Take a Look: New Optimus Interface

By on Jul 27 2010
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With the July release of the monthly Verde drivers, NVIDIA has released a new Optimus user interface which provides even more visibility into how Optimus is working and allows you even more control over how Optimus operates. The video below highlights the new customization settings and options made available to you within the latest NVIDIA Control Panel and shows Optimus in action. NVIDIA’s Optimus technology allows users to experience the full performance benefits of a discrete GPU with the battery life of an integrated graphics solution. By default, Optimus is configured to be as transparent to the end user as possible and handles all actions automatically. However, NVIDIA has also engineered Optimus to be fully customizable to suit your specific preferences.

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  • Aydin

    Very good. Add this feature to Forceware driver too… ability to chose which display run an application. It will be useful for people with multiple display
    Could you please ask your driver team and write something about why nvidia’s SLI mode is disabled when more than 2 diffrent monitor attached to SLI GPUs?(It’s something diffrent than 3d Vision) ATI didn’t disabled this in their drivers (Eyefinity)

  • Adam

    I’d still rather have an easily toggleable global control to turn the GPU on and off. It’s nice that optimus is seamless and all, but I’d rather be in direct control. *I* know when I need the extra oomph at the expense of heat and power, and when I can live with integrated performance.
    If Optimus had an option to use a global switch alongside the current behaviour (perhaps, “Automatic”, “nVidia GPU Enabled”, “nVidia GPU Disabled”), that would be the best of both worlds. I don’t even care if it’s a semi-hidden option.

  • http://www.bizdoktor.dk VSEO

    Fantastic… But hey…
    Fail to download new driver:
    http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/258.96/258.96_desktop_win7_winvista_64bit_international.exe
    File NOT there ???
    Kebab!

  • http://blogs.nvidia.com/ntersect Shanee Ben-Zur @NVIDIA

    Hey VSEO, I’ve forwarded your error internally, but if you can also drop a line into the forums here, that would be great: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showforum=213

  • http://www.nvidia.com Brian Burke NVIDIA

    Optimus offers you more control than any other solution.
    The ‘auotmatic transmission’ mode is great. But you can switch to ‘standard transmission’ any time you want and select which graphics solution you want to use.
    The video shows you how to do exactly what you ask for:
    automatic mode
    GPU mode
    or IG mode
    You pick.

  • http://www.alienwarearena.com/member/693558/ Hassan Althagafi

    Hi Guys, is this update computable with Alienware M11xR2.