Hi everybody,
I am not sure if this has been answered before, but I haven’t been able to find any solution. My problem is that several GPU heavy applications often crash during start-up. By trying several times, changing the Performance value in Power Manager and so on, they will eventually start up, but then I can’t figure out why it suddenly works - what fixes it one time might not work the next time. I have a ThinkPad W520 with NVIDIA Quadro 2000M and the Intel HD Graphics, and I suspect that the problem is somehow caused by the switching between the graphic cards. In the NVIDIA Control panel I have set all applications to run with High Performance NVIDIA processor (this was also set when I installed the applications that crash). I always have the computer set to “High Performance” in the Power Manager when working, so one would think that the NVIDIA GPU would be active. I have tried changing the “Run with graphics processor->” with both graphic cards, but the programs still crash most of the time I try to start them up.
Programs that crash during start-up include Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max 2012, Next Limit RealFlow 2012, Adobe After Effects and more.
I hope someone has got a solution to this problem; it is so annoying spending 5 minutes opening my programs on a computer I thought was built for this purpose.
Thank you!!
Stian
