If you are noticing the computer switching to power-hungry discrete graphics and can’t figure out what application might be causing this, the app will give you a list of which programs cause the switch from the drop down menu. You might want the latter when you are running low on battery life but can’t plug-in. This can increase performance when plugged in and increase battery life when unplugged. There are preferences which allow you to tell it to set the graphics card to the less battery hungry integrated graphics when your computer is unplugged or to automatically turn on the more powerful discrete graphics card when you are plugged into power. The drop down menu gives options including selection of the Intel only, AMD or NVIDIA only or Dynamic Switching, which is the default for the MacBook Pro and lets the computer decide automatically. In addition, if you would like to manually switch the computer between the two, you simply click the menu icon. The app will run in the background and any time the computer switches it will give you an onscreen notification (see above and below). It is a free app which you can get from the developer’s website. gfxcardstatus is a lightweight utility that runs in your menu bar and tells you exactly when that happens with on-screen notification. It is nice to know when the higher powered discrete graphics card is being used. The benefit is higher power when needed, but lower power consumption on the integrated graphics for ordinary tasks. Integrated graphics are for ordinary applications like Microsoft Word and a Twitter client. From an automotive analogy think of dynamic switching graphics as switching to four-wheel drive when driving off-road and two-wheel drive for driving around town. A high-powered gaming card is for more intense applications like Photoshop or Call of Duty. Having dynamic switching graphics is like being able to open the computer and put in a different graphics card for different scenarios, except you don’t have to dissect your MacBook Pro. The difference between integrated and discrete graphics is power – both consumption and horsepower to get work done. When your system needs a lot of graphics processing power for things like video encoding, picture editing or especially gaming, the computer switches from lowered powered integrated graphics to higher powered discrete graphics. The MacBook Pro has what is called switchable or dynamic switching graphics. Aaabbbcccddd wrote:Suikoden II had more of an impact, but only because of you know who's death scene.If you ever want to know which graphics card your Apple MacBook Pro is using, then gfxcardstatus is the perfect utility. Since she stuck with you almost the entire game, it gave you a lot of time to let her sink in, like she's always supposed to be there, and then she dies. However, oddly enough, I think the saddest death scene in Suikoden I is Odessa's, even though you hardly spent any time with her at all. Probably because of the "throw me in the river" part.a great leader who died for her cause is ended up chucked in a river and doesn't even get a proper burial, and then is forgotten about by almost everyone later in the game. I don't think her death ever really impacted me much. When she "died" I breated a sigh of relief that she was finally taken out of my party.įor me, Gremio's death had far more impact due to the fact of being eaten my man-eating spoores.īut I loved Suiko 1 the best, partly because it was the first of the series I played, but also because of how revolutionary it was. Most RPGs hold the formula of battling back an evil empire. In Suiko I though, you play the rebels, the aggressors. Don't really see a lot of that in RPGs where you incite a revolution for an empire that only a few people seemed to have a problem with.
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