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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

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.

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.

Radiance

Thank You Radiance,

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