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8Eggar8
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I Currently have 2 GTX-260 Cards and an 'on board' nforce 980a/780a with a system running 2 23" monitors (Left 'Primary' Right 'Secondary'). If I have my primary monitor hook-up going to my slot 1 GTX-260 and my secondary monitor hooked up to my 'On Board' and run Octane Showing on my Primary and I activate the render VP it shuts down every time. Both cards are added to the device manager and the on board is left alone. All works fine when both hook-ups are connected to the cards, but I'm just curious if any future builds would accomodate outside applications to run unhindered (on the board hook-up monitor) while leaving the other primary GTX-260 hooked up monitor displaying the active process of Octane's rendering. So far I'm not able to achieve this while both monitors are hooked up to the tasked 260's, but it's the only way so far that I can keep Octane running.

Thank You for any Insights
MSI NF980-G65 AM3 NVIDIA nForce 980a AMD Motherboard - AMD Athlon II X4 620 (Overclocked to 3.2ghz)
(2)GTX460's, (1)BFG gtx260, OCZ 60GB SSD, KINGWIN 1000W Power, HAF 932 Full Tower, XP64
Octane V1 - 2.46 - CUDA 4.11 - OBJ's from Rhino4
havensole
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Probably having the displays coming from multiple gpu's is the issue. Crossing over to different gpu's (onboard and gtx260) creates a lot of odd things when we're talking about cutting edge gpu tech.
System 1: EVGA gtx470 1280Mb and MSI gtx470 1280 in Cubix Xpander for Octane, AMD 945, 4Gb Ram
All systems are at stock speeds and settings.
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radiance
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Hey,

These are usually driver related and there is'nt much we can do about it right now at the level of octane render.
I'd wait for newer drivers and try those, we're running multi-display setups at our office, but only with connecting one monitor to board one and the other monitor to board 2. this gives us no issues, we can drag octane accross displays while rendering and maximise it across both too.
once you start adding on-board GPUs into the mix the results are very unpredictable.

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8Eggar8
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Thank You Radiance,

For some reason I've had trouble loggin in to my forum account, Probably because I was using my 'at work' profile and mixing up passwords.
MSI NF980-G65 AM3 NVIDIA nForce 980a AMD Motherboard - AMD Athlon II X4 620 (Overclocked to 3.2ghz)
(2)GTX460's, (1)BFG gtx260, OCZ 60GB SSD, KINGWIN 1000W Power, HAF 932 Full Tower, XP64
Octane V1 - 2.46 - CUDA 4.11 - OBJ's from Rhino4
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