Posted by Jesus Zazueta on Mar 25, 2013; 9:38pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Initializing-JOGL-with-NVidia-Optimus-systems-tp4028794p4028812.html

Thanks for the tip.

Sadly, my code still defaults to the Intel card. Here's a checklist of how I setup things in my laptop under Windows:

1: Power mode is set to High Performance.
2: NVIDIA control panel is configured globally to prefer maximum performance and the use of the NVIDIA GPU over the Intel one.
3: java.exe, javaw.exe and eclipse.exe haven been added to the Applications list, specifying that the high performance graphics processor should be used.
4: Eclipse.exe is started via right click "Run with graphics processor" ... selecting the NVIDIA GPU.

But... nothing :P. OpenGL just doesn't seem to care about that configuration. I've noticed that most DirectX games do make use of the NVIDIA GPU (I can see that on the tray menu icon).

That's what lead me to believe that I may have to explicitly instruct my application to somehow use that NVIDIA GPU affinity extension. I just don't know how :P.

Anyway thanks again for your time and help!