Unable to switch to Higher Performance Graphics

When I select the "Higher performance" graphics option under the "Energy Saver" tab of "System Preferences," I am prompted to log out for the change to take effect. I click logout in the dialog box and when I log back in and return to the energy saver settings, there appears a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark, which next to it reads "You must log out for this change to take effect." I have tried logging out, restarting, shutting down, resetting the PRAM; all to no avail. Any suggestions? I'm trying to get my StarCraft II on in high resolution, and it's just not working out without the higher graphics card being active.
Thanks!

I ended up having to have the logic board replaced by Apple. The board was failing or faulty, which seems to happen a lot for these models with the GeForce 9400M/9600M GT. I suspect these cards for our particular models were just not built to high quality specs and caused all sorts of issues after a few years of use.
Since the warranty/extended warranty had already run out, I had to pay for the replacement. It's not that bad of a price for a MacBook Pro that's over six years old if you considering the cost of a new MacBook Pro or iMac Desktop. Since you had your logic board replaced already, perhaps it's still under warranty? Make an appointment with the Genius Bar to have them evaluate it and test it. They can then provide you the cost for the logic board replacement if needed. There really is no fix for it, other than a new/refurbished logic board replacement from Apple.

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Macbook pro 17 turns off when switching to high performance mode

Hi guys!
My 2009 Macbook pro 17 turns off and goes dead when switching to "high performance" graphics in the energy saver controll panel.
This happens also when the battery is 100% charged. i must reconnect powersupply to reboot.
The battery is new, from june this year.

Aardal87 wrote:
I have just re installed the system. and the problem continues.
I guess ur solution isnt worth trying on a fresh system install?
It will not do any harm trying it but you are probably correct in these circumstances.
If the symptoms are consistent, then a savvy technician at an Apple store genius bar should be able to define the problem.
Ciao.

Creative Cloud background service constantly uses high-performance graphics card on MacBook Pro

On my MacBook Pro mid-2010, I recently noticed that the high-performance graphics card for some reason was constantly on. In MacBooks as of 2009, there are two graphics cards that can be used, one integrated, one PCIe. The integrated one is less powerful, but is used to preserve battery. The other one is enabled when there is a high demand for graphics power.
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Same here. Macbook Retina 15", purchased earlier this year.
Nice (and free) utility to monitor GPU-usage is:
gfxCardStatus from http://gfx.io/
Helped me to notice that it's better to quit Photoshop if not using it because it still uses the nVidia GPU if Photoshop is not even the active application (eg. running in the background).
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Cannot use Higher Performance graphic settings

Hello,
When I originally bought my Macbook Pro three weeks ago, I had no issues with going to system preferences and selecting and saving the "Higher Performance" setting for the graphics for the Power Adapter. This visibly improved graphics performance for some programs I use.
However, recently, I noticed graphics performance wasn't as expected when running on house power, and I noticed that in system preferences < Energy Saver, my graphics settings have been placed back to "better battery life" for the Power Adapter setting...I keep trying to change it back to "Higher Performance;" when I log out and back in, and re-check the Energy Saver settings, there's a message box saying that I still need to log out for the changes to save. I can log out multiple times and they never seem to save, with that message continuing to be there. If I reboot altogether, and go back to system preferences < energy saver, its back to "better battery life," as if I never made an attempt to select "Higher Performance." Ive tried repairing permissions, and I've tried repairing the disk using the start up DVD during the boot cycle, and nothing seems to help. Since this is a new computer with few items on it, I even did a clean install of the OS....still to no avail.
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my problem is simalar but different.
my new macbook pro summer 2009 2.53 has no option to switch beetween low and high performance in the energy saver pref pane.
googling i found that this is not a isolated case.
someone solved the problem extracting from a leopard dvd with pacifist the 4.0 version of the energy saver pref pane.
all this situation may be caused by the 10.5.8 update.
Hope tha someone at apple try to reserve some working hour to solve this problem with an update instead of pushing hard on the snow leo launch
Max

System won't boot after switching to higher performance

I recently installed snow leopard on my 2009 MacBook Pro. Things have going going very smoothly so far. However, I have had one setback. When switching to a different energy saver mode (either from higher performance to energy saver or vice versa), the computer won't boot back up. It will sit at the blue screen with the spinning wheel. Sometimes the wheel will freeze and the dock and my desktop will show up, but the computer is frozen. This forces me to do a manual shut down. This happens about every other time I try to boot my system into a different energy saver mode. Anybody else have a problem with this?

