![]() Generally speaking, unless you are doing heavy graphics processing, or trying to drive external displays, you can live without the discrete GPU chip and run with the intel integrated graphics. Now, gfxCardStatus keeps it operational as a backup server with lots of storage attached. gfxCardStatus allowed me to continue using it until I finally got a new laptop. ![]() I have 2011 15" Macbook Pro where the GPU failed. The above does not work on Sierra and beyond, HOWEVER, this version works on High Sierra: You can force a Macbook Pro to use the Integrated intel graphic via gfxCardStatus This may allow your MBP to run normally, although it will have reduced graphics performance when performing demanding graphics tasks. It will allow your MBP to run on integrated graphics only, bypassing the discrete GPU which has the issues. This is a free menu bar application that keeps track of which graphics card your MacBook Pro is using at any given time. Install gfxCardStatus ( and set it to 'i' (integrated graphics only). It is not uncommon for this to happen in Macs as old as yours. The panic report should have " panic" in the file name.īut from what little you show, you might have a failing discrete GPU chip. This is on a 2017 MBP with gfxCardStatus v2.5 on macOS 10.14.6, but was the same on many previous versions of either. ![]() I will ask over at FreeMind what can be done.Finder -> Go -> Go to Folder -> /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports Clicking 'Integrated Only' repeatedly does not help, and it doesn't matter whether I start from 'Discrete Only' being active (which does work properly) or from 'Dynamic Switching'. ![]() The only way to make the integrated GPU active, again, is to kill the dependent process. gfxCardStatus shows that OneDrive continues to remain dependent on the discrete GPU. Open laptop Expected result: Integrated GPU in use Actual result: Discrete GPU in use, checkmark moved to Dis. When the dropdown is closed, the discrete GPU remains active. Steps to reproduce: Set Integrated Only Run Chrome and open something that would activate discrete GPU Close laptop Wait a bit. As soon as you want to open/create a new file, the creation of a window fails: Short flash and the main menu (the application stub I guess) re-renders shortly. If I click the menubar icon to open the dropdown, the discrete GPU becomes active (as indicated by the 'd'). But you then only see the main menu (the application stub I guess). You see the startup dialog ("Freemind 1.0.1": Initializing this, that, bla bla) until the app is ready. Removing JVMRuntime=jdk1.7.0_45.jdk starts the app with the iGPU indeed but then does not work. Jdiskreport 1.4.1: After having added NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching=TRUE to the ist it then launches with the internal GPU and functions normally!įreeMind 1.0.1: ist was shipped with NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching=TRUE and NSHighResolutionCapable=TRUE. Setting NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching to TRUE indeed prevents the enforced use of discrete GPU usage! But not for all Java apps! I tested these: Update as of : The newest generally available macOS + Java today is: Unfortunately this option is not included in the standard JVM distribution from Oracle. Otherwise the system uses the discrete graphics by default. This gives a Java application the power of using the integrated card. There is a special option which has to be specified in the ist file of the launcher of the application: NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching
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