keeps switching from intel to nvidia back to intel when dynamic about gfxcardstatus HOT 9 CLOSED

I'd both remove ~/Library/Preferences/com.codykrieger* and redownload v2.0 from my website by hand and see if that fixes the issue. One or two other people had this problem before and a redownload solved it.

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thanks for the quick reply! unfortunately that did not solve the problem. are there any other options?

and crap, I did not mean to close the issue.

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Hmm, I haven't seen any situations where that didn't fix the issue. You might try reinstalling Growl for kicks.

What applications are you running when this happens? What are your login items?

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reinstalled growl, rebooted and it's still happening. it seems to be doing it constantly now though even after closing gfxcardstatus (I can tell because the computer pauses for a second when switching video cards). Removed it from startup, and it still continues to pause every 10-20 seconds like it switching cards. If I open the program and take it off of dynamic then all is well though. I have no applications open when it starts. This can't be good...it worries me that it would happen when the app does NOT start with my system; does removing it put all of the settings etc etc back to normal?

login items:
growlhelperapp
gfxcardstatus
smcfancontrol
ituneshelper
caffeine
bettertouchtool
usboverdrivehelper
google notifier
dropbox

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I don't see anything on your login items list that should cause this.

If it's still switching quickly after you close gfxCardStatus, though, I'm inclined to think it's not a gfxCardStatus issue. Does it do it even if you take gfxCardStatus out of your login items and reboot?

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no if I hit exit the icon just disappears from the menu bar. is it supposed to?

i made a new user account and the problem follows, so it's either something globally with the OS, or the hardware itself...arrr

and yes the problem seems to persist through a reboot with gfxcardstatus taken out of the startup. I'm still running 10.6.4, let me update and see if that fixes anything.

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Sounds good - I believe there are some graphics-related updates in 10.6.5 that may have some effect on the issue. Let me know the results of the upgrade.

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That seems to have done the trick. I also updated my CUDA drivers but I doubt that was the culprit. Thanks so much for your assistance =)

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No problem! Glad you were able to get it solved. It's always some weird thing like that.

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