Hi DPer & welcome to the forums...
Try resetting some of the hardware involved (PRAM~NVRAM). See this Apple KB for details, etc.:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
Can't hurt to try, and apparently this has helped others recently.
If still no joy, did you update via Software Update or did you download the combo? If you used Software Update, get the Combo updater instead and re-apply:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL959

T61 won't switch to Increased Performance (graphics)

Just got my first T61, refurbished, love it but - I understand these have an integrated GPU plus a 'discrete' video card, and should switch between the two.
When I attempt to switch to the discrete GPU, I get the graphic in the middle of the screen that hangs for several minutes, before it finally 'gives up' and stays in low-performance mode (the on-board GPU). I have the low-perf -with-an-exclamation-point icon in the Taskbar at all times.
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Someone has installed graphic drivers for the wrong model thinkpad, probably a T400 or T500 on your system. I've encountered this exact same condition. You'll probably also find that you don't have a legit windows seven on your system either. On the system I was working on it came from an ebay seller that was using a windows seven restore disc for a newer model on some T61 systems, it seemed to install and work, but the graphic problem you describe was a dead give-a-way that something fishy was going on. I tried removing the graphcs drivers and installing the proper ones, but that didn't stop the prompt your getting to select graphic performance, and to make matters worse, that prompt would fail to respond because the hardware wasn't present and there was no way to close it either, you just had to wait it out until it eventually closed on it's own (timed out). I eventually reformatted the drive and installed the Vista that the machine was licensed to use according to the sticker on the bottom.
If I were you I'd check your COA, since no T61 models shipped with windows seven, you'll probably find it's a vista sticker, or perhaps XP. There are some exceptions where major retailers put legit windows seven on refurb computers like this, but most are not. You can try to install the correct drivers and perhaps you'll have better luck then I did, as I was never able to get rid of that annoying popup that wouldn't go away or respond at all.
If you do find your license is for vista, if it's business edition or higher you can install 64bit or 32bit versions. If you have over 3gb of ram you should consider going with 64bit. The same is true with your windows seven home premium, if you have a valid COA for that windows version you can install 64bit version instead.
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HT3207 Help, trying to switch my computer to high performance but not there

Hey im just wondering how to switch my computer from energy performance to high performance, im going in system prefernces, energy saver and the option isnt there, would it be somewhere elsE

That's for laptops that have a dedicated graphics card in addition to the CPU based graphics and Apple has allowed the ability for one to chose to run the dedicated graphics all the time, which consumes more power than allowing the computer to automatically switch between CPU and dedicated graphics on it's own.
If your machine has only CPU graphics or it's older and there is no switching option, then you won't see that choice in Energy Saver.
There is no "higher performance" graphics option in the terms if checked will give better graphics performance.
The "higher performance" just means it will use the more powerful graphics for low graphics uses that could save energy if the CPU graphics was used instead.
So it's a Energy Saver choice and only if have both types of graphics and Apple has allowed the option to choose.
Some might have been having issues with 3D games when the CPU graphics switch over to dedicated graphics, thus Apple started including that as a option recently.

T400 Cannot switch to energy saving graphics

I have not been able to switch to energy saving graphics for some reason.
I keep getting the following message.
"System cannot enable Energy-Saving Graphics
Close any 3D or video applications and disconnect external displays. Then switch graphic processors."
I've used dual monitors before, and played games before, and I've switched back and for from "Energy Saving" and "High performance" before, but it seems I can no longer do it.
I don't have anything open, and I am using 1 monitor. I even made sure that pressing "Fn+F7" it shows "Computer only".
I don't know what to do cause it's eating at my battery life when I don't even need the dedicated graphics right now. But I don't want to turn it off in the bios completely, because I need it sometimes

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High Performance or Energy Saver Mode???

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In Higher Performance mode you are using a different GPU - the 9600 instead of the 9400 - and it's possible for both GPUs to be used together to improve video and graphic performance. There's also a potential difference in memory usage. The 9600 GPU has dedicated video RAM while the 9400 GPU uses shared RAM, that is part of the physically installed RAM. If you switch to Higher Performance then restart the computer you will recapture the 256 MBs of RAM shared with the 9400 GPU.
As eww has said the 9600 GPU has much higher performance capabilities, requires more power, uses additional dedicated RAM, and therefore generates more heat and consumes more power from the battery if you operate off the AC adaptor.

