[osg-users] Selecting a GPU to be used in a dual-GPU laptop

Trajce Nikolov NICK trajce.nikolov.nick at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 14:12:09 PDT 2018


I owned laptop with same configuration and obviously the Radeon driver
software kit (or how it is called) comes with an app where you select the
card per app. You select your app in this Radeon app and it will run on the
selected device

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 9:09 PM Chris Hanson <xenon at alphapixel.com> wrote:

> I believe I was previously told that there are some secret C symbols
> wherein if you create a variable of a particular name, it acts as a hint to
> the driver to trigger particular behavior.
>
> I can't at the moment find the names of the symbols or what they do, but
> I'll look around. Maybe you can find it before I do based on that knowledge.
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 5:04 PM Alberto Luaces <aluaces at udc.es> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> some client owns a laptop with a dual GPU system —the typical integrated
>> Intel card plus an additional Radeon 530 one into a windows10 system.
>>
>> It seems that the driver selects automatically the Radeon when using
>> some CAD applications, but only the integrated Intel when running our
>> OSG program (checked from the Program Manager window).
>>
>> I heard that in some analogous nVidia systems one can set manually a
>> given program to run with the powerful GPU in the Control Panel, but at
>> least, if it were possible in the AMD drivers, it is not immediately
>> apparent (we didn't find how).
>>
>> Does anybody have experience in this kind of Radeon systems?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> --
>> Alberto
>>
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