Friends don't let friends buy laptops with nvidia GPUs. I can't believe optimus is still such a mess.

This could also have happened on a laptop with a discrete AMD GPU and SmartAccess MUX, this time it’s not really an Nvidia fault.

	▲	hnuser123456 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		I got an HP Pavilion laptop in 2011 with an intel i5-2540m, I believe, and a Radeon 6750 or thereabouts. For the first year I owned it, GPU switching was utterly broken and the dedicated GPU was basically dead silicon. Sometime in 2012, they released an updated BIOS that allowed changing the GPU switch logic from "dynamic" to "fixed dedicated", and that allowed you to actually use the builtin dGPU. That being said, the documented issue in TFA arises specifically when trying to exclusively use the dGPU...

jonathanlydall 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When we're buying work laptops, them not having discrete GPUs is a feature I insist on.

On the (these days) very rare occasion I game, I have a desktop.

vient 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The problem here is not with Optimus though.