Taking advantage of integrated & dedicated graphics in laptop for power consumption.

Hi, so I have an Acer Swift X using Radeon integrated graphics and an RTX 3050 as the dedicated card.

The one thing Windows does well in my use-case is knowing when to utilize the integrated graphics, then transitioning over to using the dedicated GPU. If I use Firefox for web browsing/watching videos, then it will strictly use the Radeon graphics. If I start playing any game via. Steam or anything that's demanding at all, then it will transition over into using the dedicated graphics card. Is there any way I can utilise this same function (seamlessly) without having to set a bunch of manual configs?

Solution

if a programs

.desktop

.desktop

file (program shortcut file) has that in it, it will run on the dedicated gpu in bazzite as we have a patched version of switcheroo that does this (the unpatched behavior doesnt check which graphics card is the discrete one and just blindly selects whatever the non-default graphics is, which works on laptops but not on desktops :clueless: )

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HikariKnight•3/7/25, 4:09 PM

handled automatically by and a flag in the

.desktop

.desktop

file for the application. let me dig up what that flag is

HikariKnight•3/7/25, 4:09 PM

Solution

HikariKnight•3/7/25, 4:11 PM

if a programs

.desktop

.desktop

frungyOP•3/7/25, 4:12 PM

perfect

HikariKnight•3/7/25, 4:12 PM

steam has this flag by default

frungyOP•3/7/25, 4:12 PM

same with lutris?

HikariKnight•3/7/25, 4:13 PM

it should, would be really dumb if it didnt :clueless:

frungyOP•3/7/25, 4:13 PM

ok bet

HikariKnight•3/7/25, 4:13 PM

i dont use lutris so worth double checking, but im pretty sure its there

frungyOP•3/7/25, 4:13 PM

ill take a look at it

frungyOP•3/7/25, 4:13 PM

thanku for everything !!

HikariKnight•3/7/25, 4:16 PM

huh lutris does not have it actually, i will check with kyle after scale this weekend if thats supposed to be like that as i believe he uses lutris

HikariKnight•3/7/25, 4:16 PM

it will be easy for you to add it though

HikariKnight•3/7/25, 4:17 PM

then add it there under the [Desktop Entry] section and press CTRL+X to save and exit