Forcing Dedicated Graphics Card Use

[ThaneMartin4]

I have a Lenovo P580 and it has the onboard Intel 4000 graphics and aN NVIDIA GT 630M. It uses the NVIDIA card for most games except Counter Strike Global Offensive and a few others. How can I force it to use the NVIDIA card? And Yes I have tried going into the control panel and setting my preferred GPU to the NVIDIA card.

 

[meat_loaf]

Control panel don't always work because windows control panel will just automatically go back to the on-board adpater. Have you tried booting into your bios and set nvidia to primary adapter?

First go to your bios (hit del repeatedly while laptop boots up). Then browse around to find something like primary adapter. If you still experience the problem after doing that uninstall the nvidia drivers and then download something called CC cleaner. Run the CC cleaner to clean both registry and and regular cleaning to get rid of any junk files and registries that stil has memory on your previous drivers. And then reinstall nvidia.

Do the steps above first to get fresh install to eliminate any potential of bad or corrupted system folders.

Another alternative is right click on your desktop and go to screen resolution --> and in the menu there should be settings you can set to primary display and so forth.

Sometimes it is just the drivers that go corrupt. If you do everything and nothing works then Windows is your culprit. Often enough Windows will do random crappy things itself. It happened to me several times that after reformat everything goes back to normal.