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I did worry that this might be the case. It doesn't seem logical to me that there's no way to do this, but it certainly is believable. I think I can get it to work the way I want in some games where you can pick the GPU, but most other applications just seem to default to the primary GPU. I think there are other workarounds I could try like, I could have my second monitor just be a whole new VM running natively on the second GPU, but that probably wouldn't be a great user experience. I think the best option is probably to just replace both cards with a single more powerful card.

I did consider that before I did anything. But when I'm getting slowdowns in game, it is the GPU hitting 100% and the CPU is nowhere near that. And the frame rate drop in games on my primary monitor is easily spotted when I start and stop videos playing on my second monitor. I don't know if there's an easy way to do what I want - but I am aware that it may not even help since performance can be hit by more than just availability of computing power.

Class actions wouldn't apply here - I'm no lawyer, but my understanding is that the act only allows a form of class action for cases of anti-competitive behaviour, not for compensation for a failure to provide services like this. There is going to be some kind of compensation offer from O2 for consumers - they aren't legally obligated to do anything like they are for their government and large business contracts, but they'd be pretty stupid to do nothing considering the bad PR. But it's unlikely to be much, probably some percentage of the month's bill back (though, from what I gather if this were a class action in the US the customers also wouldn't stand to make much out of it). If you suffered larger actual losses than just being without service you can make a claim under the consumer rights act but that would have to be for verifiable material losses, and substantiated with evidence - For example if a plumber had to cancel a job they were hired to do because they couldn't get in contact, you can probably claim for the cost of that lost work. But if it is about potential losses, that's a lot dicier - For example the same plumber who had no scheduled work for the day but would expect to get a job in that time but can't prove they actually missed out on a job because there's no record of the call out they didn't receive. There may be other avenues for a claim, but I'm no lawyer so I can't comment on that, but unless there is a serious consequence as a result of the outage I don't think there's a huge scope for a useful lawsuit. I imagine that anyone who has to upgrade in the next few months have an extra arrow in their quiver if they want to negotiate a good deal on an upgrade. And I don't envy anyone who has to take calls or work in stores - Christmas is always a busy period, it's only going to get harder when you add a lot of customers that are already upset or angry. Disclaimer - I do work for O2, but I can't comment on anything for the company, I have to leave that to the PR people - these are just my own views.

Hi All, I'm struggling with this a little. I assumed that if you had two different GPUs and connected them to two different Monitors then you would be able to use each GPU to run a different progarm on the different monitor. But that doesn't seem to be the case. I thought by adding an AMD GPU connected to my second monitor then if I was watching Netflix on that screen then it would render on the AMD card, and then my Nvidia card wouldn't have as much trouble rendering a game on my primary monitor. But that doesn't seem to be the case - everything seems to get rendered on whatever my primary display adapter is. This makes my multi GPU set up rather pointless, so is there any way I can make them share the load? Also, would it be easier if they were both the same brand? Like, if I had both Nvidia cards would I be able to manage that through the Nvidia control panel, or would I still have the same issue? Other topics seem to imply that if both monitors are connected to different adapters, then if a window is all on a screen then that GPU will render it, but info in task manager and GPU utilisation indicates that no matter what, the primary GPU renders everything. Is there a way to do this, or have I just wasted time and money putting a second card into my PC? Thanks.