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    L502x, Chrome, and Optimus

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by supertoast92, Aug 26, 2012.

  1. supertoast92

    supertoast92 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi guys, it's hard for me to find a solution to this question online (at least one that's rather up-to-date). I was wondering if anyone else was noticing this rather annoying quirk:

    Chrome's embedded flash player seems to use the dedicated GT540m GPU rather than integrated, like the Firefox plugin. I was wondering if there's a fix I'm missing for this? I already disabled hardware acceleration in flash, as well as disabling what I could find in the flags.

    Thanks!
     
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    Quix Omega Notebook Evangelist

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    Go into the Nvidia control panel and set it to run Chrome.exe on the integrated graphics processor, this worked for me on a L521x.
     
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    supertoast92 Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks for the reply, but no luck unfortunately. Chrome itself runs on integrated graphics, but whenever I play a YouTube video, the graphics card kicks in. Hmm...
     
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