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steveschow / gfxCardStatus

This is a fork of gfxCardStatus, this fork will handle integrated-only mode a little better
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Version 2.4.4i just installed and working well in El Capitan #29

Open demianint opened 6 years ago

demianint commented 6 years ago

Hi, just wanted to let people know that I am trying Steve´s forked version on my MBP mid 2010 with El Capitan running and it seems to be working fine (only an hour now, will keep you posted on the evolution), neither Chrome nor Photoshop have triggered the automatic switch to Discrete mode which was happening and driving me nuts with the original 2.3 version. So my million thanx to be shared 75/25 between @codykrieger and @steveschow for keeping my MBP going as time goes or flies by... I changed the HDD two years back for an SSD and updated at the same time to El Capitan and it is performing like a 2016 MBP! Only thing that is limiting me at this time is the impossibility to hook up to an external monitor or projector, if anyone knows of a workaround for this please let me know. Cheers, Demian

steveschow commented 6 years ago

The only way to get your monitor working is to forget about gfxCardStatus, that won't solve it. If you have mid 2010 MBP with nvidia display then you will have to get the capacitor replaced in order to use external display. See the readme.

demianint commented 6 years ago

@steveschow great, I have seen the online tutorials about replacing the capacitor but here in Argentina when I have asked about that possibility of repair they wanted to talk me into reballing which I had never heard of and am still not quite sure if it´s really the way (best? cheapest?) to go about fixing the issue... can you expand on this? much appreciated

steveschow commented 6 years ago

sorry you'll have to check with others, I haven't replaced mine yet because I don't know how to use a soldering iron and I haven't found someone local to do it for me either. Check the links I put on the readme, there is a video from the guy that figured it out you can contact him for more info