Triedout the "Lucid Virtu" feature on the gigabyte UD4, and.......

[Phil2008]

Im about to order a Z68 itx board that has both intels onboard video and a onboard nvidia GT430. It says it has lucid virtu. Would this mean if I ran my screen off one of the video outs that normally handles the intel video then it might actually use both depending on the application been used and load?

I understand fps may or may not take a hit which is something that would need to be tested.

You got it spot on. Plus you can add progs/games in the profile that you what your main gpu to use. So everything thats not listed in the profile will use the intel's onboard gpu. http://www.youtube.com/v/Y7Br3W3fX4U?autoplay=1&rel=0&enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=ytplayer

Tell us how you get on with it

 

[.:SAmSuNG:.]

I've also contacted zotac to see if they say if it will work or not. Sounds like a great feature if it works.

 

[TheJackal]

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[555BUK]

QuickSync solution for Z68. H67 & H61 mobo's without the need for third party software


There is no reason to use Lucid. It is crap and slows your system down. Below is an alternative solution which requires no software, and offers maximun performance from your PCI-E graphics plus enables Quicksync at the same time.

As we all know, Intel does not support Quicksync once video is switched to a discreet (PCI-E) graphics card. The reason for this is quite simply because Intels VGPU cannot encode/decode video when it is turned off. The way around this is force the VGPU "on" after your PCI-E graphics is installed.

Now you need a few things to enable this.
1). You must have a Z68, H67, or H61 mobo.
2). You must have a monitor that can accept two inputs (DVI, VGA, HDMI etc), or two monitors.
3). You need two video cables (DVI, VGA, HDMI etc).

Instructions.
1). Plug one video cable from your PCI-E graphics card into one of your monitor inputs (I use DVI from my GTX570 into HDMI-1 on my Dell 24"er).
2). Connect another video cable between the onboard graphics and one of you monitor inputs (I use VGA to the same monitor above).
3). Set your motherboard bios to "Allow output to multiple monitors". Your bios option may be worded sligtly different, but the option should be available.
4). Within Windows check that desktop properties is set to display output on both monitors (you can extend display to both monitors etc).
5). Download a trial version of Mediaespresso, check that Quicksync is enabled, and encode away.

The method above worked for me on both of my H61 and H67 mobos. You can then easily enable or disable Quicksync and multiple monitor output by changing the bios setting to "Disable output to multiple monitors". Give it a try and forget about crappy software.