How to tell if i have nvidia optimus Videos

Can I do something like this in my Inspiron 15R with a AMD Radeon?

@kacperek212 you have to install the latest drive , i had the same problem and now it works , this video is proof for getting optimus working ,

@matthewstvartak than you have to look how to use 560GTX , becuase this is nvidia optumas GT540M

gta iv with ice enhancer still starts with intel gpu ;(

@DRAGON696969696969 update control panel....

dude... i love you!!! thanks SOOO much!!

been there done that, it suks

Yes PES works just fine. You just need to use Optimus as shown in the video to permanently lock the Nvidia chipset on for everything. You won't find anything in your bios I'm afraid because you would need to download and install a modified bios to completely disable optimus. Your best source for answers to this stuff is really going to be notebookreview . Good luck dude

i have 2 question 1- on selection game on file there is 2 things one is game luncher and sec is application exe which one i should for working navida on it 2- when i want to play do i have to play it with run on admin or just click on it thank you and i hope you answer as could possible

Have you updated to the latest drivers? The only way to permanently lock the nvidia chipset on and do away with optimus is through a modified bios. You'll have to google around for that one I'm afraid. I would suggest grabbing the latest Nvidia drivers though first.

im totaly unlucky inthis way - in bios i cant find it (i was looking everywhere, but i dont know where's it), and i have nvidia geforce gt 650m, and drivers are only for gt 645m so im sad now ....and have you tried max payne 3 or pro evolution soccer 12 pls?

nice vid man, but optimus is totaly shit, i cant run max payne 3 with nvidia till now, only with intel hd, and it's shit.....so how can i disable intel hd, or turn off stupid optimus?......nvidia control panel doesnt work for max payne 3 anyway

@LKTVLeart That's a core 2 duo I think? You probably want to check out notebook review dot com - that sounds like an R1 and there are people on the forums there talking about experiences getting an R1 to run Skyrim.

@LKTVLeart Depends on what processor that is. Speed of the processor is not necessarily the best measurement of performance (a 1.73 Ghz Core i5 for example can humiliate a similar speed Pentium 5).

Damn, it was working like "Godly" for 2 days, and then it suddenly started "detecting" my Nvidia card (GT555M) And it is now lagging a lot in some scenes it didnt use to, even at low!, Help someone.

Don't know what an acculoader is, but yeah, when I'm gaming at home I just leave the NVidia chipset on. I only turn it off if I'm not gaming and specifically want to get more out of the battery.

I tried whitelisting and it works but i accidentally picked intel graphics for skyrim now I tried clicking nividia high performance to replace the intel R famlily crap it's not changing Plz help

so if you just game at home with this laptop and you''re using a acculoader( dunno how its called)you can just set it high performance Nvidia processor and never screw with optimus ever again?

@Irishlad147 It's totally compatible. Steam games are stored (typically) in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common. Find your game, find it's main executable program and whitelist it.

@mrservbot Thanks for the sub mate - Glad the vid helped you out. Really NVidia have to put some more work in to make this system a lot more friendly than it currently is.

@GoldStephano Sorry dude - can't help you. I would suggest looking for an older (say 1 year to 18 months old) gaming machine on eBay or something....? Good luck

So the alienware m11x does support 3d? I tried using the 3d photo examples and it said my computer doesnt support it, im so confused please help

Hello. How do you whitelist a Steam game then? It seems to me that optimus is not compatible with Steam in any shape or form. Please advise

Hey i'm having problem with gta iv on m14x. I tried white listing gta iv but still its using intel graphics according to benchmark test

@kwtblack2 1. depends on the game. For most it would be the app, but hard to say without seeing the game itself. 2. No just run it.

Thank YOU!, Skyrim just went from being Unplayable (5-10 FPS) on Medium on my brand new Comp to around 60FPS on Ultra! Love it! :D

@MHMagician They did patch the game - not sure if that had an effect. I'll look into it later and see if I can find anything.

sir, you are excellent and presenting relatively tech savvy material in a perfectly fluent manner. thanks a ton :D

can i play Skyrim with my Alienware M11x on medium without laggs? some1 told me that i have too low GHz (1.73) :(

@gcm371 you need to whitelist skyrimlauncher.exe. It's in program files (x86)/steam/steamapps/common/skyrim

subbed skyrim was making me mad but then i watched this and BAM all my problems went away thanks! ^w^

@frooglepete do both, save you hassle, i just did it with skyrim and it worked a treat!

