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    Should I enable Lucid Universal Virtu MVP on my MSI Z77A-GD55 - what will it do?

    I have an i5 3570K running on a MSI Z77A-GD55 motherboard with a XFX 6870 graphics card. In the bios is the option to enable ' Lucid Universal Virtu MVP' but I can't work out whether this would help. I have Googled it but I am still not clear if it would improve my gaming or anything else (if I don't care about power consumption) or noise (even when gaming my case is near silent). Does anyone have any experience of using this?

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    Re: Should I enable Lucid Universal Virtu MVP on my MSI Z77A-GD55 - what will it do?

    I think I read a review on this on another forum and basically it helped fps by a tiny margin, used more power and was a pain to set up.

    It should not increase noise it is part of the CPU so gets cooled by the same heatsink.

    Give it a try, run some benchmarks with and without it and post up your results. If you could not find the answers to your questions maybe it will help someone else's in the future :-)

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    Re: Should I enable Lucid Universal Virtu MVP on my MSI Z77A-GD55 - what will it do?

    Quote Originally Posted by bluepumpkin View Post
    Does anyone have any experience of using this?
    Played around with it a little on my Gigabyte 77z board paired with a 7970 over the long weekend. If your FPS is generally over the Vsync of your monitor then it can make things smoother by freeing up the GPU to only process frames it needs to. The minimum frame rate can improve usually making the gaming experience feeling smoother and more consistent. The other positive is that it’s meant to increase responsiveness of your IO since it’s processing at the higher FPS but not wasting resources (over)drawing the screen.

    When the FPS in SWTOR was higher than 60 it felt nice. However, and this is a big negative that ultimately made me deactivate it, if the FPS is lower than the Vsync you usually experience a drop in FPS. This could be due to lack of current proper support in the Virtu software for the SWTOR title though. Based on the articles I’ve read on the Net it’s not really worth having if your gaming experience results in FPS under the Vsync but can be of benefit if it’s usually or consistently over.

    Installation tip: Set the IGP (integrated graphics processor) in the BIOS to Enabled/On before trying to install the OS drivers. This should make the process very easy. The default is often Auto which is when people often encounter problems.

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    Re: Should I enable Lucid Universal Virtu MVP on my MSI Z77A-GD55 - what will it do?

    ^^ very useful post that :-)

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    Re: Should I enable Lucid Universal Virtu MVP on my MSI Z77A-GD55 - what will it do?

    Thanks 'Bugbait', great post. I had a very quick play with synthetic benchmarks and they all look much better, my 3dMark and Vantage scores increased a lot BUT I have read more on this and these numbers mean nothing (so i won't post them) because they both count the dropped frames giving an artificially high FPS (worth remaindering next time your make post some ludicrously high figures).
    Most of my games run above 60 so I will try it out and post my feedback when i get a chance

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    Re: Should I enable Lucid Universal Virtu MVP on my MSI Z77A-GD55 - what will it do?

    Quote Originally Posted by bluepumpkin View Post
    Thanks 'Bugbait', great post. I had a very quick play with synthetic benchmarks and they all look much better, my 3dMark and Vantage scores increased a lot BUT I have read more on this and these numbers mean nothing (so i won't post them) because they both count the dropped frames giving an artificially high FPS (worth remaindering next time your make post some ludicrously high figures).
    Most of my games run above 60 so I will try it out and post my feedback when i get a chance
    Correct, don't worry about the numbers and just go by what your experience since that is ultimately want matters, ePeen aside .

    Just note that not all games may run better. After further testing with SWTOR it seems that on the 7970 I'm far better off simply disabling Vsync in the client and keeping Virtu MVP off. This results in consistent 60+ FPS capping at around 120 odd and offers a superior gaming experience. Lucid did mention that they are validating games at the moment and the current version lacking a profile may be part of the issue. Best just to test and see since you can very easily configure Virtu MVP on/off state per game title.

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