On Mar 19, 2011, at 7:46 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: >> Is that a hardware issue then? Can someone recreate this on their hardware? > > No, it's a software thing. If you turn on CoreAnimation on one of the > dual-GPU Macs, and graphics switching is turned on, and the Mac isn't plugged > into a monitor, then the Mac will always auto-switch to the discrete GPU > because CoreAnimation always uses the discrete GPU. The same is true for > initializing an NSOpenGLView. This is normal and not an issue, unless your > app turns on CoreAnimation but doesn't actually use it.
Yes, right. I'm using layers so that's legitimate, thanks! The issue appears to be in the Dock application then which doesn't take the switch to discrete graphics very well if the app that just started happens to be the reason for that switch. Regards Markus -- __________________________________________ Markus Spoettl _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
