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  • OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.detoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldHardware question
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    10 months ago

    It’s probably a pain to set up in Windows. In Linux, it just works, there’s nothing to set up. I’m using it right now.

    OP really should have mentioned their OS.

    Edit: Actually, nevermind both my posts. I know DRI_PRIME works by using my APU for regular desktop activity, and routing discrete GPU output in whenever a game is being played. But I don’t know if it’s possible to make it use the dGPU all the time.

    Even if it did, it would only work inside the OS, so if you had to boot into the BIOS for anything, you wouldn’t have a display. So for all intents and purposes, it wouldn’t really work.


  • OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.detoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldHardware question
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    10 months ago

    I just did a quick bing chat search (“does DRI_PRIME work on systems without a cpu with integrated graphics?”) and it says it will work. I can’t check for you because my CPUs all have graphics.

    I CAN tell you that some motherboards will support it (my ASUS does) and some don’t (my MSI).

    BTW, I’m talking about Linux. If you’re using Windows, there’s a whole series of hoops you have to jump through. LTT did a video a while back.