[Severe BUG] Nvidia adv Optimus display switch mechanism failing with Power-Toys in the background

[Prakyy]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.49.1

Running as admin

• Yes

Area(s) with issue?

General, Awake, ColorPicker, FancyZones, FancyZones Editor, Image Resizer, Keyboard Manager, MD Preview, Mouse Utilities, PDF Preview, PDF Thumbnail, PowerRename, PowerToys Run, Shortcut Guide, SVG Preview, SVG Thumbnail, Settings, Video Conference Mute, Welcome / PowerToys Tour window, System tray interaction

Steps to reproduce

Install power toys set as admin, startup with windows is on.

On a laptop with Nvidia Optimus technology, go to Nvidia control panel>dektop tab>show display switch notifications. Try to launch a game... an error notification will pop up saying "display switch failed".

Now close power toys and retry launching the game, the GPU should now switch without any trouble.

✔️ Expected Behavior

To not interfere with Nvidia advanced Optimus display switching mechanism

❌ Actual Behavior

It prevented a display switch and caused me hours of frustration and troubleshooting.

Other Software

Nvidia Control Panel 8.1.961.0 (latest at the time)

Nvidia Driver version 496.76 (latest at the time)

Nvidia advanced Optimus

[jaimecbernardo]

Not sure what could be causing this.

Could you please send a bug report?

Right-click on the PowerToys icon in the tray menu and select Report Bug

Drag and drop report into a GitHub comment.

Also, could you please disable the PowerToys 1 by 1 in Settings to check if we can identify which one might be causing this?
Thank you.

[ghost]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has been marked as requiring author feedback but has not had any activity for 5 days. It will be closed if no further activity occurs within 5 days of this comment.

[lindexi]

Reference : dotnet/wpf#9286