How to disable iGPU?

[Fadednova]

Hello, does anyone know whether you can disable the Dedicated GPU on the acer aspire a715-74g? Thanks in advace!

[Windows7ge]

If you can you would find the option in your BIOS. An educated guess says you should be able to. The question is why though?

[WereCatf]

7 minutes ago, Fadednova said:

Dedicated GPU

In the title you speak about iGPU and now you're talking about dGPU? Which one do you actually mean?

[Electronics Wizardy]

It looks like a optimus laptops, so you can select what gpu prorgrams use, and if no porgrams use the gpu its off. You can't turn off the igpu as its the only one connected to the display

[Fadednova]

7 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

In the title you speak about iGPU and now you're talking about dGPU? Which one do you actually mean?

Oh, sorry I am talking about the GTX 1660 that is built into the laptop.

[Fadednova]

12 minutes ago, Windows7ge said:

If you can you would find the option in your BIOS. An educated guess says you should be able to. The question is why though?

The answer to that is going to get this thread locked. But it includes macOS.

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 minutes ago, Fadednova said:

Oh, sorry I am talking about the GTX 1660 that is built into the laptop.

So which one do you want to disable?

 

Your only using the igpu in osx, cause there isno support for optimus in osx

[Fadednova]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

So which one do you want to disable?

 

Your only using the igpu in osx, cause there isno support for optimus in osx

I would like to disable the Dedicated GPU.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Fadednova said:

I would like to disable the Dedicated GPU.

did you try installing osx? It won't use the dgpu unless you os supports optimux, so it won't be used in osx at all.

[Fadednova]

4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

did you try installing osx? It won't use the dgpu unless you os supports optimux, so it won't be used in osx at all.

Alright, Il give it a try when the mac os installer finishes downloading

[Windows7ge]

1 hour ago, Fadednova said:

The answer to that is going to get this thread locked. But it includes macOS.

Hackintosh discussion became allowed on the forum a fair number of months ago. The channel even outlined a number of ways to build one. is your plan to virtualize or bare metal?

[Fadednova]

1 hour ago, Windows7ge said:

Hackintosh discussion became allowed on the forum a fair number of months ago. The channel even outlined a number of ways to build one. is your plan to virtualize or bare metal?

Oh wait what really? I have not used this forum for a while, I plan to use my acer aspire 7, I did not understand how the dGPU worked, I thought that was what the screen used it but it is only enables in software. I am now making the usb installer. But thanks for the info!

[Windows7ge]

3 minutes ago, Fadednova said:

Oh wait what really? I have not used this forum for a while, I plan to use my acer aspire 7, I did not understand how the dGPU worked, I thought that was what the screen used it but it is only enables in software. I am now making the usb installer. But thanks for the info!

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Yeah iGPU & dGPU are different but I can see why you'd think in a laptop they're the same thing. I take it your plan is booting MacOS on bare metal yeah? I can't help much in that dept. Sorry.