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    Toaster.exe + Nvidia?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by concat, Oct 3, 2011.

  1. concat

    concat Notebook Consultant

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    Everytime I connect my laptop to my TV is uses the Nvidia GPU (540m). That's fine, but when I disconnect, the GPU is still running a program called "Toaster.exe"

    is going on? The exe file is being used by Dell Data Safe or the Backup or whatever. I even found the directory and changed the 3D settings to use the Intel chip, but it doesn't matter.

    Why on earth would a background process like this even need graphics processing? And why does it seem to only happen when I connect via HDMI?
     
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    hizzaah Notebook Virtuoso

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    concat Notebook Consultant

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    Well, it is a minor gripe, but I don't want the GPU running when it's only one useless process.

    I'll try that regedit, although it sounds like a different problem. The white list... is that a list of programs that are "okay" to have running while switching graphics? My problem is that I don't want Toaster to use the Nvidia card.

    I still don't even understand what it does and why it needs graphics processing.

    Oh and thank Hizzah.
     
    concat, Oct 4, 2011
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    madmattd Notebook Deity

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    Just add the process to the NVidia Control Panel list and set it to always use the Intel GPU for that process then.
     
    madmattd, Oct 4, 2011
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    Yeah I did that, but it doesn't solve the problem.

    As I said, it only happens after connecting to my TV.
     
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    steakikan Notebook Consultant

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    Just disable toaster on start-up, it is not that useful anyway.
     
    steakikan, Oct 4, 2011
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