I just purchased this laptop GL551JM-DH71, has not yet arrived. What have i gotten myself into?
Question-I must know how to completely disable the intel graphics entirely !
HP has this ability, why not ASUS? Is there a modified BIOS that would accomplish this? This seems
a step backwards in technology, just as Win8. I am going to install Win 7 Ultimate64, and dual boot LinuxMint
because Win8 is unusable, unthemeable, and complete spyware. So back on topic, does anyone have information on how to accomplish this, or shall i start the return process before it even arrives?
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I agree with this post--->*****
Quote from nvidia forum----The whole Geforce forum is repleted with users complaining about their ow...
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I found
this online- ( *For Dell, yet same issue*)
* one of the diagrams in the white paper seems to indicate that the Nvidia card is still capable of doing direct rendering to a screen through it's own frame buffer, without any involvement from the Intel card - so long as the Nvidia card is preferred at a driver level. It looks like the only thing that matters is which card the screen is physically connected to - The nvidia card cannot render directly to a screen that is connected physically to the Intel card. Maybe, with some rework, I can hook up the primary display directly to the nvidia card.
**********Further evidence that this is the case: When I hook up a second monitor to the laptop through the HDMI port, everything on that monitor is rendered with the Nvidia GPU, including desktop compositing.
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*This was pulled from Toms Hardware*I've got a solution for you, but I don't know if you're gonna like it. Optimus is integrated into your windows, so the only way to get rid of it is to reinstall normal Windows 7 version (not the one that came with your laptop; though, the same key will work of course).
Ok, spent the last few (4) hours reinstalling windows 7. This time I got all of the drivers directly from the manufacturers' sites.
My frame rate on Just Cause 2 went from 7fps to a perfect 60fps. Thank you for telling me to reinstall!
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I found this as well
HERE-**it's because nvidia decide to force some programs to runs on intel GPU, some of these forced programs might not works properly on geforce (ie. media players due to a bug in geforce hardware video acceleration such as DXVA2, freezes issue, and other kind of annoying issue which doesn't happened on iGPU) and some of them just to keeps power usage low (helped saves the world from energy crisis a little :D),
they may not force the program later after the issue has been resolved, but right now they just had too many major issues to be resolved first
😉If you want to control these forced programs, you will need to find their profiles using nvidia inspector and delete or modify them
🙂 12-6-2014
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****Does anyone have any luck with these solutions ? How about an ASUS rep chime in here.****
P.S. I posted this on Google+, and Nvidia forums. Maybe some exposure would help move the solution along ?
Quote--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ
(at a hacker meetup in Finland, Torvalds laid into Nvidia, calling it “the single worst company” the Linux developer community has ever dealt with, complaining that the chipmaker doesn’t do as much as it could to ensure that its hardware plays nicely with his open source operating system. He even turned to the camera filming the event, flipped the company the proverbial bird, and dropped the proverbial F bomb.---
“Nvidia, **** you,” he said, as the room erupted with applause and laughter.
Nvidia did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)