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Laptop chooses Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 over NVIDIA Geforce GTX 960m?

nrodw — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 06:34:33 GMT

First of all here's the specs

Acer Aspire V Nitro Black Edition (VN7-592G)

Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-Bit
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700HQ 2.6 GHz
Screen: 15.6"
Memory: 8 GB DDR4
Graphics Card: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 960M/Intel(R) HD Graphics 530
Video Memory: 4 GB GDDR5

Apparently NVIDIA does this thing where to save on power it delegates less strenuous tasks to the Intel Graphics card. However the Intel card is awful. When I watch HTML5 video it glitches out occasionally and then crashes. (Yes my drivers are up to date)

Also natively my resolution runs in the Intel Graphics.. and I don't care for that. I'd rather the NVIDIA handle all of it but I don't see a setting where it will. I can apparently select which programs I want to run with which GPU but it doesn't seem to make a difference as it never changes from the Intel HD 530.

What I've done:

Updated all drivers from their websites.

Configured NVIDIA Control Panel to this:https://i.imgur.com/hPEj5dl.png https://i.imgur.com/hPEj5dl.png

Google searched the problem, I've found similar issues but no answers.

Checked BIOS for the ability to disable the Intel, with no success.

If you could help me how to change it to where my NVIDIA is the default display adapter I'd appreciate it!

http://asus-support.uk/ Asus Support Number

Re: Laptop chooses Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 over NVIDIA Geforce GTX 960m?

Stefan3D — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 17:13:16 GMT

Welcome to the club

Open NVIDIA control panel again, select program settings, scroll around until you find the browser you are using, force GeForce GPU again and save settings.

Repeat this procedure after every GeForce driver update.

Also review the article http://alteredqualia.com/texts/optimus/ How to run WebGL on discrete Nvidia GPU for notebooks with Nvidia Optimus and check your status with the http://alteredqualia.com/tmp/webgl-maxparams-test/ WebGL features detector

Re: Laptop chooses Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 over NVIDIA Geforce GTX 960m?

idata — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 18:47:37 GMT

Hello nancy123,

I understand you are trying to force the computer open the applications with the NVIDIA* video card.

Let me apologized for any inconvenience this issue may be causing to you.

In order to help you better I would like to get the Intel Graphics Driver Report. This link will show you how to generate it http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/graphics-drivers/000005848.html http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/graphics-drivers/000005848.html

Regards,

Fred

Re: Laptop chooses Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 over NVIDIA Geforce GTX 960m?

idata — Wed, 03 May 2017 20:24:35 GMT

Hello nancy123,

I was wondering if you still need assistance regarding hybrid graphics on your Acer* laptop. In case you still need assistance just let me know.

Regards,

Fred