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Dropbox preventing GPU to switch display mode
Hello
I have a gaming laptop with a discrete RTX 3070 GPU.
Nvidia control center manages the switching of the display to the integrated or the discrete GPU, depending on the needs.
It should switch to the discrete GPU when launching a game and switch back to the integrated graphics when the game is closed to save on power consumption.
This works well, except when the Dropbox app is running.
I get an error message when launching any game stating that the Nvidia container was unable to switch the display mode due to Dropbox.
Is there any way to fix this issue besides closing down the app (which instantly resolves the issue!)?
I prefer to keep Dropbox active at all times, but this issue is preventing this.
Thanks for your help!
Hi Everybody,
We have implemented a hardware acceleration toggle, and we would love if anyone experiencing this could test it out to make sure it solves the problem.
Affected users on Mac can option + click on the tray icon and disable hardware acceleration from the drop down menu.
Affected users on Windows can ctrl + click on the tray icon and disable hardware acceleration from the drop down menu.
Let us know if this works!
Regards,
Ben
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BenDBXCommunity Manager
Hi Everybody,
We have implemented a hardware acceleration toggle, and we would love if anyone experiencing this could test it out to make sure it solves the problem.
Affected users on Mac can option + click on the tray icon and disable hardware acceleration from the drop down menu.
Affected users on Windows can ctrl + click on the tray icon and disable hardware acceleration from the drop down menu.
Let us know if this works!
Regards,
Ben
I can report that with the previously mentioned Nvidia driver and Dropbox version that I don't even need to toggle the disable on the acceleration and programmatically, whatever was done has fixed the issue for me. I did attempt to toggle it both on and off and tested just to see, but it seems to work now without needing it.
It's finally fixed, after so many months of discussion )
What does hardware acceleration do? Trying to figure out if this is the cause for dropbox taking up so much memory on a macbook m1.
- Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hey jeromebayawa - thanks for joining the discussion here.
While it's not my area of expertise, hardware acceleration is a process where applications offload certain tasks to hardware in your system. You can search the web for more information.
As for the issue you mentioned about high memory consumption, are you referring to your computer's hard drive space or the CPU or RAM used when the Dropbox desktop app is running?
Thank you for your reply.
I did try to search on the use of dropbox hardware acceleration but could not get any useful results. This thread was one of the results that came up. I can understand the need for hardware acceleration on games or on apps like photoshop/illustrator but could not understand why dropbox needs hardware acceleration to sync files?
As for my system memory, If I'm working on multiple designs for clients and saving files in dropbox, it tends to use so much memory. sometimes up to 8GB of system memory or more. I usually have to close dropbox and restart it which becomes annoying if you do it 2 to 3 times in a day.
I am running an m1 14 inch macbook pro with 16gb memory so it tends to eat up most of my memory from time to time.
- Megan
Hi jeromebayawa, have you taken a look at this Help Center article for possible reasons why this might be happening and how to tackle it?
Could you also confirm the Dropbox version you're using on your end, please? You can find this by hovering your mouse over the little Dropbox icon, next to your WiFi on the menu bar.
If you could also share the processor that you're using, and the total amount of RAM on your machine, that'd be amazing.
Keep me posted, and we'll take it from there!
