I've run into some minor trouble with Star Wars - The Force Unleashed 1.2, Mac OS X 10.7, and gfxCardStatus 2.1, all running on a MacBook Pro 15" Mid-2009 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo with NVIDIA 9400M/9600M GT, and 4GB of RAM. Namely, it crashes if I've logged in running on the 9400M and switch to the 9600M GT. If I switch, log out, and log back in it launches and runs just fine.

I didn't play the game much in 10.6.x, but I do know that it would launch and run just fine if I used earlier versions of gfxCardStatus to switch from the 9400M to the 9600M GT. I haven't seen any other issues with Lion and gfxCardStatus switching GPUs without a logout/login.

Crash log: http://www.mediafire.com/?5dwj1j1v6z3orxr

I had a copy of 1.7.5 around, and installed that, but it doesn't appear to be doing anything anymore. I have the 2010 mac pro 17", and a diamond usb dvi adapter as well.

What the title says.

Should probably listen for the screen params change notification in this case and force to the 330M if an external monitor is connected.

I keep having the issue where gfxcardstatus keeps switching to the "Discreet Only" mode, even though I have the battery mode set to "integrated" and the plugged in mode set to "Dynamic". I notice this frequently when I use VMWare Fusion, or more specifically, when I exit out of VMWare and notice that my graphics card did not switch back to integrated mode. Without fail, the gfxcardstatus app will have my mode set as "discreet only".

Just as the title says. Need to investigate.

Downloaded and ran the application. Under preferences, I'm able to click all options under "general" but only the first option is clickable under the "switching" options. I've rebooted, and checked to make sure I've the proper graphics cards. My friend who also downloaded gfxCardStatus is having no issues, so I'm not sure what's going on.

I took a screenshot of the preferences panel here: http://cl.ly/a6cbd774ce9948d56942

-13" Macbook Pro's 320M video misidentified as Geforce 9600M GT
-Single choice present for video card (Geforce 9600M GT)

What the title says. I'd like gfxCardStatus to be AppleScriptable.

I've checked out latest build and noticed that when the GPU switching ( power-based ) occurs it is not smooth as it was on stable 1.8.1 running on my 2009 MBPro w\ 9400/9600 when running with a external monitor plugged in

Both screens goes blue ( like when you plug the mini display port adapter ) and black for a few seconds than everything gets normal. With 1.8.1 the switching was totally smooth ( no screen flicks, no blue screens ) even with ext. monitor.

The switching between the GPU's without an external monitor plugged in is totally smooth. No blue / black screen.

Only thing I've actually noticed is that when no external monitor is connected and I remove the power connector, the screen dims ( probably power saver behaviour ) and CPU spikes. Actually CPU spikes on all switching cases, causing a small ( about 200 ms cpu cycle delay - measured on Instruments )

Create a logo that doesn't get eaten up by the transparent charcoal background of stacks/lists in the dock when displayed.

Fix!

The icon representing the graphics card used doesn't change anymore, it stays at 'n', albeit the menu shows the correct graphics card (on late 2008 MB Pro).

Best,
Michael

gfxCardStatus 2.0.1 on 10.6.6 with Growl 1.2.1.

The Growl notifications all display in the same position. This occurs even if there is another Growl notification already in that position either from gfxCardStatus or another application. The result is that the notifications are overlayed instead of the later notification being in a different position on the display. Never seen this with any other application's Growl notifications or indeed any that I have created with AppleScript of with grownotify. To test on my MacBook Pro just I just remove the AC cord or plug it back in and observe the 2 notifications each action triggers overlay each other.

It would be great if there were three settings for power-source based switching, instead of the two currently: mains, battery (above threshold), and battery (below threshold), where the user can specify a threshold (e.g., 50%). The idea being, when above (say) 50%, dynamic switching or nvidia-only can be used, but when battery is running low, fall back to low-power graphics only.

i'm not 100% sure (still testing) but it looks like gfxcardstatus causes SystemUIServer to consume high amounts of memory (700MB after a few days).

• 10.6.4, 64-Bit Kernel, MacBook Pro 2.66 i7 nvidia 330m

Hey guys,

i am using a Macbook Pro
mid 2010,
2.4ghz i5,
8gb ram
mac os x lion
gfxcardstatus 2.1 (newest version i checked)

I told gfxcardstatus to change to the integrated graphics immediatly when i switch to battery-mode.
everytime i do so, the mac doesnt seem to be able to show or follow my instructions.
i only run mail.app and firefox. and just simple browsing. but i wasnt even able to access google.
the mac freezes and goes max. fan-noise.

i know this issue is probably not 100% caused by gfxcardstatus. though when i change the settings to switch automatically. no freezes occure.

thanks.

Or so it seems. When I switch from the menubar, the icon disappears, and clicking the app icon will not make it re-appear, although it shows it still running in Activity Monitor.

