Re: Does anyone else dislike Xcode 4?
Re: Does anyone else dislike Xcode 4?
- Subject: Re: Does anyone else dislike Xcode 4?
- From: Wade Tregaskis <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:28:41 -0700
> Well, one thing I just discovered in Xcode 4 and is already annoying me highly is that the app somehow uses CoreAnimation so that now, even though I'm running on battery, it forces the OS to use the Radeon video chipset instead of the integrated Intel's one, which is less power hungry. That is really not good as I go from having 7+ hours (theoretically) to 4+ hours. I'm going to fill a bug as I don't see any reason why Xcode needs to use fancy animations. That really defeats the purpose of having 2 video chipsets.
Xcode's not the only developer tool that does (or at least, did do) this. The easiest workaround - which actually comes in handy at other times, too, so it's not bad at all - is to use gfxCardStatus, a free menu item that let's you manually control which GPU is used.
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