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If you have a Thunderbolt port you can...
- Use an external graphics card. This is a supported configuration.
- If the manufacturer designed the Thunderbolt port to support both integrated graphics and dedicated graphics this may also be possible but it is NOT guaranteed to work because there is a lot of variation between manufacturers and the software they bundle with them. Therefore this isn't a supported configuration. If it does support hybrid graphics / graphics switching in the BIOS (it has a mux switch). You would use a Thunderbolt to Display Port cable with the PSVR2 adapter.
These are the considerations...
- Does your computer have either a Thunderbolt port or Type-C Display Port?
- Is it a gaming laptop or video editing laptop? Those are likely to support that feature (but it's a guess whether it will load with the PSVR2).
The main branded laptop manufacturers bundle their software to make it easier to customize the computer. They usually have a feature to change from integrated graphics to dedicated graphics, or a hybrid mode to gaming mode or performance mode which does the same thing (use the dedicated graphics card instead of the integrated graphics).
Nvidia also includes the Nvidia Control Panel software, that might indicate if the type-C or Thunderbolt port supports dedicated graphics before you buy an adapter.
In Nvidia Control Panel you would view the 3D settings section, and click the Manage 3D Settings link, then you would select the Preferred graphics processor as Performance Nvidia graphics processor.
Then if there is a link for Manage Display Mode (or Nvidia Optimus) you would click it and change the selected graphics option from Automatic to Dedicated graphics card.
Then in the Configure sound and PhysX settings you would select the dedicated graphics card from the drop-down selection.
After selecting this you should see an image of the type-C or Thunderbolt port underneath the image of the dedicated graphics card. If it is shown under integrated graphics, it means the manufacturer only built the computer type-C or Thunderbolt port to work via integrated graphics (likely to market it as a cheaper item).
If your hardware is high performance and you think the image should be displaying it in dedicated graphics.
You can enter into the BIOS and check the thunderbolt or Type-C display port settings and enable the mux switch feature and enabling the dedicated graphics card.
Then load into Windows, uninstall the Nvidia drivers and download and install the newest customized Nvidia drivers from the laptop manufacturer instead of Nvidia because laptop graphics card software might be customized for each laptop unlike dedicated graphics cards which are fine using the default Nvidia driver software from Nvidia directly. With the customized driver installed, check Nvidia Control Panel again and repeat the steps as described earlier and it may correctly display the type-C or Thunderbolt port in the dedicated graphics section.
With that enabled it means it "may" be possible to use the laptop with the PSVR2 adapter. It isn't guaranteed to be a stable configuration.