i think it already work ?
#hybrid gpu
quiet oyster
viral zodiac
How do u know its not working is a good place to start
lament osprey
I would say you are already using you gt710, I am not sure how you could figure that. I know the old laptops with 2 gpus use directly the dedicated gpu instead of the integrated with intel. good luck
polar tinsel
@rotund lodge the default driver should work for most things except graphics-intensive games, so if you dont need anything from the official driver i wouldnt reccomend installing it especially because you are on an older gpu model that will need an older driver. If you do need the official drivers, there are instructions to install them here: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA
if you do choose to follow those steps you will need to enable the nonfree nvidia option in the software repositories section of the software store first.
i believe with your gpu model the driver you would want is the one in the "Legacy GeForce 400/500" section
by default fedora will use your hybrid gpu without any proprietary driver setup for apps that it thinks need to use the gpu, if you want to force a specific app to use the gpu you can right click it and "launch using discrete graphics"
halcyon owl
yes but it's not really smart to do
it'll just overheat your laptop and shorten your battery life
not sure, but disabling the GPU driver should work I believe
what Minecraft launcher do you use?
halcyon owl
make a .desktop launcher
and add this at the end
PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true DRI_PRIME=1
it fixed it for me and now minecraft launches with nvidia
i use a unofficial launcher tho, so it might not work with the microsoft one
[Desktop Entry]
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=
Exec=/usr/lib/jvm/java-21-openjdk-21.0.3.0.9-1.fc40.x86_64/bin/java -jar [path to launcher] PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true DRI_PRIME=1
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon=java-21-openjdk
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=SKL
Name=SKL
Path=
PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
heres how my full config looks like
halcyon owl
what?
make a desktop launcher for it
okay
but can't oyu create a desktop file for it?
naive widget
The actual solution here is using Mint, since that does support GPU switching. Fedora might do as well, but even if it does, I have no idea how to activate it.
halcyon owl
The actual solution here is using Mint, since that does support GPU switching. F...
Fedora (and Windows) use both the integrated and dedicated cards, depending on what task they're doing. If you're just on your desktop, fedora will use the integrated, but if it senses it needs better graphics, it will use the dedicated. Or at least that's how I understand it. (Only applies to Nvidia)
naive widget
Great if it works. I am reserving some doubt concerning the efficacy.
halcyon owl
halcyon owl
Great if it works. I am reserving some doubt concerning the efficacy.
I've only had an issue with it using the integrated card for Minecraft (supposedly it's a common issue)
I wish it had some sort of setting where you could select which app uses what card, like there is on Windows. (thereorically you can set it to use discrete graphics for each app)
And I strongly agree that mint's GPU switcher is simpler to understand and superior. As far as I know, nothing like that is available for Fedora.
naive widget
It might still become a feature, since the basic technology is already there. Until then, Mint for user control and Minecraft, Fedora for everything else, I suppose.