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    Y510P SLI, CS6 owners.

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by cavell219, Dec 5, 2013.

  1. cavell219

    cavell219 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi everyone I know CS6 does not support SLI configurations. But does anyone here get it to work when just removing the ultrabay card?

    Thanks everyone, I can't seem to get straight answers from anyone I ask.
     
    cavell219, Dec 5, 2013
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  2. Jobine

    Jobine Notebook Prophet

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    Even if a program does not support SLI, you won't need to remove the 2nd GPU just to use the program...

    Most of the Adobe Stuff is CPU dependant anyways.
     
    Jobine, Dec 5, 2013
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  3. cavell219

    cavell219 Notebook Evangelist

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    I understand that Adobe is CPU dependent but you can use video acceleration which makes a huge difference in performance.

    Unfortunately with Adobe, if it detects the hardware for an SLI setup, whether it is enabled or not, will cause the program to crash. This is a known problem with CS6 especially premiere. Many users with SLI desktops are forced to remove a card to run CS6 programs.

    Thanks for the reply.
     
    cavell219, Dec 5, 2013
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    DaleCooper Notebook Enthusiast

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    Anyone have any more to add to this? If I get an SLI Y510p will CS6 not work (specifically Photoshop)?
     
    DaleCooper, Jan 30, 2014
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  5. Jobine

    Jobine Notebook Prophet

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    Can anyone with the laptop (or any other SLI rig) just try it out and post results? You can get the Adobe trial for free...

    (i don't have SLI and i use CS5)
     
    Jobine, Jan 30, 2014
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    ibebyi Notebook Enthusiast

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    I don't see any reason why you could not use nvidia inspector to force single card mode at the driver level for each of the Adobe applications.
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