Monitor off physx card

[l3lumarlin]

Hello,
I am curious if I ran dual monitors off my main GTX580 could I run my TV off a physx card like a GTX260?

 

[borisof007]

No, you cannot.

When you have a card dedicated to Physx, it disables its ability to display as it only acts as an engine for processing the Physx requests from the game you're playing.

 

[jyjjy]

No, you cannot.

Unless he is willing to open the control panel and change the setting that is.
In other words, no, you cannot use it to watch TV while specifically playing a game that utilizes GPU accelerated PhysX with the GTX 260 dedicated to such. Other than that it should work fine if you just don't have it dedicated to PhysX in the settings when it's not needed for such.

 

[borisof007]

News to me, thought that once you dedicated a card for Physx that it was pretty much locked into doing that.

 

[jyjjy]

It is... until you set it not to be.

 

[borisof007]

STOP BEING CRYPTIC!

I'll have to do some research on it then.

 

[jyjjy]

lol
You dedicate a card to PhysX in the settings. When it isn't dedicated to PhysX it can run a monitor/tv, when it is you cannot.

 

[bucknutty]

You can switch between physics on GPU or on CPU. Setting physics to CPU will free up the extra video card.

Rember the clasic nvidia control panel that had a hotkey option. I used to use S+L+I all at the same time to turn SLI on and off so I could swtich between 1 focus screen and 3 screens quickly. (now adays you can run 3 screens even with SLI enabled so my example is sort of poor).

If the control panel still had that option you could set one where the 250 is a physics card, and one where physics is CPU based and the 250 is a secondary.

 

[borisof007]

Oh well that I knew!! I thought you were talking about a way for it to STILL be dedicated to physx and run a monitor, that's why I was so confused.

Yeah, you can have two GPU's not running in SLi that independently drive monitors.