Nvidia Optimus Turn Off

Or here s the way to turn off discrete nvidia graphics card.

Nvidia optimus turn off. With this mehod it will make the gpu you have chosen to work most of the time. September 14th at 12 48pm. You can do the same under nvidia control panel for each application profile to keep those settings. The best thing you can do is go to nvidia control panel 3d settings and as preferred graphics processor to choose intel or nvidia.

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. If you have two graphics card an integrated intel graphics card and a discrete nvidia card you can use bumblebee to make this nvidia optimus enabled laptop work in gnu linux system. Just right click the app game and run with graphics processor high performance nvidia processor which should be default anyways. Here are screen shots to help show my problem.

Bbswitch is a kernel. For now nvidia optimus doesn t support linux system. 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. In the nvidia control panel i have added all of my games to the custom setting list and chose high performance nvidia gpu from the drop down list but the card still wont turn on.

Configure nvidia optimus default setting the nvidia driver will determine which graphic card would be used depending on the application. Hr here is the gpu configuration and the optimus status showing the gtx card is off which is normally shows. Nvidia optimus also gives you the option to run with whatever graphics processor you want.