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Unable to Launch Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 using High-Performance on AMD Radeon Graphic Card

I have been unable to launch Adobe Premiere Pro since installing it with the error message "Adobe Premiere Pro could not find any capable video play modules. Please update your video display drivers and start again"
Here are my specs:
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Intel i5 2.5 ghz processor
AMD Radeon 6470M graphics card
The only occasion during which I have successfully launched Premiere Pro was after reverting to the default graphics card on my computer and uninstalling AMD Radeon, otherwise, I have tried to change Premiere Pro to run on High-Performance on Catalyst Control Center to no avail, I do not wish to revert to the Standard Graphics Card as it slows down my computers performance one hell of a lot, neither do I wish to have to constantly uninstall and reinstall my AMD Radeon Graphics Card when I use Premiere Pro. Thank you for your time.

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- using Device Manager under Control Panel, AMD Radeon 6470M was verified to be up-to-date
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- My graphics card is up-to-date as verified by lenovo
- Intel (R) HD Graphics Card now up-to-date
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- when disabled, computer reverts to vgasave instead of Radeon
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- After updating my Intel card, Catalyst Control Center reported CCC was not supported by the current display adapter
- CCC worked after rolling back Intel card
From what I infer, I believe the problem to root from my intel card being the main card used, if there is anyway to switch my radeon card to the default instead of the Intel card, do tell me, I believe this may solve the problem, I apologise for troubling you guys, and I'm starting to feel that I shouldn't be troubling Adobe with my problem with AMD, this discussion is probably really out of place but I hope it will help out others with a similar problem.

I Can't Switch between 'power-saving GPU' and 'High-Performance GPU' in Catalyst Control Center

Hi,
Whatever if my computer was only on the battery or was only plugged in to the main power supply. In Catalyst Control Center, I noticed that 'High-Performance GPU' was always selected', although the 'automatically select power-saving GPU when on battery' was enabled. Also, When I tried to switch into the 'power-saving GPU', there was no response at all. However, when my laptop was only on the battery, I noticed the the try of switching into 'Power-Saving GPU' results in shutting down my computer suddenly.
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Brightness unadjustable for "High Performance" in Switchable Graphics Card Technology

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I have just transitioned to Windows 7 Professional on my Thinkpad R400(2787-A31)
However, after installing the Thinkpad Switchable Graphics Card driver, i am unable to adjust my brightness if i am using the High Performance mode. My laptop comes with ATi Radeon 3470 and Intel GMA 4500MHD.
I have already installed most of the drivers, and after some testing i realised that it was the switchable graphics driver that cause this problem. Before installation of this driver, i was on the ATi Radeon all the while and i can change the brightness.
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Thank you very much for solving the problem.
The key solution lies with the BIOS update. For people who cannot get the tool to work(mine keep giving an error message), there's an alternativie BIOS update utility at http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-70351
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Is there any advice on the Graphics: Better battery life / Higher performance options in the Energy Saver System Preferences? I’m wondering whether to do this on with astronomy programs Voyager and Starry Night. {So far, attempts to use OpenGL in Starry Night have crashed my machine.}
Or maybe this is all more a gamer thing?
Certainly there does seem to be a noticeable battery hit with Higher Performance on. And it doesn’t seem possible to opt for Higher Performance only when the power cable is plugged in.

It's mostly a gamer thing. If your astronomy apps work OK when you're using the Better Battery Life setting, don't bother opting for Higher Performance.
You're right: you can't opt to use Higher Performance only when the power cable is plugged in, and have the machine switch automatically to Better Battery Life whenever you unplug the adapter. You must log out and back in again to make the switch, whether the machine is plugged in or not.

MSI GS60 Ghost Pro Golden Edition - A Combination of Stylish and High Performance.

