GT710 P8 State Not Enough To Run Dual Monitors

[F1aw1ess]

Hey,

Hope someone can point me in the right direction.

I have 2x GPU's in my machine, a GTX1070 for my main monitor which is a 1440p IPS Gsync and a GT710 for my two other 60hz Samsung 1080p screens.

The problem im having is that the GT710 clocks down to 135/405 in idle and I get corruption on the screens when moving around Outlook. If I move outlook onto my main screen it works fine and if i force the 710 to clock up using Kombuster or something similar it also works fine so its def a clock issue.

What im trying to do is slightly increase the idle P8 state of the 710 so the corruption stops, I have tried NVidia Inspector which allows me to increase the memory to 485 but it wont allow me to change the core clock speed which is where the issue arises from.

Does anyone know if there is a way to manually set the idle P8 clock in the driver or possibly do a flash of somekind?

Thanks

 

[Jimmy Weirdarms]

I can't answer your question, but is there a reason not to just drive the other screens from the 1070? It should be more than capable, particularly if you're only doing desktop stuff on them.

 

[andy_mk3]

I can't answer your question, but is there a reason not to just drive the other screens from the 1070? It should be more than capable, particularly if you're only doing desktop stuff on them.

Absolutely this. I'm driving 2x 1440p screens and an Oculus Rift S from my 1080. It doesn't really make sense to have the second card.

 

[F1aw1ess]

There is a reason for it, the monitor I have is only a gsync compatible monitor and if i have gsync turned on and anymore than one monitor attached to the 1070 I get periodic black screens.

 

[andy_mk3]

There is a reason for it, the monitor I have is only a gsync compatible monitor and if i have gsync turned on and anymore than one monitor attached to the 1070 I get periodic black screens.

That's odd. My main display is gsync and the rest have no issues at all.

 

[F1aw1ess]

yeah its not a 'real' gsync monitor nor on the nvidia compatible list but it works providing I don't have any other monitor attached to the GPU which is why i run the 2nd GPU

 

[Jimmy Weirdarms]

We saw something similar when we had the main (1440p, 165Hz, freesync) screen hanging off a 2070, with HDR activated on that screen but not on the second screen.

Turning off HDR made the issue go away. For us that was no great issue because the HDR on the main monitor is not all that special anyway.

What processor have you got? Any onboard graphics that you can use?

(To be clear, the issue was "With HDR activated, when switching focus from a WoW on the main monitor to another program on the secondary monitor, the screen would go black for a while. Not sure if it applied to other games. HDR off was our easiest fix.)