Hardware acceleration affected by motherboard?

Richard-Curtis wrote on 10/28/2025, 2:25 PM

Recently I had to replace a faulty ASUS Z490-P motherboard with a Gigabyte H510M board, having chosen the latter due to its compatibility with my existing RAM and CPU. I had a NVidia 1660Ti GPU in the original build, which I transferred to the new one. Previously rendering and playback were acceptably fast (no hesitation on playback in the editing window even with effects; fast rendering).

With the new setup rendering was hopelessly slow and I couldn't get U630 to appear in Movie Settings, only the 1660Ti. Although I tried changing the BIOS settings for the primary GPU I couldn't get the U630 graphics to show up in MEP until I removed the 1660Ti altogether. Now rendering is great, but playback in the editing window stuttery - even with frame rate and effects reduced.

Any ideas short of changing my motherboard to one more accommodating of multiple GPUs?

Thanks

Richard

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johnebaker wrote on 10/28/2025, 3:19 PM

@Richard-Curtis

Did you enable the Intel UHD 630 in the BIOS, Chipset, or Settings menu (?), and change the Internal Graphics option to Enabled? Following a restart of the computer both GPUs should be available.

If left on Auto then it will be disabled by the NV gpu.

John EB
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Richard-Curtis wrote on 10/29/2025, 1:30 PM

Thank you for your reply, John. Belatedly I see what you mean about the chipset settings - they're in the BIOS.

Anyway, I removed the 1660Ti and then reinstalled it, and now all of a sudden MEP can see both GPUs: the performance is now much better - so problem over, I trust.

Thanks again...

Richard

johnebaker wrote on 10/29/2025, 3:34 PM

@Richard-Curtis

Thanks for the feedback, pleased to hear that you now have both GPU's available.

John EB