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M18x R2 GTX 1080 graphics switching


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I have an aetina 1080 in M18x, so far it has been running as well as can be expected but, some games run on intergrated graphics most notably witch 3 and NFS16 while others like Crysis 3, Shadow of Mordor and benchmarks run just fine.

I have tried a few different driver versions, laptop power plan is set to high performance, in the nvidia control panel: setting the graphics processor to high performance, cuda cores processor to 1080 and switching power plan between max performance, optimal and adaptive makes no difference.

 

Only things I havent done is change the intel drivers or reinstall games/windows.

 

Has anyone else had this upgrading to a gpu that requires SG graphics and is there another way to force the dedicated gpu to run?

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depending on what OS version youre running, i know they changed the preferred GPU option to be set within the settings panel in the later versions (im running LTSC IoT 2021 which made it so the setting is within windows now instead of nvidia control panel, compared to the previous LTSC version). maybe this is the culprit?

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Go to your windows settings, search for graphics, there should be a option to choose which GPU to use per app. Add each app that does not use dGPU and select high performance gpu. 

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On 2/25/2022 at 9:26 PM, Azther said:

depending on what OS version youre running, i know they changed the preferred GPU option to be set within the settings panel in the later versions (im running LTSC IoT 2021 which made it so the setting is within windows now instead of nvidia control panel, compared to the previous LTSC version). maybe this is the culprit?

Yes this works I got the graphic switching part sorted now, pity that the nvidia control panel switching is now completely useless.

Witcher 3 starts on integrated graphics but still not dedicated, NFS16 refuses to start at all, thinking there is something else at play...  just odd that its happened since swapping in the 1080/using SG graphics.

I have no dxdiag errors, removed all mods, 1080 clocks do jump when both are launch and gpu-z sometimes detect power limit... will see what a fresh install of windows will do, I'll outa ideas.

 

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I am having a similar problem with UserBenchMark.exe from https://www.userbenchmark.com/.

When the gpu test comes up it uses integrated and I have set it in windows and Nvidia control panel. There must be a way to stop windows from taking control over Nvidia

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7 hours ago, aldarxt said:

I am having a similar problem with UserBenchMark.exe from https://www.userbenchmark.com/.

When the gpu test comes up it uses integrated and I have set it in windows and Nvidia control panel. There must be a way to stop windows from taking control over Nvidia

Using the windows settings worked for me.... is there a specific application that user bench uses for the gpu test that you could add to the windows gpi priority settings? 

 

Reinstalling the games that didnt work have solved my other crashing issues.

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On 3/7/2022 at 11:45 AM, kenny27 said:

Using the windows settings worked for me.... is there a specific application that user bench uses for the gpu test that you could add to the windows gpi priority settings? 

 

Reinstalling the games that didnt work have solved my other crashing issues.

I got it working by setting Preferred Graphics Processor to "High Performance Nvidia Processor" in 3D Settings, Nvidia Control Panel. That program runs through some tests in temp folder and can't set them in windows or Nvidia Control Panel. Just the main .exe can be set. I like running UserBenchMark because it is alot faster than 3DMark and I can change PC settings more quickly to adjust for performance. But your bringing this issue up helped me to figure it out. I didn't know about windows taking control of the GPU, M$FT fingers getting too Sticky!

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