MSI Z68-GD80 Lucid Virtu Problems

bongla316

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Hi guys, I need help with installing the Lucid virtu drivers. Basically I finished my build yesterday and installed all the drivers successfully apart from the lucid virtu one. Whenever I try to install it I get a message saying 'No sandybridge graphics family device found' (or something along those lines). Can anyone help?

I don't know if these things are relevant but:

1. The VGA driver logo on the MSI chipset drivers disc is blanked out (so I can't install it).

2. Should I connect my DVI cable directly to the motherboard or to the graphics card?
 
on my asrock i installed all motherboard drivers before fitting my gfx card to be safe. maybe take the card out and try to install drivers then, or just plug in to the onboard graphics and see what happens.
let me know how you get on with lucid, i found it made everything slower.
 
I had a similiar problem too on my board but then realised the IGP was disabled in BIOS. Go into BIOS and see if you can enable it, then install the drivers for it. After that you can install Lucid Virtu.
 
This may be of no use at all but I read in CPC Z68 review that you have to make all the connections between the onboard connector and monitor as well as video card.. Unless I'm not reading correctly.


How to set up Virtu
The first process in setting up Virtu was to make sure that both the PG and the GTX 590 3GB were enabled concurrently. That meant a trip to the BIOS (Gigabyte is still working on an EFI for its LGA1155 motherboards) and the Advance BIOS Features. There we could set the Onboard VGA to Always Enable, thus forcing the PG to be active, even when we had installed the GeForce GTX 590 3GB graphics card. The next step is distinctly weird, though, as you have to install the graphics driver for your card and for the PG.

Previously, that would result in BSODs and a Windows re-install, but it worked fine with us. The only issue we hit was having to constantly switch from the GeForce video outputs to the PG’s, but we solved that by using two different display cables which went to the same monitor. Needless to say, this is far from the most user friendly setup.
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I'm using the GA-Z68MX-UD2H, initially I had both my monitors connected to my 6850. Went into BIOS, enabled the IGP, installed the HD3000 drivers, then went to the Lucid site to install the Virtu drivers. Everything worked fine for me after that.

I have however moved my secondary monitor to the IGP as AMD's powerplay gives silly idle temps when more then one monitor is connected (a 12c difference). Virtu still works fine.

I did have one problem though, when I tried updating the 6850 drivers, it conflicted with the Virtu drivers and caused me a BSOD. This messed up both graphics drivers and forced me to do a fresh install of Windows. Not going to bother with Virtu anymore, my 2600K is fast enough for encoding anyway.
 
From the sound of things it seems to vary between different setups. Virtu still is in it's early days, it worked for me but sometimes it messes up on certain programs. I guess it's best to try it out yourself first and see if it works for you.
 
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