Blacklight: Retribution defaulting to Integrated Card

[jacobku]

Hello, I have 2 graphics cards in my laptop. I have an integrated Intel card and a dedicated ATI card. I pretty much keep it on the dedicated card at all times, unless I'm watching a tv show in bed or something that doesn't require much power and I don't want it to get too hot. Anyway, I recently downloaded Blacklight: Retribution. I noticed I was only getting 20 fps even though "CanYouRunIt" said I exceeded the recommended specs (and I heard from friends it doesn't take too much to run.) I can run Skyrim on medium-high settings and get at least 40-50 fps at all times as well. I can also see in game it says something about my intel card (I checked again and it wasn't there, but either way I know it's using my integrated card). How can I make it so the game runs on my dedicated card?
Any and all help appreciated!

Edit: Oh and there's no option in game to change it, by the way.

 

[Nuckles_56]

You should be able to set the default graphics card by right clicking on the short cut and going to run with graphics processor and there should be an option there to change what the default graphics processor is

 

[jacobku]

Hmm I'm not seeing that... when I right click, this is what I get:

in properties:

in advanced...:

Maybe it's just an Nvidia thing? :/
(doesn't work when I right click on the .exe either)

 

[Nuckles_56]

It could also be a win 8.1 thing as well I am not sure, but I do have a nvidia graphics card which is in a laptop so I am not sure

 

[jacobku]

Yeah, I have Win7 Home

 

[Nuckles_56]

I would suggest downloading catalyst control centre and trying to change what GPU is being used through there

 

[jacobku]

I have CCC but it's no help. I also have a "switchable graphics" option when I right click my desktop, and it's set to high performance. Every other game I go on uses my ATI card as well.