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Does Parallels activate the dGPU?

andeify

andeify

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I'm wondering if you start Parallels does it activate the discreet GPU? or can it detect if you start a game in a Windows VM will it activate?
 
I think all VMs will always use the dGPU. You can use gfxCardStats to force Integrated only if you do not want this (Click it twice).
 
andeify said:
I'm wondering if you start Parallels does it activate the discreet GPU? or can it detect if you start a game in a Windows VM will it activate?
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Parallels virtualizes hardware. Even if it did activate the dGPU, it wouldn't help gaming at all, that's not how it works.
 
I was just wondering if Parallels was one of those apps that activates the dGPU or wether it was intelligent enough to know when to activate it.
 
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