How do i make Nvidia Graphics Card my main display

[Jord6200]

hi i have an Nvidia gtx 960m, and intel HD intergrated graphics. The two graphics clash so i cant play any games. so how do i turn off the intel graphics. What if i disable this in device manager, will this not just turn off all of my displays and no longer to be able to use laptop?

 

[Joshua Martin]

You don't need to disable it. Nvidia Optimus switches between the GPUs when the extra power is needed. You can however, go into Nvidia Control Panel and select 'change 3d settings' (I think). Click 'Global settings', and change the default to 'Use high-performance Nvidia processor'. That should make every game launch with the 960m. This is all from memory, but hopefully it helps.

 

[nigelivey]

Make sure you have the latest Intel drivers for your chipset and then the latest Nvidia drivers, it should take care of itself, you can as suggested above use Nvidia control panel to select the Nvidia card by linking it to the games .exe

 

[Jord6200]

Make sure you have the latest Intel drivers for your chipset and then the latest Nvidia drivers, it should take care of itself, you can as suggested above use Nvidia control panel to select the Nvidia card by linking it to the games .exe

hi i tried to run the games and they are still all running at really low fps, im pretty sure its not the 960m. how do i link the graphics card with the games?

 

[Jord6200]

its almost as though im capped at 30fps

 

[Jord6200]

You don't need to disable it. Nvidia Optimus switches between the GPUs when the extra power is needed. You can however, go into Nvidia Control Panel and select 'change 3d settings' (I think). Click 'Global settings', and change the default to 'Use high-performance Nvidia processor'. That should make every game launch with the 960m. This is all from memory, but hopefully it helps.

what would happen if i was to disable the intel graphics?

 

[toyftw]

hi i have an Nvidia gtx 960m, and intel HD intergrated graphics. The two graphics clash so i cant play any games. so how do i turn off the intel graphics. What if i disable this in device manager, will this not just turn off all of my displays and no longer to be able to use laptop?

Hi - The sys should auto detect when a discrete GPU is installed. Every once in a while tho (for some reason) it doesn't.
However, it's an easy fix if you haven't already. Go into BIOS, you should see something along the line of
Auto, Priority, disable, etc (depending on your mobo) for choices on your IGPU (Int graphics) and PCIE graphics.

Simply make the pcie graphics priority.