Lenovo Ideapad U410 has Geforce 610M, but doesn't seem to be active under windows 10

[pragmobiler]

Hi, we have an Ideapad U410 with Windows 10. But no matter what I do, Windows only seems to use the built in Graphics 4000 card; not the Geforce 610M. How do I know this? for example when I start CCleaner, it reports the system specs as "Graphics 4000 card". When I run dxdiag.exe, it reports DirectX hardware as Graphics 4000. How can I be sure that the intel card is disabled and only the Geforce is used?

1) I tried Reinstalling the G610M drivers from Geforce.

2) Tried activating the card in the Geforce 3D dashboard panel

3) Tried Going into the Bios to disable the Graphics 4000 - impossible as this laptop doesn't seem to allow going into the bios, only into the Windows recovery dashboard

I'll be grateful for any help...! The Geforce 3D shows in device manager as active alongside the Graphics 4000, but it doesn't seem to work at all. Unless this is all obfuscated from the user and the Geforce card is being used in Windows when it sees fit...

thanks

 

[TehPenguin]

That's because 1368x768 is its native resolution. Your screen only has that many pixels.

 

[pragmobiler]

Yes, I mean an external display. I now figured out how to display more than 1368 on an external display, but I'm pretty sure its only using the Graphics 4000 and not the Geforce...thanks

 

[TehPenguin]

It's very much possible that your HDMI, or whatever port you have, is not connected to the GPU but to the iGPU. Try to find it out in your manual or contact the manufacturer. IDK how to get this info other than to tear your laptop apart.

 

[True Buie]

I've had this happen to me and friends around me, and the thing that works, is to get into "Nvidia controlpanel", navigate to "Set PhysX configuration", and choose your 610M as the preferred PhysX card.

 

[htmlish]

I've had this happen to me and friends around me, and the thing that works, is to get into "Nvidia controlpanel", navigate to "Set PhysX configuration", and choose your 610M as the preferred PhysX card.

Many thanks! we are trying this.