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Aerial Apple TV screen saver for Windows
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Possible crash on laptops with dual graphics (and solution) #189

Open ozgunawesome opened 5 years ago

ozgunawesome commented 5 years ago

Hey, I tried to set this up on a laptop with dual graphics (Intel integrated and Nvidia discrete) running Win10 1809. Neither the .exe nor .scr was working. Just black screen and crash.

Below are the relevant system details:

         Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 17763) (17763.rs5_release.180914-1434)
                Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
                   Memory: 8192MB RAM
          DirectX Version: DirectX 12
         User DPI Setting: 120 DPI (125 percent)
       System DPI Setting: 120 DPI (125 percent)
          DWM DPI Scaling: UnKnown
                 Miracast: Available, with HDCP
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Supported
           DxDiag Version: 10.00.17763.0001 64bit Unicode
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Display Devices
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           Card name: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600
           Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

Solution: I realized I had set the NVIDIA card as default in GeForce Properties. So I went to the NVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings add an override for C:\Windows\aerial.scr.exe to force it to run on integrated graphics. That solved my problem.

Just leaving this here as reference, hope it helps others..

(You might want to add this to the README.md as well)