FireyFly
Well-Known Member
I get what you trying to do here...
Keep in mind that modern laptops, especially gaming ones, keep their internal GPU for power saving so if you don't play games it automatically switches since it's wired internally you don't need to worry about how it happens, but lets say you turned this feature off. Then you have to take into account the fact that the GPUs cant share the same screen since it's a nightmare to make it happen, i.e. extend the desktop to certain screens trough multiple GPUs, in fact if its the same class like you have 4 of the same nVidia card in you PC you can surely do it safely, but for you this is not the case, since one is more powerful than the other and not even the same manufacturer. 1 way to go is that I think windows allows having different GPUs rendering different desktops, I cant help you much here since in Windows it really hidden, and you need apps to get this feature but 1 user can have multiple totally separated desktops at the same time and this is what you want no? then the main display would act as a "gaming desktop" with all the proper icons and the laptop's display would act as "internet desktop" again with the proper icons and apps. I think there is a way to create another desktop for a separate display, and since it's another desktop it can have its own rendering GPU, but I think there is no 2-click solution for this you have to do some research on how to get it done, if this is the way to go I could try and find an app for you
p.s.: If you google up "virtual desktop apps" some of them do the thing I'm talking about, but you one that is not virtual, I mean it does more desktops for real.
Keep in mind that modern laptops, especially gaming ones, keep their internal GPU for power saving so if you don't play games it automatically switches since it's wired internally you don't need to worry about how it happens, but lets say you turned this feature off. Then you have to take into account the fact that the GPUs cant share the same screen since it's a nightmare to make it happen, i.e. extend the desktop to certain screens trough multiple GPUs, in fact if its the same class like you have 4 of the same nVidia card in you PC you can surely do it safely, but for you this is not the case, since one is more powerful than the other and not even the same manufacturer. 1 way to go is that I think windows allows having different GPUs rendering different desktops, I cant help you much here since in Windows it really hidden, and you need apps to get this feature but 1 user can have multiple totally separated desktops at the same time and this is what you want no? then the main display would act as a "gaming desktop" with all the proper icons and the laptop's display would act as "internet desktop" again with the proper icons and apps. I think there is a way to create another desktop for a separate display, and since it's another desktop it can have its own rendering GPU, but I think there is no 2-click solution for this you have to do some research on how to get it done, if this is the way to go I could try and find an app for you
p.s.: If you google up "virtual desktop apps" some of them do the thing I'm talking about, but you one that is not virtual, I mean it does more desktops for real.