Choosy seems to request NVidia 330M graphics when running
Choosy seems to request that the system switch to the NVidia 330M graphics card rather than integrated graphics when running on the latest Macbook Pro.
This is detected using : http://codykrieger.com/gfxCardStatus/
The downside of this is that it can have a significant impact on battery life, especially given that it's a background/resident app.
Choosy 1.1 on Mavericks and El Capitan no longer requires the high performance graphics card.
The “Energy” tab in Activity Monitor indicates Choosy is behaving well: no requirement for the high performance graphics card, even when the browser prompt is displayed, and a very low average energy impact, even after several days of heavy use.
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Mel commented
Do not buy! This is now tagged as abandon ware. No further support will be provided.
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Anonymous commented
Sorry to see Choosy dead ::::RIP::::
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MRedrup commented
Update please, we're nearing the 2 year mark since this issue was reported..
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Aurimas Mikalauskas commented
Dear Choosy Admin, it's been more than a year since you have started working on this. How is it going?
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MRedrup commented
is there any further progression on this issue? It's been over a year.
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Admingeorgebrock (Admin, Choosy) commented
Brilliant James, thank you. I've spent days reading around this, but I'd not come across that particular information. Update coming very soon.
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James Dempster commented
Hi All,
I found a fix for the issue.
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#qa/qa1734/_index.htmlEditing the Info.plist which is in:
/Users/james/Library/PreferencePanes/Choosy.prefPane/Contents/Resources/Choosy.app/ContentsThen add in NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching value to true either using VIM or Xcode.
Restart the Choosy process and voila, no more switching graphics.Now I don't have to kill Choosy everytime I need a bit more battery life! :)
Hopefully the developer, George can make this change for everyone in the app.
Thanks,
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James Dempster commented
Really looking forward to having this completed. It's the only app which drinks my battery juice.
How long before we get an update?
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Ronny commented
This suggestion is a year old, and it really bugs me! I absolutely love Choosy, but I'm finding myself just not using it because I don't want to switch to the discrete graphics card. Please fix it!
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Karagath commented
What is the status of this feature? It is a big heat issue having the discrete graphics on all the time, even when nothing is really running, because choosy was invoked once upon a time.
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Tom Brice commented
I love Choosy and use it all the time. I am considering turing it off due to this issue - it means that if I click a link that invokes Choosy the discrete graphics card is triggered and never reverts back to integrated graphics.
Thanks for your work - I love the product but I cannot continue to use it unless this is resolved. Hope it's an easy fix.
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rizwank commented
Oh, that suggestion was from me, before I logged in. Sorry for the double vote.