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Aziouss
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Oct 04, 2024

Bring back right click to chose to run programs on dGPU(dedicated GPU) or iGPU(integrated GPU)

I spend about 2 hours trying to figure out why some of my graphically intensive program ran smoothly and others did not...
Apparently MS with their Windows 11 in their infinite wisdom chose to decide for me which programs uses which Gpu! With some arcane arbitrary logic no less...
Without asking!
It used to be a simple something the user could change with a simple right click...
Useful for people who do a lot of graphic design or just play games on their PCs!

Now you have to go thought 4 different UIs Systems > display > graphics and manually trace the program.exe...
I had to do this with something as simple and ubiquitous as my web browser when video streaming was low fidelity.
I assumed it was a network problem or a browser problem at first... Alas it was more asinine that that...
Firefox was running on iGPU...

The "let windows decide" option needs to be improved or redone.

And please if there are no plans to bring back useful functionalities that existed in older windows version and FOR WHATEVER reason removed...
AT least make sure to bring them back in future windows versions.

Because linux is seeming more and more enticing with each version of windows showing bad decisions like this...

 

 

 

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