# Plex server not respecting HardwareDevicePath option

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-server-not-respecting-hardwaredevicepath-option/846043>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-linux\
**Created:** [June 30, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-server-not-respecting-hardwaredevicepath-option/846043 "2023-06-30T22:09:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![CrazyWatermelon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/crazywatermelon/32/5449_2.png) [@CrazyWatermelon](https://forums.plex.tv/u/CrazyWatermelon)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-server-not-respecting-hardwaredevicepath-option/846043/1 "2023-06-30T22:09:24Z")

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Server Version#: 1.32.5.7210

I have an Intel NUC with both an iGPU and an Intel ARC A770M running Ubuntu and I was previously able to use the advanced HardwareDevicePath option to force Plex to use the dedicated GPU instead of the iGPU but it is no longer doing that. I’m checking GPU activity using Intel GPU top and I’m seeing Plex using the iGPU instead of the dGPU. I also tried changing “/dev/dri/renderD129” to “”/dev/dri/card1" (Thats what Intel GPU top reports as the device path) without success.

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**Author:** ![CrazyWatermelon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/crazywatermelon/32/5449_2.png) [@CrazyWatermelon](https://forums.plex.tv/u/CrazyWatermelon)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 10:38pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-server-not-respecting-hardwaredevicepath-option/846043/2 "2023-06-30T22:38:14Z")

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I just rolled back to 1.32.4.7195 and confirmed that version does respect the option.

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**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-server-not-respecting-hardwaredevicepath-option/846043/3 "2023-06-30T23:17:07Z")

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Now that we have the selector, it won’t use the old preference name  
Instead, select it (or choose ‘auto’)

 ![Screenshot from 2023-06-30 19-03-36](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/8/0/b/80b1cca59834b887761404a9f668c5c9c14ce664.png)

```auto
intel-gpu-top: Intel Raptorlake_s (Gen12) @ /dev/dri/card0 - 1210/1551 MHz; 0% RC6; 2103 irqs/s

         ENGINES BUSY MI_SEMA MI_WAIT
       Render/3D 87.06% |████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▍ | 0% 0%
         Blitter 0.00% | | 0% 0%
           Video 65.71% |██████████████████████████████████████████████████████▋ | 0% 0%
    VideoEnhance 0.00% | | 0% 0%

   PID NAME Render/3D Blitter Video VideoEnhance          

^C
chuck@plexqa-av1:~$ nvidia-smi
Fri Jun 30 19:16:41 2023       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 525.105.17 Driver Version: 525.105.17 CUDA Version: 12.0 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce ... On | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 0% 58C P2 85W / 170W | 699MiB / 12288MiB | 26% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 1232 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 56MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1386 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 5MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 29387 C ...diaserver/Plex Transcoder 632MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
chuck@plexqa-av1:~$ 

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**Author:** ![CrazyWatermelon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/crazywatermelon/32/5449_2.png) [@CrazyWatermelon](https://forums.plex.tv/u/CrazyWatermelon)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 11:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-server-not-respecting-hardwaredevicepath-option/846043/4 "2023-06-30T23:30:05Z")

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Thank you, I completed missed that in release notes! I can confirm its working correctly using that option in settings.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 11:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-server-not-respecting-hardwaredevicepath-option/846043/5 "2023-09-28T23:30:55Z")

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