My laptop currently has installed two graphics cards:
- Nvidia GTX 675m
- Intel HD graphics 4000
Now obviously the former is much more powerful than the latter and is thus supposed to be used to run video games at comfortable frame rates.
However, the currently problem I'm having is that my laptop - against its own will - keeps on reverting to my onboard GPU, the intel card I have installed. This is a problem because it's a significantly less powerful card than my other one and whenever I play a game it runs really badly (i.e. struggling to churn out 30fps on san andreas; not a demanding game at all graphically). I've tried going into the Nvidia control panel and force my games to use the Nvidia card but still my laptop resists. It's a problem that I'd like to fix, but I don't know how?
So yes, before you say, "Apply the Nvidia card in the control panel" well, I've already done that and nothing has changed. I've updated drivers, rolled them back - the whole shabang. Still nothing.
Thanks in advance!
P.S. I would just disable the intel card but I am worried about the repercussions of those actions. Plus, the intel card is probably used to display all of the non intensive stuff right? Like my current display? Yeah I'm not techno expert so things will have to be explained to me in leyman terms.
- Nvidia GTX 675m
- Intel HD graphics 4000
Now obviously the former is much more powerful than the latter and is thus supposed to be used to run video games at comfortable frame rates.
However, the currently problem I'm having is that my laptop - against its own will - keeps on reverting to my onboard GPU, the intel card I have installed. This is a problem because it's a significantly less powerful card than my other one and whenever I play a game it runs really badly (i.e. struggling to churn out 30fps on san andreas; not a demanding game at all graphically). I've tried going into the Nvidia control panel and force my games to use the Nvidia card but still my laptop resists. It's a problem that I'd like to fix, but I don't know how?
So yes, before you say, "Apply the Nvidia card in the control panel" well, I've already done that and nothing has changed. I've updated drivers, rolled them back - the whole shabang. Still nothing.
Thanks in advance!
P.S. I would just disable the intel card but I am worried about the repercussions of those actions. Plus, the intel card is probably used to display all of the non intensive stuff right? Like my current display? Yeah I'm not techno expert so things will have to be explained to me in leyman terms.