Lucid Virtu MVP - Help Needed

Mad Professor

Mad Professor

Mad Professor

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Good Day All.

I have done a small upgrade on my PC, and I am trying to get the Lucid Virtu MVP working, but I seem to be having a few problems.

Here are my current system details.

Processor: Intel Ivybridge 3770K
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3.
Hard Drive: Western Digital 1TB Black WD1002FAEX
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-B083L
Graphics Card: nVidia 9800GTX+ 512MB
Power Supply: XFX XPS-850W-BES
Microsoft Windows 7 64bit Home Premium

From my basic understanding of "Lucid Virtu MVP" I should be able to plug my monitor into the D-SUB/DVI/HDMI port on the motherboard, and use the onboard video Intel HD4000 that is build into the IvyBridge processor, so that the nVidia 9800GTX+ can go into idle, unto such point that it is needed.

I have installed the following software/drivers.

Intel HD4000 Driver Version: 8.15.10.2761
nVidia 9800GTX+ Driver Version: 301.42
Lucid Virtu MVP Version: 2.1.115a.23214

But I can not seem to get the nVidia 9800GTX+ to come out of idle, and take over.

Can someone please adive.

Thanks for your time.

Best Regards.
 
I belive in the bios it should have a option to enable GPU clock control override or something like that, That might be the option to kick in the GPU when you need it and use the onboard when you dont! I could be wrong but i think thats what your looking for!

I could be wrong so dont quote me on that,
 
I have just had a quick look in my BIOS, and the only things I could find related to video was all under Peripherals.

Init Display First: Auto/IGFX/PEG/PCI
Internal Graphics: Auto/Disabled/Enabled
Internal Graphics Memory Size: 128M
DVMT Total Memory Size: 128M/256M/MAX
 
Plug the cable into your graphics card and use the MVP that way.

Trying to use the lucid tech to power down the card and use the on chip GPU on your CPU is more hassle than its worth.

You might also find that your GPU isn't supported by MVP, or that the month has a u in it.
 
Mad Professor said:
I have just had a quick look in my BIOS, and the only things I could find related to video was all under Peripherals.

Init Display First: Auto/IGFX/PEG/PCI
Internal Graphics: Auto/Disabled/Enabled
Internal Graphics Memory Size: 128M
DVMT Total Memory Size: 128M/256M/MAX
Click to expand...

ASUS board so different bios but I set it up so primary display was PCIe, interenal graphics enabled, and also had another option (iGPU multi monitor) which I had to set to enabled for virtu MVP to work.

Also had to install the intel iGPU graphics drivers, doesnt seem to interfere with the catalyst drivers at all.

Seems worth tinkering with to get working, no more tearing on BF3, all looks much smoother with the virtual v-sync thing enabled.
 
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