Taking advantage of integrated & dedicated graphics in laptop for power consumption.
Hi, so I have an Acer Swift X using Radeon integrated graphics and an RTX 3050 as the dedicated card.
The one thing Windows does well in my use-case is knowing when to utilize the integrated graphics, then transitioning over to using the dedicated GPU. If I use Firefox for web browsing/watching videos, then it will strictly use the Radeon graphics. If I start playing any game via. Steam or anything that's demanding at all, then it will transition over into using the dedicated graphics card. Is there any way I can utilise this same function (seamlessly) without having to set a bunch of manual configs?
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if a programs
.desktop file (program shortcut file) has that in it, it will run on the dedicated gpu in bazzite as we have a patched version of switcheroo that does this (the unpatched behavior doesnt check which graphics card is the discrete one and just blindly selects whatever the non-default graphics is, which works on laptops but not on desktops :clueless: )10 Replies
handled automatically by
switcherooctl and a flag in the .desktop file for the application. let me dig up what that flag is
Solution
if a programs
.desktop file (program shortcut file) has that in it, it will run on the dedicated gpu in bazzite as we have a patched version of switcheroo that does this (the unpatched behavior doesnt check which graphics card is the discrete one and just blindly selects whatever the non-default graphics is, which works on laptops but not on desktops :clueless: )perfect
steam has this flag by default
same with lutris?
it should, would be really dumb if it didnt :clueless:
ok bet
i dont use lutris so worth double checking, but im pretty sure its there
ill take a look at it
thanku for everything !!
huh lutris does not have it actually, i will check with kyle after scale this weekend if thats supposed to be like that as i believe he uses lutris
it will be easy for you to add it though
then add it there under the [Desktop Entry] section and press CTRL+X to save and exit