Optimus manager breaks Hardware Acceleration.
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Hello,
I'm a long time user of Vivaldi but as of late I am having a little bit of trouble using it for a lot a things that require OpenGL and other features related to hardware acceleration.
I am a linux user and I am currently running Manjaro on my notebook. It is an Acer Aspire F5 that has both an integrated Graphics card from Intel Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) and a Nvidia 940MX.
Whenever I want to use the Nvidia I have to use the commandoptimus-manager --switch nvidia
from https://github.com/Askannz/optimus-manager.
It works great on a lot of games and other software, however in Vivaldi it seems to completely break whatever it uses to activate hardware acceleration and OpenGL related features. Is there a way to configure what graphics card Vivaldi looks at when trying to enable Hardware Acceleration?
Thanks for the help in advance !
Edit1: This is how it is shown in vivaldi:gpu when I open it using Nvidia
While it shows this when it is used with the integrated Graphics Card
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@pauloalvim
Hi, some user have issues with Nvidia cards and Vivaldi, I guess it is not an Optimus issue.
I use a Intel HD 620 on my Linux laptop and it work fine.
As video en/decode is not supported on Linux anyway there is not much advantage using the 940MX.
You can try to overwrite the block for older GPU with a flag in Vivaldi.vivaldi://flags/#ignore-gpu-blocklist
Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin Yeah, i already have that overwritten.
I can't really be changing between integrated and dedicated gpu, as every time I run optimus-manager, I have to logout and login again.
Also, it's really common for me to be running something that requires the Nvidia and vivaldi OpenGL at the same timeThanks for the help anyway