Hi,
I’m one of the lucky few that got multiple GPUs in my desktop.
Now, I can tell it’s doing hardware decoding and encoding when I play stuff on my TV, but it seems to encode really slow.
How can I tell what GPU it’s using for hardware acceleration? How can I force it to use 1 faster GPU and not the slower one?
Hopefully anyone knows.
Rex
GPUs not the same. You might be using the “Slower one” for everything. GPUs must be the same and SLI’d to work together…
Better transcoding you will have to SLI
2 different cards wont sli together.
2 different wont work together like your thinking they are.
@MisterRex This link can help you tinker with it.
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/295658/hardware-acceleration-multi-gpu.
@BoogerMonster I noticed you mentioned that 2 different cards won’t work like he may think? Have you had a chance to test this?
I found out that the trick is to change the NVIDIA settings and force the Plex directory to use my faster GPU.
How did you force plex to use a different gpu?
I’ve tried doing this but plex will always default to what gpu is being used for the primary display.
I did it from within the nvidia application. Both my GPUs are from NVIDIA. There is an option somewhere in the settings to choose the exe file (transcoder.exe) and then force 1 or multiple GPUs to be ran.
Thank you, I’ll give it a try
ok I tried the nvidia patch for windows and no luck, plex stops all playback at 3 streams being transcoded.
also my optimize feature in plex no longer works.
wish a dev would chime in about the ability to add multiple gpus before i purchase one.
