Dell Precision Optimizer User's Guide

Standard Mode

The Optimization page lists all the policies in a selected profile. The name of the selected profile appears on top of the right panel. The names and descriptions of policies appear below it, followed by additional guidance, if available, for the selected profile.

New application profiles are made available via Dell Precision Optimizer updates available in the System Maintenance module or Check for New Profile Updates.

If your system has any ISV certified graphics drivers that correspond to any of the ISV applications for which Dell Precision Optimizer has profiles, then the certified driver information and a link to download and install that driver is displayed in the Graphics Optimization section of the profile's detail page.

Check For New Profile Updates

When this button is clicked, the application checks if there are any new profiles that are available. New profiles are downloaded, obsolete profiles may be deleted, and some profiles may be updated. This feature functions when the machine is connected to the internet.

Active Profiles

This section lists the profiles that are currently active on your system. A profile is considered active if it is enabled and its policies are started every time the system starts. You can click on any of these profiles to see the details of the selected profile. You can also disable an active profile or enable an inactive profile using the ON/OFF switch on the right pane of the Optimization page.

Inactive Profiles

A profile that is not currently active is called an inactive profile. These are profiles that have been disabled by the user.

Premium Mode

If you are running Dell Precision Optimizer Premium software, you can switch to an Advanced View which lists all the applications that are either custom optimized on your system or the applications for which you imported optimization settings. Or user can stay in Legacy View which lists all the built-in profiles.

You can use the Advanced View to optimize any application, even the ones for which Dell Precision Optimizer has a built-in legacy profile.

The process to optimize a new application begins first by selecting the target process using the Add Application button. You can either select an application from the list of most commonly used applications determined by Dell Precision Optimizer or you can use the Browse button to select the desired application executable.

Once the application is selected, it is marked as In Progress until Dell Precision Optimizer finishes learning the behavior of the application using machine learning and applies learned optimization settings. During this stage, you can request Dell Precision Optimizer to pause application learning and later resume application learning. You must actively use the application for Dell Precision Optimizer software to learn the application's behavior and then determine the most optimal settings for that application. You can also choose to cancel the learning at any stage, which will discard any learned information for that application. It typically takes between 1 hour to 5 hours to learn an application. However, if there are long periods in between where the application is not running or inactive, this period may be much longer.

After the application is learned, Dell Precision Optimizer marks that application as Optimized. In some cases, Optimized may prompt you to Reboot the system or Restart the application for the optimizations to take effect. Use the Disable/Enable option for each optimized application if you want to temporarily turn off/on the optimizations applied by Dell Precision Optimizer for that application. You may want to do this if you have used Dell Precision Optimizer to optimize more than one application and they have conflicting optimization settings. In such a case, Dell Precision Optimizer warns you before you enable the optimization for the conflicting application.

After the application is optimized, you can import or export its configurations. Dell Precision Optimizer shows only the stock icon for any imported profile instead of the actual application icon.