Disabling Optimus Advantages?

Hi all,

I have been playing Titanfall and getting annoyed at the fact it runs at an acceptable frame rate but there is a horrible amount of screen tearing. Enabling v-sync no matter what the game always seems to make things stuttery (why is this by the way?)

I read about adaptive v-sync but it was not an option in my NVIDIA control panel so I found out that you need to disable Optimus for this option to show. Since doing this and enabling adaptive v-sync Titanfall has become way better to play with no screen tearing. Are there any other advantages to not having Optimus enabled? I know the disadvantages such as battery life etc. but since it is plugged in pretty much all the time that doesn't really matter.

Thanks!

 

Battery life.. thats really it, my 17 with the 120hz 3d screen will only last 2 hours max on battery

 

This is pure theory since i haven't received my AW yet. This is based on the optimus in my GT 555m which might work differently.

Optimus there was handled by dll injection into every process. This caused that some other programs that used the same method to not work.
For example screen recording software, MSI afterburner onscreen display, game optimizing things like the dark souls patch or skyrim enchancements.

 

The 780m as a sole GPU without the intel integrated graphics is by far superior in everyway, Optimus really allows for load sharing of GPU processes and thus cutting down pwoer consumption and heat build up. Most 17 with optimus will last 5 hours on battery, and without optimus 2 hours,

 

Cool thanks I might just leave it on sole GPU mode then