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The AMD Driver Thread

Soon to have two desktop monitors, I asked the other day in a thread not sure what one.. If I have two displays do they after be connected to the top GPU..

But I just came across this video that when running in extended mode what I will be running I can have each display connected to each GPU.

So GPU1 to display 1, GPU2 to display 2


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fhSLiz079c#t=257


Can anyone confirm you can still do this? And what do you do to control each display?
 
I have both of my screens hooked up to the top gpu. Just go to CCC and set it up in desktop management.

Fwiw, I don't get increased idle temps or usage with a second monitor either.
 
Uncle Petey said:
I have both of my screens hooked up to the top gpu. Just go to CCC and set it up in desktop management.

Fwiw, I don't get increased idle temps or usage with a second monitor either.
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Have you tried running one display from each GPU?? and is they any benefit from doing so?

I was told in other thread AMD dont support this, that AMD video tells different story.

Guess I'll just wait and see.
 
shankly1985 said:
Soon to have two desktop monitors, I asked the other day in a thread not sure what one.. If I have two displays do they after be connected to the top GPU..

But I just came across this video that when running in extended mode what I will be running I can have each display connected to each GPU.

So GPU1 to display 1, GPU2 to display 2


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fhSLiz079c#t=257


Can anyone confirm you can still do this? And what do you do to control each display?
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Where in that video does it say that monitor1 is connected to GPU1 and monitor2 is connected to GPU2? I've had a skim through it but can't see where it mentions that.
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
Ah missed that bit.
Yeah, that seems to quite clearly state that they can connect to different GPUs, although like you (and the other thread) I always thought they had to connect to the top GPU.
Quite a recent video (well, -ish) so maybe something's changed.
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Uncle Petey said:
Not tried it or can think of any benfit for doing so tbh.
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Cool i'll test it when the time comes..
 
Anyone come across this bug? Be aware I have crossfire.

If I'm playing WoW and I alt-tab and try to load Chrome/HTML5 Youtube, I'll get a hard video crash, I assume because GPUs are 'locked' to WoW and when it tries to load hardware video accelleration it crashes. It will all be fine after a hard power off and reboot.

If I disable crossfire, it seems to work fine unless I've been lucky.

Just an annoying niggle not a big issue, but would like to eliminate the crashes if there is a way. I am using the Omega drivers.
 
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To confirm, as expected, disabling HW accelleration resolves this issue.
Glad it was something simple and somewhat expected to be the cause, rather than an absolute ****ache, just a shame I've had to do so!

If anyone else has had this issue with Crossfire/Hardware Accelleration and resolved it in a different manner, let me know!

On the plus side, as I've now added my overclocks at vBIOS level, I no longer have to disable ULPS, so I get the speed, with the added bonus of cooler/quieter when the extra card is powered down :)
Making me tempted to upgrade to 7950 Crossfire as its working pretty well over all (much the same as the last time I had crossfire once dodgy crossfire bridge issues sorted!), but I have little money and as my board is 16x/4x 2.0 not 3.0 on the PCI-E I think it'd get crippled lol
 
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