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		trurl42 on Jan 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Buying a laptop, check if it has nVidia Optimus, i... Having bought a laptop with a ATI Intel hybrid graphics solution in 2011: - I'm still stuck on the driver version from 2011, can't install a newer one. - Only works for DirectX, with OpenGL you can only use the Intel graphics.

nly on Jan 25, 2014 [–]

This is actually one nice thing about NVIDIA.. there are notebook drivers on their website that work with most of their mobile GPUs. I'm pretty sure you can get upstream AMD drivers working with ATI cards though... it probably requires some ini tweaks or something.

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