Wildstar... thanks for your response.. however as an Octane, user, which I am as well, you do appreciate the feature of being able to select which gpu card for Octane to use, without having to move the cards around or reattaching monitors to the cards... that, I think, is the way iClone should work.. have the option in the preferences for you to select which graphics card to use for realtime rendering.  Currently that's not the case within IC7 ~ I think it would be a lot easier if that were made possible so users don't have to keep switching monitors onto different cards... 

i have 2 workstations with 3 gpus each ( i am a octane render user )
1 gtx 1070, 2 gtx 780 ti. 
just put your 1070 in your first slot ( and use it to display your desktop in your monitor) and done iclone use your 1070

Thanks Peter, I think a video tutorial would be so helpful for other users who might experiencing what I am going through... like how to setup your machine so that iClone can take advantage of Multiple graphics cards. 

If your system is setup for graphics card switching you should see something similar to the option below. It may be that you don't have this option (especially if you are using a homebuilt system). In this case you might need to make the change in your BIOS settings to ensure the 1070 is the default graphic card. Do also check you are using the latest graphics drivers directly from Nvidia. If you are using OEM drivers then you may not have these options.




                                                                

Peter
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www.reallusion.com

R-click on an open space of your desktop, not on an icon. :)

Hi Peter, thanks for the response ~ this suggestion "simply right clicking the iClone 7 desktop icon and choose "Run With Graphics Processor" is not available on my machine.. I am using Win 10 ~ I have tried adjusting the Ndvidia settings but to no avail, IC7 still doesn't use the 1070 that I have assigned to it, it defaults to the 640 which has both my monitors attached to it.

When I render using Octane both in Maya and Max, I can freely choose the different gpu cards and they are correctly used, so the issue seems to be with iClone 7. 

iClone will use the graphic card set in the Nvidia Control Panel. It  doesn't ignore this setting so maybe something is not right in the Nvidia 3D Settings. Have you tried simply right clicking the iClone 7 desktop icon and choose "Run With Graphics Processor" and then select the 1070?


                                                                

Peter
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www.reallusion.com

I shouldn't have to do that. Other  programs simply offer you the option to select the GPU card to use if you have multiple cards. 

Is there a preference order in the BIOS that you can set or elsewhere? 

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