy software.
I have an asus p8z68-v lx & i5 2500k and trying to get my head around this lucid virtu/quicksync setting. There seem to be countless posts around regarding how it should be set up.
Some say run imode and have it connected to the motherboard display
Some say run it in dmode and connect to discrete graphics card
I have installed the Lucid software and plugged in my hdmi cable to my Nvidia pci graphics card, enabled Lucid in bios and chosen PCI/PCIe as the preferred graphics. Then ‘turned on’ the Lucid Virtu in its control panel. I get an ‘Applications’ tab with a few things in like arcsoft converter.
So could anyone clear up a few things that I’m a bit confused about.
1) Lucid Virtu allows the gpu of the chip to take over certain tasks, does it only do applications that have been setup in the Lucid control panel?
2) Quicksync – does this only work with certain programs
I do the odd bit of backing up and file conversion, fairly old school standard stuff - dvdfab for dvd backup and then autogk to convert, is any of this virtu/quicksync stuff beneficial to any of that, if I add the autogk exe to the Lucid applications does it do anything. Also play a bit of BF3.
I think I’m going to have to just test things plugged into graphics card/motherboard display/virtu on/off to see what if any difference I get with doing certain tasks.
Sorry bit new to this i been using a 775 for good few years and just splashed out and want to make sure i'm getting most out of it
In another post http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18352696 555BUK says ignore the Lucid software and….
There is no reason to use Lucid. It is crap and slows your system down. Below is an alternative solution which requires no software, and offers maximun performance from your PCI-E graphics plus enables Quicksync at the same time.
As we all know, Intel does not support Quicksync once video is switched to a discreet (PCI-E) graphics card. The reason for this is quite simply because Intels VGPU cannot encode/decode video when it is turned off. The way around this is force the VGPU "on" after your PCI-E graphics is installed.
Now you need a few things to enable this.
1). You must have a Z68, H67, or H61 mobo.
2). You must have a monitor that can accept two inputs (DVI, VGA, HDMI etc), or two monitors.
3). You need two video cables (DVI, VGA, HDMI etc).
Instructions.
1). Plug one video cable from your PCI-E graphics card into one of your monitor inputs (I use DVI from my GTX570 into HDMI-1 on my Dell 24"er).
2). Connect another video cable between the onboard graphics and one of you monitor inputs (I use VGA to the same monitor above).
3). Set your motherboard bios to "Allow output to multiple monitors". Your bios option may be worded sligtly different, but the option should be available.
4). Within Windows check that desktop properties is set to display output on both monitors (you can extend display to both monitors etc).
5). Download a trial version of Mediaespresso, check that Quicksync is enabled, and encode away.
The method above worked for me on both of my H61 and H67 mobos. You can then easily enable or disable Quicksync and multiple monitor output by changing the bios setting to "Disable output to multiple monitors". Give it a try and forget about crappy software.