Nvidia Optimus Mode

Use the following steps to adjust graphics processor preferences.

Nvidia optimus mode. Right click on the desktop and select nvidia control panel. Updating your graphics drivers may solve problems with optimus some laptops may have an led that lights up when the nvidia graphics is in use so you can see whether the battery draining nvidia graphics is running. For example internet explorer will use the integrated graphics card as it does not require heavy video processing however if you open and run a game the discrete card will take over all the work. The intel integrated gpu drives the display panel.

Nvidia optimus technology allows your computer to automatically switch between the integrated graphics processing unit gpu and the nvidia gpu. Nvidia gpu only activates when you open supported games or you manually assign it to special program like adobe suite in nvidia control panel. Optimus programming guide last updated july 2012. In effect the igp is only being used as a simple display controller resulting in a seamless flicker free experience with no need to reboot.

Using nvidia s optimus technology when the discrete gpu is handling all the rendering duties the final image output to the display is still handled by the intel integrated graphics processor igp. The switching is done in their software rog gaming software which seems to be using some model specific method s to switch between optimus mode and discrete gpu mode requiring a reboot. What do you mean. This document describes the methods that can be used by applications to enable and expose an nvidia high performance graphics processor for rendering in an optimus configuration.

Configuring nvidia optimus default settings auto select by default the nvidia driver will determine which video card will be used depending on the aplication for example internet explorer will use the integrated graphics card as it does not require heavy video processing but if you open a game the discrete card will take over and do all the work. You can manually adjust these settings to change which gpu is used. Default setting the nvidia driver will determine which graphic card would be used depending on the application. Nvidia gpu is off by default and does not drive the display.