+JLT_ TVOh and by the way, my Nvidia Card is a GeForce 820M

+JLT_ TV The thing is that I did everything you told in the video and it still doesn't work. Well, it does work, as in, you can change hl.exe to run in your nvidia but that's all it does, once I launch the game, the game is still run by the intel graphic card and when I go to check the Nvidia settings, hl.exe is AGAIN being run in Intel Graphics and it's greyed out(can't change) again... I still get 100 fps in the Intel Card but I have to play in MINIMAL resolution (640x480) and that sucks and even so it has a few drops when there are too many smokes or too many players in front of me in the server.

By setting "NVIDIA" you will force your gfx to run cs 1.6 on your Dedicated graphic card not the inbuilt.Inorder to do that,you will have to do the steps mentioned in Nvidia Inspector.The settings should be grayed out.If they were not greyed out,why would you try this ?This fix is not for all those facing fps issue on Laptops.This is a specific gfx bug issue.You dont need to do that,if your settings are not grayed out.

Well.. for now it looks like it worked! Thanks mate

thx. This indeed worked.

@NanoFlameSG Same here. Question now is, can you still have the same control even if you didn't want it to go automatic? That is what I'm wondering. I wish there was a tablet convertible version of this. It would be even more epic.

@NanoFlameSG I'm jealous of you... The ability to turn "optimusloadofcrap" off and do it manual to avoid the gazillion problems these cards will give would be so sweet!

Dam I just got my Asus UL80Vt last november with switchable graphics..now I'm so jealous of Optimus ):

NVIDIA rules!!!!!

good !!!!!

owned!!

nice

+vsDarling Ofiko podpora záleží na distribuci. Mě se to povedlo rozběhat jenom v Ubuntu (nastavuje samo, stačí nainstalovat ovladač přes program "Dodatečné ovladače") a v Archu. Arch to má skvěle popsaný na Wiki ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus ), ale po poslední aktualizaci Xorg na verzi 1.18 se to celý nějak změnilo a nejde mi to. Vrátil jsem se tak zpátky na Bumblebee - je to jistota, výkon i tak slušnej a hlavně nedělá zbytečný problémy. Oficiální podpora potřebuje ještě hodně práce, pokud člověk nemá Ubuntu, který to nastaví samo, tak je to peklo se s tim dělat a udržovat to. Musí být nakonfigurovaný xorg.conf a upravený config display manageru (ideální je SDDM, viz Arch wiki), aby celý Xorg přehodil přes Xrandr na jiný výstup. Takže doporučuju spíš Bumblebee, je to ideální - notebook dýl vydrží, míň topí a Steam ty grafiky stejně umí přepínat sám. A v některých hrach (Alien Isolation, Metro Redux apod.) jsem rozdíl ve výkonu nepoznal žádný, spíš je to znát ve starších, třeba Source engine based.

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+Martin Szabó Zkus se podívat sem - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee - a vyzkoušej postup popsanej pro 14.04. Ubuntu jinak standartně (když povolíš v "dodatečné ovladače" nesvobdný Nvidia ovladač) používá ten oficiální způsob kdy vynutí jen jednu kartu, takže pokud se ti nechce dělat se s nějakým nastavováním, jde to i pomocí dvou kliků. Ale jestli trváš na Bumblebee, který má výhodu v tom real-time pepínání, tak viz ten odkaz.

+1XLP thanks for the info. i thaught bumblebee is the better thats why i asked. tanks again. i going to install the official driver

+Levente Nagy Bumblebee on the left side, official support on the right side. Bumblebee looks better in the video of course because Intel took care of recording and Nvidia had only one job (benchmark). On the right side Nvidia had to render both recording+benchmark. Without recording Nvidia's official support is definitely better.