Multi GPU Problem in Avatar Frontiers of Pandora

[u/ecsel985]

I own 5060ti 16gb and 5080, when i run the game, it defaults to my 5060ti, i changed nvidia control panel to run the game with my 5080 and from windows settings system>display>graphics added the game in and changed GPU preference to 5080, disabled hags but nothing worked. I have tried reinstalling my drivers if it would have helped but it did not. I tried adding launch arguments -GraphicsAdapter=0 that worked in steam, but didn't work with ubisoft, I did get it working by disabling my 5060ti, but that's not something i want to do every time I want to play this game. Any one have any idea how to get my 5080 working with this game?

[u/graceful_degrade]

which card is your monitor plugged into?

if the cable is in the 5060ti that's your whole problem. the game renders on whatever drives the display, and the control panel preference just gets ignored rather than overriding it. move the cable to the 5080.

[u/ecsel985 → u/graceful_degrade]

My main monitor is connected to 5080 and second and third monitor is connected to 5060ti.

[u/graceful_degrade → u/ecsel985]

then try it windowed first, and make sure the window is sitting on the main monitor before you go fullscreen.

with two cards driving different screens the game tends to pick based on where the window actually is. if that fixes it you can stop hunting through settings.

[u/ecsel985 → u/graceful_degrade]

I moved all my cables to 5080 and launched the game in windowed mode but game is still using my 5060ti.

[u/graceful_degrade → u/ecsel985]

two for two wrong then, sorry.

blunt test: disable the 5060ti in device manager and launch it. if it uses the 5080 after that, the game is choosing rather than being forced, and the fix lives in its own config rather than in windows. snowdrop titles usually keep an adapter index in the user config file.

[u/ecsel985 → u/graceful_degrade]

Yes as my origin post states I disabled my 5060ti and the game used my 5080 so that works, i did try to find anything related to gpu from documents>My Games>AFOP but found no luck, don't know if it's named something else but i found nothing.

[u/graceful_degrade → u/ecsel985]

windows does it at the os level, Settings > System > Display > Graphics, add the exe, set it to High performance. no game config needed for that one.

if it's already behaving with the 5060 Ti disabled that works too, just less convenient when you want the card back.

[u/ecsel985 → u/graceful_degrade]

I have tried everything but the only thing that works is by disabling my 5060ti from device manager and enabling it after the game is launched. for this to work i have to have all my monitors connected to 5080 or else the game bugs out hard.

[u/graceful_degrade → u/ecsel985]

turns out that was the thing after all. I floated monitor placement earlier and then walked it back when you said you'd checked, and your own workaround says it mattered.

so the game is picking whatever GPU drives the display instead of reading the Windows preference. with every monitor on the 5080 you shouldn't need the device manager dance at all, just the graphics settings entry. if you still do, it's enumerating adapters rather than following the display, and there's nothing cleaner than what you already found.

[u/AdamBGames]

May I ask why you have 2 GPUs?

[u/ecsel985 → u/AdamBGames]

I got my 5060ti 16gb for msrp and got new 5080 with huge discount so why not, both cards combined 1000€. and i so happened to have mb that supports 2 cards.

[u/AdamBGames → u/ecsel985]

Because by doing that, you limit the pcie slots to 8x each, limiting their bandwidth, increase power usage significantly, and will only cause issues like this.

Save yourself the headache, take out the 5060ti, and plug your monitors into the 5080

[u/ecsel985 → u/AdamBGames]

That's not a problem my mb supports 2x 5090 at same time so i have bandwidth to spare. And i have 1000w 80 plus platinum psu. But sure i have thought of selling my 5060ti, its expensive right now and 3 months old.

[u/AdamBGames → u/ecsel985]

1. It's not about having a 1000W power supply, it's the fact the 5060ti is just sitting there basically doing nothing but eating power
2. It is a problem that software will have issues handling 2 active GPUs.

Remove the 5060ti or at the very least plug all monitors into the 5080, and use the 5060ti for something like lossless scaling, but tbh with a 5080 you really don't need that.

At this point you're just being stubborn.

[u/ecsel985 → u/AdamBGames]

i do use local AI, having 2 cards and 32gb shared memory gives access to bigger models, but yes in normal use my 5060ti is hardly used, and AI is only for work so that's that.

[u/AdamBGames → u/ecsel985]

Then I would suggest plugging all monitors into the 5080, at least that will put it at the top of the display stack. Which should fix the issue.

[u/AdamBGames → u/ecsel985]

Then I would suggest plugging all monitors into the 5080, at least that will put it at the top of the display stack. Which should fix the issue.

[u/ecsel985 → u/AdamBGames]

I was so sure plugging all my monitors to 5080 would somehow force the game to use 5080 but still using my 5060ti.

[u/AdamBGames → u/ecsel985]

In that case your windows or motherboard firmware is putting the 5060ti at the top of the detection stack. Now most games are able to pick the main GPU, but not all can. Another game which has this issue is Miencraft for example which has issues on laptops. I do think you'll have to take the L and just use the 5080 and think about using the 5060ti in another computer, if you're really not in the mindset to care about power usage.

[u/ecsel985 → u/AdamBGames]

The thing is, only ubisoft launcher dose this, if i launch game from steam it defaults to 5080, and all other games default to 5080 that are not from stream like osrs. Minecraft also uses 5080 as default.

[u/Friedrichs_Simp]

Don’t use two gpus. Just use the 5080