Feature request for Vivaldi on macOS (disable the use of the dedicated GPU option)
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This option that Opera has (in the attached image), could it be added to Vivaldi? A disable the use of the dedicated GPU option (I can run 2 VMs just fine on the integrated GPU, and Chromium has a few bugs with Nvidia GPUs)
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@chas4 I'll ask about this again internally. I'm not sure how Opera was able to do this... Mac-specific code? Perhaps they blacklisted the eGPU? ...but hopefully the Vivaldi team can be inspired to come up with a creative solution.
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@xyzzy Don't think their was a backlist (I have an ISP that has very bad code on their live tv streaming site (they are forcing dedicated GPU for a 360 resolution video, I can run 3 guest VMs on the integrated GPU just fine), I reported the site bug over a year ago to them and they refuse to do anything even tho I have given them evidence and explained it to them 13+ times. I even filed a bug report with Apple about their site. Would be nice to prevent this by blocking the forced use of the dedicated GPU (I think some code in the ISPs site thinks both macOS 10.13 & macOS 10.14 are both Mac OS X 10.1). Vivaldi for some reason starts with the integrated GPU most of the time, then some text or a dialog box and forced dedicated GPU.
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@chas4 In my opinion, the real fix should ideally come from Apple; there should be an option in the Energy Saver system preferences to disable the discrete GPU while on battery power.
Re: Vivaldi: to my knowledge, there's nothing in their code to explicitly force-enable the discrete GPU; it just uses the underlying Chromium engine and that code does whatever it does with the GPU resources that are available. As for when the Chromium code engages the discrete GPU, it depends mainly on the sites that are visited and also, to some extent, how much "eye candy" is enabled in the Vivaldi UI because the UI itself is also rendered by Chromium.
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@xyzzy I think they can use some sort of Chromium code (which is what Opera is using I think for the option in the screenshot).
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@xyzzy Not sure Apple will as I think Apple took Nvidia to court due to big issues with the Nvidia GPUs that are very unstable and I think many were defective