Vivaldi 1.11 and dGPU on portable Macs
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Since I installed Vivaldi 1.11 on my Macbook Pro Late 2011, always fires up the dGPU (AMD Radeon 6750M) instead Intel HD3000, like before. Is there any process to boot up Vivaldi with the integrated GPU solely?
macOS 10.12.6
Vivaldi 1.11.917.43 (Stable channel) (64 bits) -
@impreza233 Is GPU hardware acceleration on your system enabled by default or was your GPU blacklisted by the Chromium team but reenabled via vivaldi://flags?
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@xyzzy My GPU was blacklisted but reenabled via vivaldi://flags in "Override GPU List" option. I know that the Intel HD3000 isn't a very good graphics card, but, in my generation of MacBook Pro, using the dedicated graphics is a risk because of logic board failing...
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@impreza233 Google's Chromium developers blacklist GPUs for a number of different reasons, and no GPU hardware acceleration would be the official supported configuration for your system from a Chromium perspective. That's not necessarily a bad thing, and I think the end goal (from a Vivaldi perspective) is to get to a point where it will no longer be necessary to fight the GPU blacklist in order to enable video playback on any system, but to simply work regardless of whether hardware acceleration (in the Chromium code) is enabled or disabled.
My advice would be to file a bug indicating that you cannot play video on your system due to a blacklisted GPU, and that overriding the blacklist is not a viable option for you due to the reasons that you mentioned earlier. When you get a confirmation email from the bug tracking system Issue Collector, reply to it and attach a page capture of the
vivaldi://gpu
page so that the developers are aware of your configuration as they fix (rework?) some of the video playback code on macOS. -
use gfxCardStatus to keep always using iGPU
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