WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATsubsidiary of Atari
Hahahahahahahahahahaha, the fun of playing games on laptops! You're bringing me back in the 2000s, when I worked for a freelance software testing company that had nVidia as one of our clients. Oh gawd the laptop testing, and the endless hassle of dealing with dGPU vs iGPU. Especially if it's an nVidia GPU, cuz then we're also dealing with Optimus shenanigans. Now imagine dealing with all this using alpha and beta drivers.but spent almost the same amount of time troubleshooting why VULKAN kept picking the iGPU instead of its dGPU
Valuable test data!Credit to the iGPU though, still managed 15-25 FPS at 1440p.
Ah, well there we go.Turned out I had to go into NVCP and towards the bottom of the settings there's an option for picking which GPU handles OpenCL and once I switched that to the dGPU I was getting a solid 250 FPS (max the laptop display will allow).
Yep, you can never take for granted when that gremlin will pop its head up but it's been a while and after checking OS settings I was stumped and even started googling to see if the devs screwed something up but day 1 yields nothing for that. I had actually updated the NV drivers for the heck of it which will lead into another story I'll be posting for tomorrow but while changing some of the settings I always do after a new driver update I came across the OpenCL setting, blind luck actually.hassle of dealing with dGPU vs iGPU.
Yeah, I can honestly say I'm not a fan. I don't know about anyone else but I've learned to turn it off after experiencing freaky delays in just getting a game to launch. While doing my research I found a post suggesting just disabling the iGPU but when I did that it got rid of HDR, G-Sync, and I think also limited to 60 Hz so no matter what, Windows/Intel has designed things that you have to use iGPU to at least do a handoff to the dGPU. May not been the same for all folks out there but that's what I saw with my laptop so iGPU stays but at least everything is switched to dGPU in terms of settings.also dealing with Optimus shenanigans.
How heartwarming it is to see that Optimus hasn't changed much since the late 2000s!I don't know about anyone else but I've learned to turn it off after experiencing freaky delays in just getting a game to launch.
Woooooow. Like I said, bringing me back to those old days of QA testing nVidia's sh1t.While doing my research I found a post suggesting just disabling the iGPU but when I did that it got rid of HDR, G-Sync, and I think also limited to 60 Hz so no matter what, Windows/Intel has designed things that you have to use iGPU to at least do a handoff to the dGPU.
And that makes sense, and is part of the versatility of having a dGPU and an iGPU.I do admit that occasionally if all I'm doing is web surfing or basic junk, I'll turn off dGPU so I can unplug and prolong the battery life. It can also play some non-demanding tabletop style games as well at 1440p for about an hour or two.