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BIGBEASTISHANK

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[SOLVED] Nvidia Optimus Power Management explain

I dont know anything about nvidia drivers, i installed all the drivers, and I installed the optimus manager it tells me to set powermanagement thinggy to turn off gpu, i am on my laptop, when i switch to nvidia my gpu works and i can play minecraft and csgo in peace. I changed the `dynamic_power_management=fine` and by doing `cat /proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0000:01:00.0/power` it shows Runtime D3 status Disables by default so should i change it to coarse or keep it on fine? I have seen another post on this topic but didnt got anything when the person asked for xorg log https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=265055

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Fijxu

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia Optimus Power Management explain

First of all, what are your exact PC Specs? GPU, What CPU, What integrated GPU it has, etc.

Are you trying to use the nvidia open drivers (nvidia-open package) or closed drivers (nvidia package)?

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BIGBEASTISHANK

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia Optimus Power Management explain

First of all, what are your exact PC Specs? GPU, What CPU, What integrated GPU it has, etc.

Kernal: 6.3.1-arch2-1
DE: Plasma 5.27.5
CPU: Intle I5-8250U
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce MX130
APU: Intel UHD Graphics 620
RAM: 8gb

Are you trying to use the nvidia open drivers (nvidia-open package) or closed drivers (nvidia package)?

`paru -S nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-settings optimus-manager`

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V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia Optimus Power Management explain

MX130 is maxwell which doesn't support the direct runtime power management enabled in the nvidia driver for Turing+ so the literal answer is neither, and you will actually want to look at the further options explained in https://github.com/Askannz/optimus-mana … er-control

BIGBEASTISHANK

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Re: [SOLVED] Nvidia Optimus Power Management explain

It means it dosent matter what i put it will work same, hmmmmm thanks

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