• Avid Media Composer

  Two video cards – need assistance please!

  Posted by Patrick Taylor on January 31, 2012 at 3:31 pm

  Hi all.

  Does anyone know if there is a way to force Media Composer 5 to see and use only one of the 2 video cards I have installed?

  I currently have 2 GPU’s running 3 monitors and a Cintiq tablet. This seems to confuse MC as I end up with a narrow Avid main window spanning all 4 monitors, and tool windows that randomly disappear. However, when I unplug 2 of my monitors, and am consequently only using a single video card, everything runs perfectly. Unfortunately this means having to reach behind my computer and unplug 2 monitor cables every time I need to use MC, and that just won’t do.

  Is there a setting I’m not aware of, or a file I could edit, to get MC to only use the single gpu I dictate?

  Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

  -Pat

  Patrick Taylor replied 14 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Hector Berrebi

  January 31, 2012 at 3:53 pm

  are you on a MAC or PC?
  maybe there is a software way, or app that could shut down one of your video cards.

  also..

  read here

  https://community.avid.com/forums/p/95165/544450.aspx

  hector

  Hector Berrebi
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  Patrick Taylor

  January 31, 2012 at 4:16 pm

  Heya Hector.

  Thanks for the super quick response.

  Excellent suggestion. I gave it a try by going thru the device manager and simply disabling the Intel Graphics, then booted up MC, and it works great! So, Thank you thank you. Don’t know why I didn’t think of this myself, but at least one of us did! Would still like to be able to use all 3 of my main monitors while editing, but at least this solution is far more elegant than actually removing 2 cables from the back of my puter every time I want to edit.

  Hmmm. I wonder if there’s a way to automate the disabling of the Intel Graphics upon startup of MC? Hmmmm.

  Thanks again!

  -Pat

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