Hey all,
I'm wondering about whether the optimus affects general use or if it's very efficient. I've heard from some people that there are a few problems with it such as not kicking in the dedicated graphics card when it's needed. What are your opinions of the optimus? Has it served you well or is it not a perfect system?
Thanks!
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I have had no issues on my M11x r2. It works very seamlessly and you can allocate the graphics options for individual programmes using the Nvidia graphics options.
Failing that you can right click on the programme and select it to run with the Nvidia graphics.
Once you set-up the list of which programmes you want runnning with what graphics option it works very well.
I believe there are some issues with punkbuster etc.. but others may be able to clarify as I am not a big gamer.
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Optimus sometimes do not work with old games, I had problem with Warcraft III. Force it running in opengl solved the problem.
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Can you force an application to use the IGP? I know you could leave it off the whitelist, but assuming that application works as it's supposed to with Optimus, the NVIDIA GPU would kick in when needed.
Ideally I'd have two installs of a browser, one forced to IGP, the other running as normal. -
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Thanks for some headsup
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What if you wanted to keep the NVIDIA chip off? Ex. what if just felt like going old school and playing Half-Life OpenGL on the Intel graphics? or just wanted to see how HL2 would run on the Intel graphics for battery life?
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Yep. Just right click it and select run with integrated graphics.
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Oh sweet, thanks
Nvidia Optimus
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