1 Introduction
Lucid VIRTU solution is designed for Intel Sandy Bridge platform with Intel Processor Graphics enabled. VIRTU
dynamically assigns tasks to best available graphics resource based on power, performance and features. There is
no need for HW or HW changes.
VIRTU allows user to fully utilize the unique capabilities of the Intel’s advanced media features on Sandy Bridge
along with the high end 3D rendering performance provided by the discrete GPU installed in the system.
When no high end graphics is used and display is connected to integrated GPU, the discrete GPU is put in idle
mode thus GPU utilization, heat, fan speed and power are down to near zero, turning the system to an environment
friendly platform.
* Currently, Lucid VIRTU solution is supported under Windows 7 / 7 64-bit OS only.
2 Hardware and software specifications
2.1 Hardware specifications
In order to run the Lucid VIRTU solution, the following hardware is required:
Item
Configuration/features
Motherboard
Any Intel Sandy Bridge based platform with integrated onboard display output
CPU
Intel Sandy Bridge Dual/Quad Core CPU
Chipset
Intel Sandy Bridge H67/H61/Z68
Discrete GPU
AMD HD 5xxx/6xxx series
Nvidia GF 4xx/5xx series
RAM
At least 2GB
2.2 Software specifications
Item
Configuration/features
OS
Windows 7 32 bit
Windows 7 64 bit
APIs
DirectX 9
DirectX 10/10.1
DirectX 11
GPU drivers
Intel – any WHQL driver
Nvidia – any WHQL driver
AMD– any WHQL driver
