Problem with Laptop NVIDIA Control Panel

[BleedingEdgeTek]

Alright, so I recently got a Sager NP8651 with a GTX 970m. I loaded up a game, and noticed the framerate was dreadful, so I quit. Looked at my MSI Afterburner, and noticed the GPU never had any usage at all.

I went into the NVIDIA control panel - Global Settings, and went to change the graphics to 'High Performance NVIDIA Graphics'. Hit 'Apply' and thought that was easy. Closed out, loaded up the same game and still awful framerate. Opened the NVIDIA control panel back up, and it had reset itself to 'Automatic Switching'

Did the same thing with the individual program settings, and the same thing happens. I've tried running the game through Right-Click, 'Run with High performance Graphics' option, and still uses the Intel HD Graphics.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I've already tried uninstall/re-install the graphics drivers - twice.

 

[ronintexas]

Using GeForce Game Ready Driver 344.75 WHQL, or newer, switching to MFAA can improve your Assassin's Creed Unity frame rates by 10-30% (21% on the system featured in this guide), noticeably improving performance and anti-aliasing quality.

To enable MFAA, open the NVIDIA Control Panel, navigate to 'Manage 3D Settings', change the 'Multi-Frame Sampled AA (MFAA)' option to “On”, and click 'Apply'. Next, in a supported game, simply set the MSAA graphics option to 2x or 4x, and our driver will take care of the rest.

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/assassins-creed-unity-graphics-and-performance-guide

This is from GeForce's website - there were several places I had to enable the GPU to utilize it playing games.

 

[BleedingEdgeTek]

Not to be rude, but that has nothing at all to do with what I'm talking about here.

 

[BleedingEdgeTek]

Just to clarify, I have yet to actually get the 970m to do anything. It has never showed any usage AT ALL.