Mac desktop application forces discrete graphic card

[hertogjoris]

Hi,

On my laptop (MacBook Pro mid-2010), Spotify (1.0.42.151.g19de0aa6) always uses the discrete graphic card (both the application itself as well as the helper deamon). Consequently, Spotify drains the battery.

After investigating the issue, I found that there were more users experiencing the problem, which was fixed using the following: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1734/_index.html, which Spotify has now adapted (which I found when I looked at Info.plist). However, this problem only fixes the issue for 2011 and later MBPs. Other's suggested it was due to the advertisements shown in Spotify, but I have been using premium for years now, so that is not the issue here.

Therefore, I would like to submit this as a new issue (or old issue that has not yet been fixed).

Thanks,

Joris

[Dreadlord]

Hello @hertogjoris,

Welcome to Spotify Community!

I am going to send this to the staff and see what they can suggest.

Meanwhile, can you please let me know what is your operating system?

[hertogjoris]

Dear Dreadlord,

Thank you for your reply. I am currently using MacOS Sierra 10.12.1
(16B2555).

[Dreadlord]

Hello @hertogjoris,

Can you try a clean reinstallation? Check out the steps here.

If the issue persists after that, can you send me a screenshot of your energy settings while running Spotify?

[user-removed]

I have a 2015 MBP and the newest version of Spotify still showed that "Spotify Helper" required high performance graphics. A clean reinstall appears to have resolved this for me. Thanks!

[Mara_F]

Thanks for letting us know @user-removed, we're glad everything's working!

 hertogjoris, can you try reinstalling the app? Does that help? 

Hope to hear back from you soon. 

[RodrigoPalma]

Hi guys!

We're closing this thread as we haven't heard back from you in a while. Don't hesitate to give us a shout if you still have the same issue.

Have a great day 🙂

[balronek]

 I am having this issue with MBP 2015. I have checked the plist.info file and the autoswitch features is turned on (as that was supposed to be a solution). Spotify is still using dedicated gpu, which sucks.

I tried reinstalling, didn't help. One of the spotify helpers is still requiring the gpu.

[salzamt]

hey, this is still happening for me. any plans to get this fixed?

[Woet]

A clean install fixed it for me.

[balronek]

Lucky you! 🙂