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x_user

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Registered: 2015-03-13

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Intel and Nvidia graphics - set which one support choosen game.

Hello,

On some game forum one guy tell me i can set which one - intel or nvidia graphics support my choosen game, cuz i have intel processor and intel motherboard but also i have nvidia geforce 550ti graphics card, and my question is: Can i choose what graphics intel or nvidia support my choosen game ?

dragonn

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Re: Intel and Nvidia graphics - set which one support choosen game.

It is a regular desktop yes? So no you can not, mostly motherboards disables the iGPU when a dGPU is present. On my I can enable it, but this would need to switch the monitor cable to the iGPU and run something like bumblebee to make a bridge between the Nvidia and Intel GPU. And I am not sure if this is possible on regular desktop.

x_user

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Re: Intel and Nvidia graphics - set which one support choosen game.

Sorry, post for delete

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x_user

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Re: Intel and Nvidia graphics - set which one support choosen game.

I read man nouveau, and there no my graphics card... im using geforce gtx 550ti, and dont see that model in man nouveau, what im supossed to do now ?

Xabre

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Registered: 2009-03-19

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Re: Intel and Nvidia graphics - set which one support choosen game.

If you're goal is gaming, Nvidia propriatery driver is what you need. Nouveau and gaming is equal to masochism.
But do read what dragonn wrote: if it's a desktop, you have but a few options.

x_user

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Re: Intel and Nvidia graphics - set which one support choosen game.

nope its not a masochism, game what i want have really very very very low requiements. But performance and all its that same with driver and that same when i remove driver, so i think driver dont work, help me to enable nouveau driver with greforcee gtx 550ti with 3d game, please.

PootisBird

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Re: Intel and Nvidia graphics - set which one support choosen game.

I've got same GPU. Nouveau gives me only ~20% performance of blob. Since Nvidia started to support buffer age extension there is no reason to not use their drivers, maybe for wayland but it's still not there.
You will have no gain by enabling optimus with this GPU, it will not get disabled when unused, it's old Fermi architecture, not most efficient of them all.

To use nouveau simply install xf86-video-nouveau and mesa-libgl and restart. Proprietary driver is under nvidia and nvidia-libgl.

Anyway: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau

Last edited by PootisBird (2015-04-09 20:25:09)

x_user

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Re: Intel and Nvidia graphics - set which one support choosen game.

Yes i have  xf86-video-nouveau and mesa-libgl but performance for game what require only GeForce FX series is really bad, but maybe that model of graphics card is not best for open drivers, maybe this is the point.

PootisBird

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Re: Intel and Nvidia graphics - set which one support choosen game.

Yes i have  xf86-video-nouveau and mesa-libgl but performance for game what require only GeForce FX series is really bad, but maybe that model of graphics card is not best for open drivers, maybe this is the point.

There's no reclocking for this card currently.
Nouveau runs it locked at 405 MHz GPU clock, 648 MHz memory clock, 810 MHz processor clock.
Nvidia can run it at 3 perf levels:

    GPU Clock    Memory Clock    Processor Clock
0    50 MHz          270 MHz             101 MHz
1    405 MHz        648 MHz             810 MHz
2    900 MHz      4104 MHz           1800 MHz