Nvidia Optimus

Since my laptop ,and hopefully these of some other members to get more supprt , is using the Nvidia Optimus Technology, which has caused some known problems in gaming, I am hoping this technology will be supported in Planetary Annihilation?

In some games, who don't fully support Optimus there occures no GPU-switch. Therefore the game runs on the integrated graphic card instead of the dedicated GPU. In some games you can't change the graphical settings on high performance because the game doesn't recognise the dedicated GPU.

I dont think Uber can make sure that PA will work on any given piece of computer. There are some weird setups out there.
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NVIDIA Optimus has a control panel in which you yourself can specify what EXE's should use which GPU. I have the system myself and have not had issues with it yet.

Even with that, there are some weird issues with some games...

I dont think PA should be optimized for notebooks PA should be optimized for desktop pc's since they are a ton more powerfull and more ppl use them for games.

I can't see why. I have a very powerful laptop (but with Nvidia Optimus) and I want to be able to play PA on it.

Just desktop pc's should be first priority since most ppl use those.

I think that the first priority may be performance on the servers given that they will be doing most of the crunching.

This is actually false. The market for desktop PC's has fallen behind the market for laptops and tablets. Which is to say that more laptops/tablets are being sold than desktops.

Source:
http://articles.businessinsider.com/200 ... i-macbooks

just because more tablets are being sold does NOT mean that the target audience of PA is gonna play them on tablets I am pretty sure that the majority of people will play PA on a stationary computer. Which of course does not mean that a "gamer"-notebook should have any troubles playing PA.

what I always wondered if the numbers for desktop pcs in those comparisons just contain sales for complete pc sets or if their also contain projections based on sales for parts used to combine your own pc.
From those I know, who use the PC for more than standard office stuff (either work or gaming), no one uses of the shelves PCs. Sure, sales for the standard web/home office PC will have dropped in the last years towards notebooks/tablets, but the rest?

just wondering if these statistics are really useful.

I'm not proposing that Uber should optimize their system for laptops or specific systems. But the Optimus technology is in quite some laptop-systems who run under Nvidia GPU's.

What I am proposing is the following:
a. It would be great if they would allow manual adaptation of the graphic settings. There are some games who limit your graphic settings by the GPU that they recognise (for example GTA IV).

b. It would also be great if they would recognise multiple GPU's. I don't think this is something new or hard to achieve, since in stationary systems you could also run multiple GPU's (for example SLI from Nvidia). I'm not sure if I can make the comparison.

I know you can change the priority of your GPU (integrated vs dedicated) for different programs, as mentioned before, but that still limits your graphic settings in some games.

I still hope the game will run without any problems, but there we got the alpha/beta for to see. It just seemed interesting to throw it on this forum.

Yes Optimus makes sense here.

Great!!

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I hardly know ppl who use their laptop for games. Most of the time its for school, work, office etc. Laptops are usually quite a bit slower than their desktop counterparts.

Tablets? PA is gonna be played on the tablet? I really doubt that.

Desktop pc's being first priority doesnt mean laptops should be ignored btw.

There should not be any 'priorities' for any kind of PCs at all, since it's the same platform.
And I know a lot of people (including me) playing on a laptop rather than on a desktop computer. Open your mind.

Yep, laptop here, and an ATI card. Been kind of annoyed with all the games going towards NVIDIA.

Just read they're making it available to desktops too.
I'm getting flashbacks to the Voodoo 3D cards and pass-thru cables here...

There is no practical different between laptop/desktop.

I actually do the majority of my coding on a laptop just because I do so much of it at home. It's difficult for me to get office time where I'm not interrupted.