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    m17x r3 and graphics card

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by joleara, Feb 11, 2012.

  1. joleara

    joleara Notebook Guru

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    how do you/ can you switch between the dedicated 580 and if there is one the itegrated w/e one it is. obviously this is so i can save battery when not needing it in full gaming mode. ps how do i know which graphics card the laptop has booted with.

    thanks James
     
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    so you have a 580 on a non 3d screen, if so optimus will optimize the switching...so there will be no way to figure out which GPU is in play.... perhaps you could use GPUZ and find out at a given time, what GPU is being used....also you could try and put your power settings down to the bare minimum and it "may" force to use your IGPU "more" than the dGPU
     
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    joleara Notebook Guru

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    are you sure there is no way like i have the option of switching with function f7 but i dont really see the change and wanna know what graphics card so i can optimize gaming with the 580 and battery with the intel
     
    joleara, Feb 15, 2012
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    The best method is to whitelist the games you would like in the nvidia control panel to use the "High performance" card. Otherwise, most of them by default will use the integrated gpu.
     
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    how do u do that exactly man as like u ive got th 580 and wud rather always use the 580 for everything unless i am trying to minimilse battery degredation
     
    joleara, Feb 15, 2012
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