nVidia 330m switching Windows 7

[mrskitch]

All you bootcampers out there- how does windows 7 handle the dual graphics cards in the MBP's (especially the new one)? I want to run some emulators/games one my new 15" and was wondering if its something that you have to tell Windows to do or if 7 has its own sort of built in option (which I doubt..)

Maybe optimus will work? Any experiences?

 

[DrCheese]

It won't be built into Windows, this sort of stuff is usually done at driver level. If it was Nvidia optimus, then you could just create a driver from the intel/nvidia drivers.

But as it's an Apple custom one, it's entirely down to them if they support the switching or not. Given their history with the previous generation MBP's, I wouldn't count on it (which is a shame) We'll know more once reviews start appearing.

 

[TWIXMIX]

I played around with Bootcamp on my new 15" i7. It seems to stick with only using the 330m, no graphics switching. The strange thing is, Windows seems to think the card has over 1300mb of video memory.

Anyone have any idea why this may be?

 

[irishgrizzly]

Has anyone had trouble updating drivers for the 330 in windows? I get an error after trying to install the lastest update.

 

[mobilehaathi]

I played around with Bootcamp on my new 15" i7. It seems to stick with only using the 330m, no graphics switching. The strange thing is, Windows seems to think the card has over 1300mb of video memory.

Anyone have any idea why this may be?

I think Windows adds virtual vram...

 

[irishgrizzly]

I tried L4D2 with everything up to "high" on my 15" i5, 1400x900. Smooth experience although the fans went at full tilt!