- Jun 11, 2008
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Not sure where to place this. But I have an Alienware M11x. It has switchable graphics between Intel 4500MHD and nVidia GT 335m. Running with Intel graphics gives me great battery life, but nVidia obviously lets me play games.
Problem is Dellienware hasn't updated the GPU switchable drivers for at least a year, and probably won't. You can switch to nVidia only in the BIOS and use reference nVidia drivers, but then you lose the capability to switch to Intel for longer battery life.
There are some workarounds, running Windows 7 in Test Mode with modified drivers but you lose some functionality.
So my thought is if there is a way to load both sets of drivers, and manually selecting which graphics mode to use in the BIOS ("switchable" or "discrete"), and then manually choose drivers at boot up or preferably if there is a way to have it detect and load the appropriate drivers?
Just some idea, maybe not even a good one. But it would be a good work around. Better would be to have a BIOS option for Intel or nVidia as separate but they don't offer that either.
Problem is Dellienware hasn't updated the GPU switchable drivers for at least a year, and probably won't. You can switch to nVidia only in the BIOS and use reference nVidia drivers, but then you lose the capability to switch to Intel for longer battery life.
There are some workarounds, running Windows 7 in Test Mode with modified drivers but you lose some functionality.
So my thought is if there is a way to load both sets of drivers, and manually selecting which graphics mode to use in the BIOS ("switchable" or "discrete"), and then manually choose drivers at boot up or preferably if there is a way to have it detect and load the appropriate drivers?
Just some idea, maybe not even a good one. But it would be a good work around. Better would be to have a BIOS option for Intel or nVidia as separate but they don't offer that either.
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