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Optimus is a new technology introduced to cover a machine which uses both integrated graphics and a graphics card. In linux machines it must be configured using bumblebee.service.

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Forcing NVIDIA GPU programmatically in Optimus laptops

I'm programming a DirectX game, and when I run it on an Optimus laptop the Intel GPU is used, resulting in horrible performance. If I force the NVIDIA GPU using the context menu or by renaming my executable to bf3.exe or some other famous game…
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Resigning system.img on a device

I am working on an automatic app updating solution for devices (LG p509 - Optimus 1) which we deploy to our customers. We have control of these devices and currently install a custom kernel on them (but not a full custom ROM). Since we are trying to…
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Forcing hardware accelerated rendering

I have an OpenGL library written in c++ that is used from a C# application using C++/CLI adapters. My problem is that if the application is used on laptops with Nvidia Optimus technology the application will not use the hardware acceleration and…
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Optimus headless browser with C#

Can somebody tell me how to use Optimus (headless browser) nuget package with C# to get response from a URL. I also want javascript on the page to be executed automatically like phantomjs.
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Per-monitor DPI-Aware: black window glitch with NVIDIA Optimus

I would like to make a Per-Monitor DPI-Aware Direct2D application. I have extended Microsoft's "First Direct2D Program" example to handle WM_DPICHANGED as explained in Kenny Kerr's MSDN article. This works when both monitors use one video card, but…
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How can I check which Version of OpenGL is supported on a linux system with optirun?

I have had a lot of problems / confusion setting up my laptop to work for OpenGL programming / the running of OpenGL programs. My laptop has one of these very clever (too clever for me) designs where the Intel CPU has a graphics processor on chip,…
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GPU benchmark for nvidia Optimus cards

I need a GPGPU benchmark which will load the GPU so that I can measure the parameters like temperature rise, amount of battery drain etc. Basically I want to alert the user when the GPU is using a lot of power than normal use. Hence I need to decide…
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TTS text received & processed but NOT HEARD on LG Optimus S

On one hand, this problem is tough because I have the same exact code working perfectly on 3 different Android 2.2 phones, but not working on an LG Optimus S (runing Android 2.2, too). On the other hand, this problem is reproducible, so there may be…
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How do I tell the Java Invocation Api which java vm to use?

I'm trying to create a launcher for a game I wrote in java using the java invocation api in c++. I'd like it to use the jre folder (from openjdk) that I bundled with the game so that people who don't have Java on their computers can still play the…
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Enable/disable nvidia Optimus programmatically using C++ under Ubuntu amd64

EDIT: This is imo not an exact duplicate, because this question is for a solution spesific to Ubuntu, while the other is for a cross-platform solution. In order to save power it is common in recent graphics architectures to dynamically switch…
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Android Studio / AVD with bumblebee / nvidia optimus

When using a computer with linux and a nvidia optimus graphics card for Android Development, is it possible to tell Intellij / Android Studio to launch the Android Virtual Devices with bumblebee?
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OpenGL shadow mapping weirdness with uniform array

I was trying to run a little game/demo written by a friend of mine for mostly educational purposes, Land of Dreams. I noticed some extremely strange behaviour on my computer, even though the application was reportedly run successfully on several…
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NVIDIA Optimus card not switching under OpenGL

When I used use "glGetString(GL_VERSION)" and "glGetString(GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION)" to check the OpenGL version on my computer, I got the following information: 3.1.0 - Build 8.15.10.2538 for GL_VERSION 1.40 - Intel Build 8.15.10.2538 for…
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OpenGL 3.3 Two different results on two GPUs nVidia Optimus with Shadow mapping

So i'm working on a project (to both learn and create a game in the future) in C++ and for rendering i've chose OpenGL 3.3. I've been working on Intel HD 4000 built in my processor as it opens default new apps and everything went sweet. But then…
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Weird VGL Notice - [VGL] NOTICE: Pixel format of 2D X server does not match pixel format of Pbuffer. Disabling PBO readback

I'm porting a game that I wrote from Windows to Linux. It uses GLFW and OpenGL. When I run it using optirun, to take advantage of my nVidia Optimus setup, it spits this out to the console: [VGL] NOTICE: Pixel format of 2D X server does not match…
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