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P8Z68 Integrated Graphics / Virtu problem

hp_uk182

hp_uk182

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Hi, I have just built a new system with i7-2600k, ASUS P8Z68-V mobo, and Sapphire Radeon HD6670 GPU. Running Win 7 home premium.

I do a lot of photo and video editing so I went to install the Lucid Virtu software from the Mobo CD and a message comes up to say "No Intel (R) HD integrated graphics family device or driver found setup will now exit".

I tried to install the driver fromhere and it says my system does not meet the minimum requirements??!!

Now the worrying thing is when I try to connect my DVI or HDMI cables to the Mobo, I get no display at all. I have tried rebooting and I've gone into BIOS, but I can't find anywhere in the BIOS to enable iGPU. In fact I can't find anywhere in the BIOS that mentions anything to do with graphics at all, neither integrated nor my graphics card.

Sorry if this seems a stupid question but I am a total novice, help please! I have tried searching but to no avail (your forum has already helped me to reinstall Win7, setup my SSD and enable Intel RST...). Thanks in advance...
 
You have not switched the internal Gpu on in the Bios screen.

You need to go into the onboard devices section and just look around for initiate display or display init, something like that, and select the option that has Igpu at the begining of it.

I personally wouldnt bother as Lucid Virtu is a buggy pile of crap.
 
I have looked in Onboard Devices and could not see that option. I will check again when I get home.

Is there a better alternative to Virtu that can speed up photo/video converting? Thanks
 
Thanks I managed to find it in "System Agent Configuration".

There is a Quick Sync plugin for Premiere Elements that I am hoping to use.

Thanks

Alex
 
Thanks purgatory, it's working already. No thanks to Virtu for not providing a manual on their website! I shall switch my monitors onto the discrete GPU to utilise d-mode :-)
 
What happens if you have one monitor plugged into the mobo and one in the GPU? Do you get one screen in D-mode and one in I-mode? What about one monitor plugged into both?!??

edit: thinking about it that would be pointless, taking away the benefits of either mode!
 
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I'm not really too sure, I think they will work as if you had 2 different graphics cards in the system and would basically allow 2 or more screens (1 screen on the intergrated or whatever it can support and same for the dedicated card), but most dedicated cards these days have 2 or more outputs for dual screen so I would always plug more then one screen into the dedicated GPU not the intergrated. I have setup systems in the past with more then one graphics card and very different graphics cards and they just work like 2 graphics cards (NO SLI OR CFX here), so I would guess the system sees them the same way and treats them the same. I'm guessing Virtu would really then not need to be installed because both GPUS would always be on, What Virtu does is stick the CPU intergrated graphics to idle or off when not used so saves power and reduces heat that way when used with a dedicated card, but when Virtu detects any program that will use the GPU intergrated better it switches to it, eg video encoding.
 
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