<div dir="ltr"><div> As you are aware, drivers like the NVidia Windows driver have a variety of tuneable settings accessible through the vendor-specific setting application. Many times these accomplish things that can't be accessed through the standard OpenGL APIs or extensions.<br></div><div><br></div><div> Is there any way to force settings (like use of dedicated GPU versus integrated GPU) from application code via an API?</div><div><br></div><div> Basically, we're trying to avoid having to teach the untrained user how to mess with those settings when we know the preferred settings for the application.</div><div><br></div><div> Interested in NVidia and optionally AMD, Windows primarily but cross-platform APIs are welcomed.</div><div><br></div><div> I'm digging into this: <a href="https://docs.nvidia.com/gameworks/index.html#gameworkslibrary/coresdk/gsa_api.htm">https://docs.nvidia.com/gameworks/index.html#gameworkslibrary/coresdk/gsa_api.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div> to see if it does what I want, but welcome input from others.</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center">Chris 'Xenon' Hanson, omo sanza lettere. Xenon@AlphaPixel.com <a href="http://www.alphapixel.com/" target="_blank">http://www.alphapixel.com/</a></div><div style="text-align:center">Training • Consulting • Contracting</div><div style="text-align:center">3D • Scene Graphs (Open Scene Graph/OSG) • OpenGL 2 • OpenGL 3 • OpenGL 4 • GLSL • OpenGL ES 1 • OpenGL ES 2 • OpenCL</div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Legal/IP •</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Forensics •</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span>Imaging <span style="font-size:12.8px">•</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">UAVs </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">• GIS • GPS • osgEarth • Terrain • Telemetry • Cryptography • LIDAR • Embedded • Mobile • iPhone/iPad/iOS • Android</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><a href="https://twitter.com/alphapixel" target="_blank">@alphapixel</a> <a href="http://facebook.com/alphapixel" target="_blank">facebook.com/alphapixel</a> (775) 623-PIXL [7495]<br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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