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I recently received a new alienware 14 in the mail and was having some issues switching between integrated and discrete graphics. When I used the inbuilt benchmark tests in Just Cause 2 i pulled in a modest 15 FPS at low settings. I was wondering why the performance was so low but then I saw that the game was using the integrated intel graphics instead of the discrete nvidia card. I tried to hit fn + f5 but the message "your graphics solution is automatically configured for optimal performance." I have also changed the preferred graphics processor to the nivida one in the nvidia control panel. Is there a way to force the computer to use the nvidia processor instead of the integrated one?
Many thanks,
Nicholas
If it helps: COMPUTER: Alienware 14 | Intel Core i7 4700MQ 2.42 GHz turbo boost up to 3.6 | NVIDIA GeForce 750M with 1 GB GDDR5 | 8 GB RAM | 750 GB HDD 7200 RPM
NicholasS
Posted 2014-08-13T02:40:20.923
Reputation: 13
run OpenHardwareMonitor and look if the nVIDIA is used: http://openhardwaremonitor.org/
– magicandre1981 – 2014-08-13T07:48:19.120Here is the screenshot from OpenHardwareMonitor: – NicholasS – 2014-08-13T15:12:33.143
http://bayimg.com/eApPpaafm – NicholasS – 2014-08-13T15:14:30.343
from the picture you can see that the nVIDIA is in use. – magicandre1981 – 2014-08-14T04:28:27.040
So is it just that the nvidia processor does not work very well? because I am not quite getting the performance I was hoping for when i purchased the computer... – NicholasS – 2014-08-15T02:34:56.680
laptop chips of GPUs are much slower compared to the desktop PC cards. – magicandre1981 – 2014-08-15T04:11:22.290