Any negatives of using gfxcardstatus for forcing igpu use?

[dk808]

Just wondering, is it bad to always have gfxcardstatus force my mbp to use only igpu? Im not playing any games or anything but the dgpu turns on whenever i use spotify and ableton live which drains battery and makes the mbp hotter.

I can just remember to turn gfxcardstatus on whenever i use these apps but having it always on would be much easier for me

 

[TopToffee]

Which MBP do you have?

I thin gfxcardstatus stopped being able to force ugly usage for new macs a few years ago? May be wrong about that, but swear I remember reading something about it.

 

[dk808]

Which MBP do you have?

I thin gfxcardstatus stopped being able to force ugly usage for new macs a few years ago? May be wrong about that, but swear I remember reading something about it.

I have the 2016 mbp and it works for me

 

[TopToffee]

I have the 2016 mbp and it works for me

Interesting. I thought it allows you to select one or the other, but doesn't actually affect which one is being used.

 

[Antairez]

Yes, you will be wasting money and carrying around a useless piece of stone called dGPU.



JK, I don't think there will be any side effects.

 

[TopToffee]

This was what I was thinking of:

 

[dk808]

This was what I was thinking of:

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Ableton Live and Spotify are not on the dependency list so igpu only mode works. Also I do not use a external display

 

[sidewinder]

Go here (make sure you get the version for your setup):

https://github.com/steveschow/gfxCardStatus/releases

This fork works on my MacBook Pro.

I found out about it here:

https://github.com/codykrieger/gfxCardStatus/issues/240

 

[maflynn]

I've only used it sparingly mostly to see how things worked on the iGPU.

 

[Samuelsan2001]

I don't see why you'd want to to be honest but hey it's your compute r do what you want with it..

 

[jerryk]

Have people asked Spotify and other companies why there apps use the dGPU?

Until we do the developers will not recode the apps to minimize dGPU usage. So file a bug report and put in the details on how to produce the issue. As a developer I can tell you 99% of time when someone gives you an easily reproducible issues you can figure out why it occurs and determine if you can fix it, and it so, how to fix it.

 

[hallux]

I use it on my 2012. I have one specific instance where I need to force the integrated GPU (well, 2). I have a couple Steam games that, while they run fine on the integrated graphics, run better on the dGPU. However, there is a bug in either the game or the graphics driver (specifically OpenGL according to the game developer) that causes the games to crash. Force integrated and they run perfectly.