This is on Early-2010 MacBook Pro 17" Intel HD/GT 330M

Consider adding this statistic somewhere in the app...maybe not in the menu though, don't want it to get too cluttered.

Hi! Even with power source-based switching enabled to only use Intel graphics (using MacBook Pro 15" 2010), Chrome still activates the Nvidia card.

Is this a bug with gfxCardStatus or something with Chrome?

Whoops...investigate.

How do you uninstall? Why is there no support for uninstall?

Maybe it's when I boot to windows, maybe it's completely arbitrary, but the app keeps forgetting the power source settings.

It jumps back to default (off) and often gets stuck in nvidia mode.

There's currently an issue when multiple users are signed on and fast user switching is used to flip to another account, but processes that force the 330M on are left running. The GPU is detected as being on correctly, but the apps don't show up in the dependency list.

HI!

I have just found your app, and I really like it :)
However it would be really great if the app can automatically restart those applications which behaves badly for graphics switching.

First off I just wanted to say that this app is a must for anyone with an i5/i7 MBP. I've recently downloaded v2.0 and I've noticed a strange behavior. I have graphics switching configured so that intel is used when on battery and dynamic on power, however whenever a switch occurs because of a change in power state my wallpaper disappears and I get the standard blue background that appears when no wallpaper is chosen. Obviously is just wallpaper so not the end of the world but still strange, more than happy to supply more information.

I've been using gfxCardStatus for a while now to switch video cards on 2009 MBP (NVidia 9400M/9600GT). In SL, everything was working quite well. But when I upgraded to Lion, it seems that switching video cards make graphic intensive apps (especially games) unstable.

Here's how I reproduce it:

1. Switch from 9400M to 9600GT.
2. Run Steam.
3. Run Team Fortress 2 (or any Source-based game).
4. TF2 will crash.

Please take note that I am already using the latest gfxCardStatus (2.1)

Sometimes the game crashes immediately after the first time I switch via gfxCardStatus. Sometimes, it takes about 3-5 times before the games start crashing. And sometimes, Steam won't run at all.

At the moment, the only way I can resolve the crashing is to logout and relogin again (which I don't do in SL).

when setting to intel only immediately after waking up (I did this in my fork by, but calling your original setMode: ), the log shows success (getMuxState == 0), but sometimes the card remain unchanged (icon remain "n" and dependency list etc. remain "n")

I uncheck this preference (as I don't want Growl notifications every time it changes,) and then I click "All done."

Later I reboot, and when the system is back up, I see Growl notifications, and I also see that this setting is checked again.

./.

Running a MacBook Pro late 2009 (with 9400M and 9600M GT) and even with steam closed while changing the graphics card, Portal 2 and Team Fortress refuse to start. After changing back to the original graphics card, they both start without a problem.

Backtrace:

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libsystem_c.dylib 0x9679e0bc strstr + 71
1 launcher.dylib 0x00399ef2 GLMRendererInfo::GLMRendererInfo(GLMRendererInfoFields_) + 1458
2 launcher.dylib 0x0039d155 GLMDisplayDB::PopulateRenderers() + 2389
3 launcher.dylib 0x003988e7 GLMDisplayDB::Populate() + 23
4 launcher.dylib 0x0039b70f CCocoaMgr::GetDisplayDB() + 159
5 shaderapidx9.dylib 0x0a386347 IDirect3D9::GetAdapterDisplayMode(unsigned int, D3DDISPLAYMODE) + 55
6 shaderapidx9.dylib 0x0a3d70c6 CShaderDeviceMgrDx8::GetCurrentModeInfo(ShaderDisplayMode_t_, int) const + 38
7 engine.dylib 0x049cf5ea Shader_Connect(bool) + 122
8 engine.dylib 0x04b46e03 CEngineAPI::Connect(void_ ()(char const, int_)) + 147
9 launcher.dylib 0x00394ce3 CAppSystemGroup::OnStartup() + 163
10 launcher.dylib 0x003950a5 CAppSystemGroup::Run() + 37
11 launcher.dylib 0x003950d8 CAppSystemGroup::Run() + 88
12 launcher.dylib 0x0039db62 MainFunctionThread(void_) + 82
13 launcher.dylib 0x0039decc ValveCocoaMain + 140
14 launcher.dylib 0x00389bb1 LauncherMain + 977
15 portal2_osx 0x00001d26 start + 54

I would love to be able to customize which apps use nVidia and which use Intel because Google Chrome likes to use nVidia when it doesn't need it, likewise with iTunes and several other apps.

This is an additional setting that overrides "restore last used mode at startup."

