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The Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, Use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to You may need to reset your SMC as it can get locked.

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This software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the gfxCardStatus is an open-source menu bar application that keeps track of which graphics card your 2010 MacBook Pro is using at any given time, and allows you to switch between them manually. The easies way is to restart the system in Safe mode so the drivers don’t load. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of (Warning: this also resets your EFI boot configuration) License:Ĭopyright (C) 2014-2016 Bruno Bierbaumer, Andreas Heider, Malte Bargholz If you are facing weird problems a NVRAM reset could help:

MacBook Pro 8,2 (Late 2011, Non-Retina).

MacBook Pro 5,2 (Early 2009, Non-Retina).

Otherwise you will end up with a powered-down integrated graphics card and a black screen. You can enable it by setting the spoof_osx_version option in your nf. Recent versions of rEFInd have the "apple_set_os" hack built-in. REFInd version 0.10.0 or above (recommended): So to use the Intel GPU, you need to trick the EFI by using the "apple_set_os" hack either with:

switch to the dedicated GPU: dedicated.batīy default the Intel GPU gets switched off by the MacBook Pro 11,3's (and 11,5's) EFI if you boot anything but OS X. I did notice that sometimes, firing up Chrome switches to discreet but then after awhile it switches back to integrated.

switch to the integrated GPU: integrated.bat.

Run the provided scripts by right click "Run as administrator" and rebooting your machine:.

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Windows is using the MacBook's UEFI mode ( how to check).

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install_hooks.sh can be used to install Login Hooks to automate the swichting process for login/logout. gpu-switch -d enable automatic GPU switching: gpu-switch -i switch to the dedicated GPU: You need to simply enter this command: pmset -a. But there IS an alternative if you feel comfortable dabbling with the terminal app. yeah GFXCardStatus switch doesnt work properly anymore. OS X can switch between the GPUs without having to reboot the MacBook: switch to the integrated GPU: You cannot lock the GPU to either discreet or integrated because of it. Linux Usage:Īs root you can select the GPU by running gpu-switch and rebooting your machine: switch to the integrated GPU: gfxCardStatus allows users to control which graphics card is enabled - integrated or discrete - on MacBook Pro models with multiple graphics cards. Therefore use it at your own risk and don't blame us if anything breaks. This is new code and it comes without any warranty! It's completely based on reverse engineering. It aims to remove the need of booting into OS X and running gfxCardStatus v2.2.1 to switch to the integrated card. Gpu-switch is an application to switch between the integrated and dedicated GPU of dual-GPU MacBook Pro models for the next reboot.