Advice re my graphics card

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Bobby

Member
Hi guys & gals,

So my new Optimus V arrived yesterday and I spend most of my evening exploring it (a fine piece of equipment). I'm some what of a newbie when it came to what I should include so I took most your your advice on the forum & also PCS in building it. I plan on posting a 'first impression from a beginner' soon which I'm sure you'll all have a good laugh at.

My question is this (and probably reflects a beginner gamer), when I am playing a game, how do I know my graphics card is in use? I've read a lot on my machine about integrated graphics but I want to obviously make sure I utilise everything I paid for. For that matter, when can I find out more about the graphics on my machine? Probably a very, very simple question for most of you but I'm sure there are similar users out there who struggle where to find where things are. There is a Nvidia icon on my desktop which I have yet to load, but in terms of the card...is it in constant use or does my machine flick between the two?

Thanks for the help in advance.

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Genome

Bronze Level Poster
if you right click on the desktop there is an option for "NVIDIA Control Panel". In there you can see what programs are set to use what GPU. In theory it should know what is a game and set it to the GPU but this is always true in practice. You can just change it in there though.

Anyway its normally pretty clear if its using it or not because for any kind of modern game you will have pretty poor frame rates on anything but the low settings. If you have the GTX765m which I am assuming you do then that should run everything pretty damn well. Mine runs Battlefield 4 at high settings at 900p at 40-60 fps. If it was using the IntelHD 4600 integrated GPU would basically not run, and if it did it would only be at low settings and a lower resolution.

notebookcheck.net is good for finding out about Graphics card performance in laptops. So here is the page for the GTX765m

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-765M.92907.0.html
 
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Bobby

Member
No none at all, runs very quick and the detail is super. Give away that's my graphics card working its magic? To be honest compared to what I was using, a gameboy would probably seem fast!
 
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Genome

Bronze Level Poster
haha. if its the same as mine its a decent spec laptop. There are better of course but the cost goes up exponentially.

I wouldn't worry to much about it. Read that link I posted and look at the NVIDIA Control Panel to learn a bit more about what you can do with the card but apart from that dont worry about it.

Oh and if you dont already, get a cool pad for your laptop. They really do work wonders for keeping the thing cool.
 
ubuysa

ubuysa

The BSOD Doctor
Bobby said:
Hi guys & gals,

So my new Optimus V arrived yesterday and I spend most of my evening exploring it (a fine piece of equipment). I'm some what of a newbie when it came to what I should include so I took most your your advice on the forum & also PCS in building it. I plan on posting a 'first impression from a beginner' soon which I'm sure you'll all have a good laugh at.

My question is this (and probably reflects a beginner gamer), when I am playing a game, how do I know my graphics card is in use? I've read a lot on my machine about integrated graphics but I want to obviously make sure I utilise everything I paid for. For that matter, when can I find out more about the graphics on my machine? Probably a very, very simple question for most of you but I'm sure there are similar users out there who struggle where to find where things are. There is a Nvidia icon on my desktop which I have yet to load, but in terms of the card...is it in constant use or does my machine flick between the two?

Thanks for the help in advance.

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Have you seen this sticky thread? https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/foru...st-games-and-how-to-enable-Nvidia-GPU-monitor
 
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