Nvidia Optimus Use Only Nvidia

Nvidia optimus technology intelligently optimizes your notebook pc providing the outstanding graphics performance you need when you need it all the while extending battery life for longer enjoyment.

Nvidia optimus use only nvidia. Here is the only time that the optimus status shows on when i am looking at an nvidia 3d image and finally this is how i am configuring all of my games but they are still not utilizing the gpu. Nvidia s optimus technology has come a long way in the last few years and is very polished. Use only discrete gpu optimus just installed gentoo x11 i3 and nvidia drivers on my laptop. 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.

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. Installing the nvidia driver on an optimus laptop the driver may be installed normally on optimus systems but the nvidia x driver and the nvidia opengl driver may not be able to display to the laptop s internal display panel unless a means to connect the panel to the nvidia gpu for example a hardware multiplexer or mux often controllable by a bios setting is available. I also use arch so i tried to use my old config file to disable intel gpu to use nvidia s one only didn t work. Bumblebee nvidia nvidia prime nvidia optimus prime nouveau proper linux way tm bumblebee and optimus prime allow you to use the intel gpu most of the time but to offload 3d rendering to the nvidia gpu on a per program basis and nvidia prime allows you to switch which gpu is active but using software muxing rather than hardware muxing.

Optimus programming guide last updated july 2012.