Lucid Virtu

areksnumbr1sxylady · 7 Aug 2012 at 12:28

Hi, So I decided to give lucid a go... got HDMI cable and plugged it in mobo and then monitor along with my DVI cable from 560 ti... Installed Lucid software but the problem seems that it does not work :/ I press enable Lucid and nothing happens, GPU is still being used. If I manually switch to HDMI on monitor it shows empty windows screen with wallpaper.

Intel HD graphics icon has appeared in the tray box...

Monitor is Samsung 3d, If I physically take out DVI cable HDMI starts to work, but if I put it back in, the HDMI display starts to jolt up and down.... Lucid still does not do a thing.

What am I doing wrong??

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Phil2008 · 7 Aug 2012 at 12:36

Think you only need the hdmi connected between motherboard and monitor, as I tried it out xmas time.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18352696

areksnumbr1sxylady · 7 Aug 2012 at 12:53

Phil2008 said:
Think you only need the hdmi connected between motherboard and monitor, as I tried it out xmas time.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18352696

But surely that beats the point of Lucid??? How can my GTX send signal to monitor through motherboards HDMI?

Phil2008 · 7 Aug 2012 at 12:55

Lazder said:
But surely that beats the point of Lucid??? How can my GTX send signal to monitor through motherboards HDMI?

No idea but it does somehow,, quite clever hey?

P3N9U1N · 7 Aug 2012 at 12:57

the PCI slot I'm guessing. Im sure you have to use the motherboard connector as it uses you iGPU as well

areksnumbr1sxylady · 7 Aug 2012 at 13:00

Ok so let me get this straight, I only need HDMI cable from motherboard and I can get rid of DVI from GPU to monitor?

Phil2008 · 7 Aug 2012 at 13:05

Lazder said:
But surely that beats the point of Lucid???

The idea of Lucid is when your use none intensive gpu apps/games, it uses the iGPU to save on power.

Phil2008 · 7 Aug 2012 at 13:07

Lazder said:
Ok so let me get this straight, I only need HDMI cable from motherboard and I can get rid of DVI from GPU to monitor?

Yes, and you need to make profiles of the games/apps you want your main gpu to work with if I remember rightly,, Ah yeah remember to set it to use iGPU in the bios

P3N9U1N · 7 Aug 2012 at 13:11

Lazder said:
Ok so let me get this straight, I only need HDMI cable from motherboard and I can get rid of DVI from GPU to monitor?

As far as I know, you only need the one cable from mobo to monitor but don't hold me to that. Though I have lucid virtu with my UD5-H, I have yet to even boot it up since I got it 2 months ago. I did a little research and came to the conclusion that only the one cable is required

areksnumbr1sxylady · 7 Aug 2012 at 13:17

Ok so I took out DVI cable from my GPU and monitor and only left in HDMI... IGPU works fine now... but I cant seem to understand how to get my GPU going...

When I enable Virtu, does that turn on IGPU or GPU??? So confusing ...

Phil2008 · 7 Aug 2012 at 13:42

you need to make the profiles

areksnumbr1sxylady · 7 Aug 2012 at 14:08

Yeah, I got it to work -.- finally... However I wonder if there is any performance loss in games?

Phil2008 · 7 Aug 2012 at 14:18

Lazder said:
Yeah, I got it to work -.- finally... However I wonder if there is any performance loss in games?

I found a few fps loss in games, thats why I stopped using it

areksnumbr1sxylady · 7 Aug 2012 at 14:24

Phil2008 said:
I found a few fps loss in games, thats why I stopped using it

Eh, so it is pretty useless then... In windows GPU is only being forced to be used by 2-3% so the only bonus is being "green"?

Mint_Sauce · 7 Aug 2012 at 14:58

What about dual monitor setups, does it work?