Make second monitor go inactive if mouse doesnt go on it?

MainManiac

When hooking up 2 monitors it increases idle clock speeds by default on nvidia cards. I don't want this idle clock speed increase if im not using the monitor actively. Is there any way I can have it disable when my mouse doesnt move into its region?

JamesWild

I should imagine nVidia's power management should do this automatically. I'm obviously not a hardware/driver developer but I'll be hugely surprised if it's not shutting down cores or something when they're not needed. If it's not, it's likely a configuration problem or some badly designed application sending screen update notifications when nothing has changed.

HardBaller

Can't u just manually change the clock speed of your gpu with an oc setting or something? Like they have in the ati ccc program? If that's an option at all. 6.35am so not that bright yet lolz.

McGreed

There is a magical button you can press, at least in Windows 7 Hold Windows Key and press P, and you can turn your secondary monitor on and off, or dual.

MainManiac

James I looked around but I didn't see it, ill check again when I hook the second monitor up

HardBaller I never knew you could underclock :P

McGreed wow that is a really helpful menu, ill monitor my clock speeds and see if it disables it in the gpu also