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    Firefox with nvidia gpu

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Kacy, Oct 31, 2010.

  1. Kacy

    Kacy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Anyone knows how to exec firefox with nvidia processor? I whitelisted it, even rightclicked on firefox.exe and 'run with ... high performance processor' but it's not working. any ideas?
     
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    slickie88 Master of Puppets

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    Are you really asking about how to force the 335 for Flash and other formats of streaming video? If so then you need to white-list "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\plugin-container.exe". Although if that is what you're trying to achieve, then I don't see the point. The Intel IGP has no problem accelerating streaming video.
     
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    headphones989 Notebook Consultant

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    while the intel is pretty good, it doesn't quite cut it with hd videos that are being played in hd, at least for me. it jumps only a bit at first, and then a lot (it started happening more after i updated to the latest version, i think... but it's ok, if i turn off hd it's pretty smooth... but for some movies or streams, i would prefer to have nice graphics)
     
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  4. Kacy

    Kacy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Playing quake live with intel graphics would be suicidal.

    Thanks for your answer
     
    Kacy, Nov 1, 2010
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