# Force the use of eGPU

**URL:** <https://forums.eveonline.com/t/force-the-use-of-egpu/198970>\
**Category:** Mac Issues\
**Created:** [November 2, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/force-the-use-of-egpu/198970 "2019-11-02T21:08:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rheith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/rheith/32/167478_2.png) [@Rheith](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Rheith)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/force-the-use-of-egpu/198970/1 "2019-11-02T21:08:19Z")

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Is there a way to force the game to use an eGPU on Mac?

thanks

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**Author:** ![Amarisen\_Gream](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/amarisen_gream/32/296747_2.png) [@Amarisen\_Gream](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Amarisen_Gream)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 4:06am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/force-the-use-of-egpu/198970/2 "2019-11-04T04:06:40Z")

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One of two ways that I know of

1: Have your monitor connected to the egpu. I have a 2018 Mac mini with an egpu with a Radeon 580. Monitor is connected direct to egpu - eve shows the card as the graphics card.

2: if you can find the wine app - do a show info on it and tell it to prefer the egpu.  
Option 1 is much easier from my experience as there isn’t really an app to do the show info on.

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**Author:** ![Rheith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/rheith/32/167478_2.png) [@Rheith](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Rheith)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 4:27am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/force-the-use-of-egpu/198970/3 "2019-11-04T04:27:34Z")

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Thanks, I have a 580 egpu as well. I found Wine but no option to prefer the egpu the I can find so far.

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**Author:** ![Amarisen\_Gream](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/amarisen_gream/32/296747_2.png) [@Amarisen\_Gream](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Amarisen_Gream)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/force-the-use-of-egpu/198970/4 "2019-11-05T00:59:20Z")

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Then your best bet is just just make sure your monitor is connected to the egpu. I can’t remember the hot key for the frame rate in eve (control+f?) but it will tell you what graphic card it is using.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/force-the-use-of-egpu/198970/5 "2020-02-03T00:59:36Z")

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