Ever since I upgraded to gfxCardStatus v1.8 (from 1.7 I think...) I ran into this issue. I'm not doing anything on the computer and it constantly switches from intel to nvidia back to intel. I was hoping v2.0 would solve this problem but alas it does not. The only way I can make it stop is to turn off the program or select intel or nvidia only. Has anyone else had this problem?

edit: I just restored 1.7.5 from my oldest time machine backup and the problem is still present, could this be due to some library or saved application preferences?
edit: just removed ~/Library/Preferences/com.codykrieger* and problem persists.

What the title says.

It would be nice to have a configurable whitelist for apps that should trigger switch to discrete wide even if the current mode is integrated (forced by manual selection or power source), e.g. adobe photoshop works on integrated video but is missing come important features, so video should switch to discrete if photoshop is launched.

Reproduced with powersource based switching (battery = integrated, plugged in = discrete) on MBP 15" 2011.

How to reproduce:

1.Turn on MBP
2.Plug in magsafe and let MBP detect charging. gfxCardStatus will be switched to discrete.
3.Close lid and let MBP to sleep
4.Pull off magsafe
5.Open lid - gfxCardStatus will not switch to integrated gpu

Same happens if let close lid when MBP on battery and plugin magsafe - gfxCardStatus will not switch to discrete.

Some info about the issue:

NSApplicationDidChangeScreenParametersNotification is still fired when apps open that should cause a switch. The switch seems to take place much later than the notification comes, though, so when gfxCardStatus checks, technically it does get the "current" GPU, but then shortly after that, the GPU switches, and gfxCardStatus is incorrect.

Need to research some other methods of detecting when the GPU has switched.

Need to investigate. May be fixed in v1.7.5pre.

I'm trying to track down the issue and not sure how gfxCardStatus fits in but there's something going on.

gfxcardstatus 2.0.1 with new pref file set on "power source-based switching" with battery = integrated and plugged-in = dynamic.

This is on a 2011 MBP 15" i7 with SSD drive.

(A) If I have no apps running and if I am plugged in and then remove the plug, it says it has switched to integrated. My battery life remaining shows at about 5:15. (B) If I then reboot (on battery) my battery life jumps to 7:58.

I have coconut battery running under scenario (A) it hovers around 14.5W, while on scenario (B) it hovers around 9.5W of battery usage. I check Activity Monitor in both scenarios and nothing materially different in terms of CPU usage -- both fairly idle.

So something is happening when I unplug and the only thing I can think of is that even though it says it switched to integrated, it is still really using the discrete. Because in scenario (B) if I switch to discrete manually the battery drops to about 5:15. I find it hard to believe that's a coincidence.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

VMware Fusion (running Windows 7, at least) gets very upset if an NVIDIA/Intel switch happens while it's running. Could you add a blacklist of such apps?

Thanks, btw, really liking the power source-based switching.

Unfortunately, the file http://github.com/codykrieger/gfxCardStatus/blob/v1.8-power-source-switching/English.lproj/MainMenu.xib can neither be built nor opened, error messages are "could not read archive" both in XCode and Interface Builder.

I am having a hard time with power source switching. By my tests I found the following problems:

• "Restore last used mode at startup" and "Use power source-based switching" conflict with each other, check boxes should cancel each other;
• Some times when you do a cold boot it does not switch to my preference if I am using battery.

If you need help or more explanation please let me know.

Title says it all.

Anyone else having this issue??

I'm running a brand new core i7 MacBook Pro with the intel integrated/Nvidia GT 330M graphics, and occasionally (it seems like whenever I'm looking for it) the "i" or "n" disappears. I'm trying to nail down when or what exactly triggers the disappearance but I have yet to figure it out. Boxee seems like a likely culprit however I don't think its the only one. After a while, the icon does return (I've noticed that it usually returns if I change any settings from System Preferences). An odd bug, hopefully you can get it fixed.

If you need any other info, let me know.

The Power Source is always set at 'AC Adaptor', independent of the GPU used.

Please let me know if you ned additional information.

Thanks and best regards,
Michael

Tried power based switching, which is a great feature, but due to some apps not responding to the change well, I've gone back to manually switching by way of the menu-bar. Which led me to start wishing for a way to do it by keyboard. Global hot-key support built into the app, or switching by Applescript would work for me (as I can fire an Applescript with a QS trigger).

If no one else gets around to it, I might take a crack at it. Just don't have time to learn Cocoa at the moment :)

VMware Fusion (running Windows 7, at least) gets very upset if an NVIDIA/Intel switch happens while it's running. Could you add a blacklist of such apps?

Thanks, btw, really liking the power source-based switching.

Hey Cody, great app idea, I love it.

When using dual monitors (laptop + external, external is primary), open apps seem to render on the lappy's screen, then (mostly) move back into their correct position. However, they are vertically resized to the size of the smaller screen.

Didn't know if you tested that use case.

Thanks!

it seems gfxCardStatus stopped working, or at least unstable under Lion (mid-2010 MBP)