I have no idea who can say no to this shining and charming beauty....
The BackStory
When I studied at graduate school, I bought my first laptop, Asus F3J, of my life and brought it to school everyday. Actually it was a 2.9kg around laptop for gaming and I felt like carry a heavy brick. It was quite inconvient and kind of suffer for a person like me who was not doing fitness. After I graduated from school and was being a member of society, I decided to find a laptop that was much lighter and easier to bright to work. Toshiba R830 was what I chose, but this time, the performance of playing some hardcore game wasn’t good enough since it doesn’t have a discrete graphics card.
I started to believe there is a trade off between perforamnce and weight of laptop with these two experience. Until one day, I came across with MSI GS60 Ghost Pro at Computex 2014, it was a notebook weigh just around 2kg and uncompromising with high performance. In more detail, It had core I7 CPU、High-end GTX graphics card and two 256MB SSD within it. From that day, I know it is the notebook am looking for, it is a note book I can bring to work and also play game at home. Furthermore, MSI is going to issue the limited Golden edition of it around the end of year, it gave me one more reason to buy this “good stuff”, because both me and my girl think gold is the most fashion color in recent year, just like iphone. So that is the backstory, now i just have the golden one and is going to unbox it for you.
The Main Specification
MSI GS60 Ghost Pro 2QE Golden Edition:
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•   OS: Windows 8.1
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•   Memory Supplied: 16G 2*8GB DDR3L 1600
•   Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX970M GDDR5 3GB
•   Storage: 2 x 256GB M.2 SSD + 1TB 7200RPM HDD
•   Wireless Lan: Killer 802.11 a/c
The Unboxing
It is a really big one, please do drive your car while buying this NB from the shop.
Inside the main brown shipping box, there are MSI stylish back bag and the a black branded carry case.
The back back is grey color with good material quality, it also a simple and fashion design which is suitable for young or stylish worker. The sense of touch is also good.
There are several layers inside the bag, even more, a shock-absorbing laptop sleeve in it. What a surprise!!
In the big black branded carry case. There are two black box, one is for accessory. One is for the main role “GS60” with sponge to protect it as you can see in the photo.
Let see the accessory box first, a MSI gaming mouse、a MSI/SteelSeries Flux headset、a keyboard protector and a mouse pad.
The mouse has red light shining on both side when it connect to the laptop. It’s really a gaiming stuff! We can also see the double braided cord that improved the durability.
As “+” and “-“ these buttons in the middle of the mouse, user can adjust the sensity of the mouse instantly by these two bottons in the game. No need to waste your time finding the adjument UI within the game. It is such a good benefit for a gamer.
The Flux headset has ear cushions with mesh-cloth material it let you feel comfortable when wear it. You also can find out the color of the shell beside the headset can be changed, one pair is MSI design in red color, the other one is pure black one.
It also has a convenient design that the earmuff can be folded, in order to make the headset into a plat one and easy to put in your bag.
The performance of the headset is high-end and highs that don’t get brittle. About the deep bass, it also quite stunning. Overall, it can make the music carry listener’s heart.
It deserves you to put it on the top of your gaming headset list.
Here we open another black box, the GS60 is packaging by the non-woven cloth.
There are also the power adaptor、power cord and mini displayport to D-sub cable.
By the way, the power adapter is 25.53 mm thick and 0.52kg. weigh, 19.5V and 7.7A output.
Moreover, there are instruction manuals、several driver CDs and even two military dog tag with MSI logo, actually I am not a military lover, so I am going to use them as a key ring but not to hang on my neck.
Finally, let us see a royal-like GS60 Ghost Pro Golden…
Using Mg-Li alloy as the material, its chasis gains the advantage of both ultra-light and solid.
According to MSI official website, the idea of design comes from the stealth fighter, so it shows dynamic streamline in its design. Beside the visual effect, it makes you feel comfortable when typing due to the slimmer front edge and solid palm rest. The high gloss finish and bright gold will reflect light, so it change color slightly in different lighting condition. Overall, it delivery supreme visual treat.
To see a more apparent golden color, I put it on my sofa with yellow background.
Shinging and charming….
The fancy muscle curve and hire line surface make it elegant and gorgeous.
The shield and the MSI logo, they are delicated design without roughness.
The black color keycap contrast with the golden chasis apparently.
The touchpad looks cool as well, the material it made let the surface being anti-skidding and you wont leave your fingerprint on it.
It has Dynaudio speaker and Steelseries keyboard these two famous brand as it high-end equipment. 4 channel speakers and comfortable tactile keyboard. Moreover, the Graphics card it equiped is GTX 970M,
One of the lastest high-end Nvidia GTX graphics card. It is the first gaming notebook to equip GTX 970M .No doubt MSI regard themselves as the leader brand of gaming.
