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New Optimus Profiles – Silence is Golden

By on Mar 15 2010 in Notebook
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If you are the proud owner of an Optimus notebook we have a surprise for you. Your notebook is more up to date today than it was a few days ago. How so? Well, a few days ago we sent out the first profile updates for Optimus with over 30 new Optimus profiles, including some for upcoming games that haven’t even been released, like StarCraft II and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. (Note: To ensure the updates are working properly be sure to grab the latest Optimus driver from nvidia.com/optimus, it helps correct a profile merging issue some early systems were having)

The new profile updates are another facet of Optimus that make its technology ‘just work.’ A profile tips off the system to the kind of application being used and which GPU makes the most sense for that application. Most types of applications are automatically detected by Optimus and do not need a profile. However certain applications rely on profiles to help determine the right graphics system.

Profiles are updated frequently to ensure new applications are leveraging the NVIDIA GPU. Optimus notebooks receive updates automatically, silently, and in the background – no annoying prompts or notifications to deal with. The update process works similarly to how virus software keeps their database of virus definitions up-to-date. This week the first Optimus update happened. And we’re going to keep making updates to help make your notebook keep getting better and better. All automatically and in the background.

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  • http://profile.typepad.com/cameronashley Cameron Ashley

    I installed that driver and I have the StarCraft 2 Beta. When I run the game it does not use the better graphics card to play the game it uses the Intel one. Any body know why this is happening?

  • Tin

    Same problem here, optimus does not work for starcraft 2, there should be a overwrite to force the better card to always work to avoid this.

  • http://profile.typepad.com/cameronashley Cameron Ashley

    I have resorted to opened a YouTube video and going right to the end of the video it seems to keep the NVIDIA card active but i’m not impressed with the performance of the card with this game. Hoping for a new update PLEASE someone.

  • Matt Wuebbling

    Hi all – Thanks for the comments. We are aware of the problem you’re reporting and are working on a resolution. Stay tuned.

  • Tin

    Any progress here?

  • Dougamer

    Same issue with Fallout 3. When launching Fallout 3, you can choose what GPU to use, but there isn’t even an option to choose my 325M, only the intel dedicated shows as an option, which in end, causes Fallout 3 to crash even before it gets in-game.

  • kama

    hi, any updates on this issue ? any progress here ?