![]() Is gfxCardStatus still a viable option to force the autimatic switching to be off? Because the little that I've looked into it, it seems like it used to be the perfect easy way to do it, but now it maybe is longer in development? Or only works on older Macbooks? If gfxCardStatus is not an option, are there any other easy to do methods to accomplish this? And will the effects from doing so harm the Macbook over time? Any info would be appreciated. Only the graphics card being on and drawing more power to use the display or whatever causes my fans to noticably spin up really at all. So yes, that does contribute to the computer getting hotter and maybe using the fans more often, but using the thing as a normal laptop, when I know the dedicated graphics card is not on, it is perfectly silent, how I want. (yes this part is my fault): but minor water damage in the past has made the left fan in the Macbook not function. Because of the autimatic switching of the graphics, the non integrated graphics card is used 100% of the time a monitor is plugged in, and the problem is, this makes it super likely that my fans will spin up a bunch with just the most basic of apps open (terminal mostly, and chrome, thats pretty much it). I don't know if that's because I had to move the driver (after going to target disk mode and using my wife's Mac because Sierra won't let you move any files if you can't boot into Recovery mode, which I couldn't, to turn off. I use my Macbook with an external display quite a bit, and doing so is literally the only time where I have a problem with the graphics card. At any rate, I can't get v2.3 to switch to integrated graphics as it continues to claim I'm using an external monitor. To use a display, stay on Dynamic Switching. I just installed your app, and am at home, unable to test it fully.I would like to force integrated graphics only on my 2018 Macbook Pro 15" (basically never use the dedicated radeon graphics card, if there are no major consequences). You cannot use external displays (including projectors) while using gfxCardStatus in Integrated Only mode. As far as I can tell, the app does permit power-source-based switching without the login display resolution problem! I have to test the effects on an external projector display next week when I'm in a classroom, however it may limit the resolution available to me when running on battery power and connecting a projector. This application allows me to choose the card to use when I want to save battery power and have no external display connected.īut it resets automatic switching if it was turned off before the app was run. This seems to be an Apple bug triggered by some update in the past couple of months, at least on my MBP. You can't get back the highest resolution and have black bars at the top and bottom of the screen (the higher resolution setting is not available on the integrated card, and for some reason the system won't permit the change). As stated on the developers webpage: 'gfxCardStatus v2.3 and above actively prevents you from switching to Integrated Only mode when any apps are in the Dependencies list ( or if you have an external display plugged in ). For example, to be able to boot my MBP 8.2, I must remove the ATI and AMD extensions, but in this case, the selected GPU is the Radeon GPU and gfxCardStatus is not able to force the usage of the integrated GPU because it detects an external display even I have no plugged external display. On some Macs with dual cards, such as my 2011 MBP, use of the Energy Saver automatic graphics switching will trigger a display problem when logging out and logging back in: the display will be stuck on a lower-resolution option until restart. For your scenario it probably won't work.
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