[vtkusers] VTK with NVidia Optimus

[Paulo Waelkens]

Dear Chiang,
thank you for your suggestion. It is not possible to disable the IGP in the
BIOS of my laptop (Alienware17 r3), even after getting the newest BIOS from
dell. I *guess* this means the laptop does not have a hardware
multiplexer(?), whilst your M4700 has one(?). So this approach won't work,
I think.
Did you perhaps try the programmatic solutions suggested by nvidia (e.g.
NvOptimusEnablement export thing) when doing your OpenGL programming?
Thanks! Regards,
Paulo

On 1 January 2016 at 19:54, WangQ <wangq1979 at outlook.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> You may try disabling optimus in bios setting to see if works. At least
> this works with my DELL M4700 and direct opengl programming. Not 100% sure
> whether for VTK.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chiang
> ------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 18:42:17 +0100
> From: paulo.waelkens at gmail.com
> To: vtkusers at vtk.org
> Subject: [vtkusers] VTK with NVidia Optimus
>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm trying to get my VTK 6.3 application to use the NVidia GPU on my
> laptop. The laptop (Dell Alienware) combines an intel HD530 with an Nvidia
> GTX970m using the NVidia Optimus technology. At the moment, my application
> always uses the integrated GPU, which is slow and horrible. Did any of you
> figure out how to make the NVidia Optimus driver choose the discrete GPU
> instead??? The laptop uses the discrete GPU for games, so it's not a
> hardware problem, I'd say.
>
> NOTE: I have both the latest intel and nvidia GPU drivers, and installed
> the intel driver first (as suggested somewhere). I've built VTK 6.3 with
> shared libraries and using the OpenGL2 flag.
>
> I've followed the solutions described by nvidia, without success:
>
> http://developer.download.nvidia.com/devzone/devcenter/gamegraphics/files/OptimusRenderingPolicies.pdf
> - set the discrete GPU as the "Preferred graphics processor" => no effect
> - adding this line to my main.cpp
> extern "C" { _declspec(dllexport) DWORD NvOptimusEnablement = 0x00000001;
> } //=>no effect
>
> To check if the discrete GPU is being used, I use the GPU activity icon of
> the nvidia control panel (
> http://acer--uk.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9075/~/determining-which-graphics-card-is-used-with-nvidia-optimus).
> The icon does work correctly, since it shows activity when games are
> running (e.g. Starcraft 2).
>
> I figured maybe I need to add the *extern "C" { _declspec(dllexport)
> DWORD NvOptimusEnablement = 0x00000001; }* line in the VTK source code
> somewhere. This is a bit of a wild guess, but maybe, since I'm linking to
> VTK dynamically, all the OpenGL stuff is done withing the VTK dll
> boundaries, so NVidia Optimus needs a hint from VTK, not from my (console)
> application that uses VTK.
>
> I'm really running out of tricks here, and was wondering if one of you
> knows how to proceed.
> Thanks!
>
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