@aurynn@cloudisland.nz I haven't done numbers, but running two 4K monitors definitely feels like it hurts the laptop's performance in big way.
@aly@mastodon.nz Okay so I understand all that about a mux, and that makes sense.
But afaik you can force Windows to use the accelerated card for everything? Like there's hardware GPU scheduling setting, and the power profile stuff as well? So this ... should be able to force Windows to not be quite so bad.
@aurynn@cloudisland.nz If you can tell me how to do that that would be great. I have tried, I promise.
@aurynn@cloudisland.nz It's kind of a deep rabbit hole, see e.g.
https://dchambers.github.io/articles/driving-multiple-monitors-on-an-optimus-laptop/
@aurynn@cloudisland.nz Additionally, this is a problem that money solves fairly easily. Alas...
@aly@mastodon.nz Money solves many things, alas...
Trying to find the setting I remember for you now. Wouldn't surprise me if it got removed and you need something like gpedit to bring it back...
@aly@mastodon.nz okay I'm feeling quite gaslit by Windows right now because I am dead certain I remember settings like forcing the high-performance GPU to be enabled at all times, and I can't find it. I also can't find this hardware-accelerated graphics scheduling setting that's supposed to exist in Windows.
I might need to use a second GPU to find this.
In any case, the high performance power plan is where I remember being able to force the good GPU?
Or the nvidia control panel?
@aurynn@cloudisland.nz "feeling gaslit by Windows" is familiar. Part of why I want off it. :/
@aly@mastodon.nz I do not blame you there. I'm sorry, that's very frustrating.
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