Sound Blaster Cinema 2+Dyanudio, Bravo~~
Let’s check the connectivity of this beauty.
No ports but seried of cooling vents at the rear panel,in order to let air flow and palm rest feeling.
being better.
The left side of it located the microphone (line out) and headphone (line in) jack, two USB 3.0 ports, the power connector socket and a security port. Also the vent close to the rear panel. The metal golden jack can isolate much more noice and enhance the reality of music as not being distortion.
The right side of GS60 located an USB 3.0 port, card reader, Mini DisplayPort, HDMI port, and GB LAN (RJ45). GS60 Ghost Pro can support 2 external moniotr with mini display and HDMI port. When playing PRG game, you can use the main one to play game, the other one can show a walkthrough. The last one, you can even use skype or outlook to connect others.
The front side you can see the LED to show some fuction status. Such as the battary status and bloothtooth has been turned on or not..etc.
From bottom of this notebook you can see the battery is not removable, I guess the idea probably come from iphone. In fact, I seldomly remove the battery when I using a laptop, unless it really heavy to carry. But this time, GS60 is not heavy, so it wont be a problem to me.
I used the scaler to measure the actual weight and ruler to see how thin it is, the result cames out 19.95mm thin and 2.1kg weight. Is it really a gaming machine I used to think of?! Such an ultra-book style.
As I know, all the gaming notebook used to be black and silver color, there are few gaming notebook with others color. MSI this time has find its way to make a breakthrough. Of course, the creative thinking and the adventurous action is what we need in gaming world!!
In a word, as you can see from the picture above ,the metallic feel of it is so attractive!!It is the most stylish and creative gaming notebook I have ever seen.
All of above are the unboxing of hardware part.let’ talk about some function and feature of this treasure.
Dragan Gaming Center which is preinstalled in this MSI laptop. With this application, you can monitor the status of the important elements in the system. You can also quick start a game or an utility through it.
Fn+F7="Shift", according to the official website, the key can be used to change the mode of the notebook in 3 status, the default "Sport"mode、"Comfort" mode and "Green mode", it is a adjustment function to control the CPU and GPU workload in order to balance the performance and temperature
Use "Shift" to switch the mode you prefer.
Green- System locks both GPU and CPU chip temp.
Comfort- System locks GPU chip temp and dynamic adjusts the GPU chip temp
Sport- Defaut and without any control.
I am not afraid about the high temperature and noise from fans, so I like to use the default one, Sport mode~
If you are playing a game in the library, please do choose Green mode to keep the fan from being busy.
The "Shift" is MSI exclusive function, the idea comes from the shifting gear in automobile.
Here comes another interesting feature, which is called Killer Double Shot Pro.With this function,
the GB LAN and Wireless LAN act like combined togather and user can acquire the bandwith from both.
Killer Netwok Manager UI
This network technology also offers you a smooth background when playing game, because you can set the gaming applications as higher priority to use the bandwith than others. What a bravo feature!!
The highest resolution of GS60 Ghost Pro is 2880*1620 which is also called 3K,
as you can see from the screenshot below, when playing game you gain much more visual delight.
With the HDMI and mini display output, you can enjoy a 1+2 matrix display function.
With the XSplit Gamecaster preintalled in GS60, you can share your game just in time through live streaming while playing it. however, I won't use this function because I don't wanna share my skill to the others, hahaha~~
The Steal Series Engine, it is my favorite. You can set the keypress macro、text macro or lauch application just in one key. For example, while playing Leaque of Legend, we always need to press Q、W、E、R、T
immediately, but with keypress macro function, you can trigger them just in one key. Quite convient, isn't it?
You can also choose the color you want for the keyboard backlit with Steal Series Egine. This function shows the gaming feature indeed.
That's see the multi-color backlit of it. What a show off!!!
Below is the hardware information showed by Nvidia Experience UI and GPU Z
GeForce GTX 970M with DDR5 3G and I7-4710HQ!!
I can't wait to see the 3D MARK 11 P score...
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For 3D MARK Fire Strike, it got 6515 at sport mode. I have to say that GS60 Ghost Pro punches above its weight.
The result of Valley Benchmark 1.0 is below, score 1560 and FPS is 37.3.
Testing the Call of duty Ghost with FRAPS, while play the game, it goes smoothly and the fps showed at top-left is around 100~200. As you can see the delicated scenery and character there, it seems like act in the reality.
The sequencial read of these two SSD is 1022MB/s, it features from the Super RAID technology. Applying the RAID 0 technical usually used in server into SSD to make the IOPS much better.
Take a look at its outward appearance again, bring it oudoor to see its color under natural light.
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I would like to say, the GS60 Ghost Pro Golden is Lamborghini in gaming laptop!! It will be all the rage.

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