It seems that Roblox and Nvidia’s Optimus don’t work so well together. By default Optimus runs Roblox (both client and server) on the integrated graphics card rather than the dedicated on my laptop. Since Roblox’s studio and client locations change every update I have to constantly force the new version of both of them to use the dedicated graphics card which gets tiring.
Unsure when this started happening, since I haven’t really been on for a while up until recently (sorry), but my guess is at least several months. I do know that at one point Optimus did choose the dedicated card by default, which is what I expect to happen instead.
System specs:
Intel Core i7-4700MQ
6.00 Gb ram
W8.1 - 64bit
Integrated: Intel Graphics HD 4600
Dedicated: GeForce GTX 770M
[quote] It seems that Roblox and Nvidia’s Optimus don’t work so well together. By default Optimus runs Roblox (both client and server) on the integrated graphics card rather than the dedicated on my laptop. Since Roblox’s studio and client locations change every update I have to constantly force the new version of both of them to use the dedicated graphics card which gets tiring.
Unsure when this started happening, since I haven’t really been on for a while up until recently (sorry), but my guess is at least several months. I do know that at one point Optimus did choose the dedicated card by default, which is what I expect to happen instead.
You can kiss your battery life good bye if you do that. You can’t set it as the system default in BIOs but you can set it so every program that can work on your second graphics card launches on the graphics card.
I mentioned this at RDC East, an the Staff seemed to realize how big of an issue this is.
As for how long this has been going on, let me put it this way, how long has Roblox existed? I’ve been manually changing it for 3 years, but I remember about 5-6 years ago I had to do something similar and it was the same situation.