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April 4th, 2012 04:00
Nvidia not supporting the 3d designing software
Hye there,
I am just curious about ... is it possible to use nvidia gpu directly and disable the switching gpus or optimus technology? I am using a 3d designing software 'Gemvision Matrix' and Nvidia gpu is not supporting this app at all, just curious if dell can provide a solution for this, thousands of users may switch to dell notebooks, right now gemvision officials are not recommending dell at all because of this problem.
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Rehan Sheikh
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DELL-Terry B
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April 5th, 2012 15:00
Rehan
I would like to help, what notebook do you have, depending on the model there may be a way to disable Optimus. Dell does offer notebooks with GPUs both from AMD and nVidia. The consumer lines that ship with nVidia GPUs tend not to have options to disable Optimus while the Client models you have to option to do so in the BIOS. Please understand that Optimus is a feature from nVidia not Dell.
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Rehan Sheikh
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April 6th, 2012 00:00
Dear Terry,
Thanks for your reply, here is the detail about my system,
Inspiron 15R N5110
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Dell Inc. Inspiron N5110
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @2.20GHz (total: 8 LogicalProcessors)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M with 1024 MB
Driver: 8.17.12.9610
1366x768x4294967296 colors
Miccrosoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP 1.0 64-bit
3.91 GB Ram
I'll be waiting for your help,
Regards,
Rehan Sheikh
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April 6th, 2012 11:00
Rehan
The Inspiron line is a Consumer line and as such the Insprion 15r doesn't have the option for disabling Optimus.
You may have the option to create a high performance profile for 'Gemvision Matrix'
en.community.dell.com/.../19405027.aspx
Creating Optimus Settings for a New Program:
1.Open the NVIDIA Control Panel.
2.Select Manage 3D Settings.
3.Select Program Settings tab.
4.Click Add.
5.Browse to and select the application executable for Gemvision Matix that needs the new profile.
6.Choose the preferred graphics processor to use from the drop menu.
Please be sure to have the AC adapter attached to the notebook and see if Gemvision runs now.
TB
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April 6th, 2012 11:00
http://www.gemvision.com/html/support_training/matrix_countersketch_system_requirements.html
Intel Quad Core i5 or i7 or faster
4 GB or better of DDR RAM. Only 64-bit operating systems support higher than 4 GB
Nvidia GeForce Video Card with 1GB VRAM (ATI/AMD and nVidia Quadro cards NOT recommended or supported)
Matrix and CounterSketch perform best on nVidia GeForce video cards and Gemvision only supports the GeForce models of nVidia video cards. While certain models of ATI/AMD or nVidia Quadro video cards may indeed work with Rhino/Matrix/CounterSketch, we have experienced various problems and therefore do not recommend ATI/AMD or Quadro cards.
Gemvision does not recommend or support any laptop computers that feature "graphics switching" technology. The main examples of this technology are NVIDIA's Optimus Technology and AMD's Switchable Graphics. Graphics switching is a methodology that incorporates two graphics processors in a laptop. One GPU (graphics processing unit) is the Intel onboard video and the other GPU is the NVIDIA or AMD GPU. For "low power" tasks that do not require much GPU power, the computer uses the Intel GPU - which in turn, saves battery life. For higher-end software that requires "graphics intensive" capability, the computer would then switch to the more capable NVIDIA or AMD GPU.
Gemvision's experience with this technology has been very unfavorable and we do not recommend purchasing a laptop with graphics switching technology.
You are asking if This is supported on a platform that GEMVIZION SPECIFICALLY Says WILL NOT WORK.
The answer is no.