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New work station graphics card idle while onboard doing all the work
Yesterday, at work, they gave me a new Lenovo ThinkStation. It seems like a pretty nice setup with Intel I-7 processor, 16 gb ram memory, an NVIDIA Quadro P620 graphics card, dual Viewsonic monitors and, of course, Windows 10.
The NVIDIA graphics card is visible in Device Manager, which says it is working properly, and is shown when I open the Task Manager Performance tab. However, it constantly shows 0% utilization. Even when I Google Graphics Test and run some "Graphics Intensive" video it just sits there at idle, at 0%, while the Intel onboard graphics does all the work. Is this normal?
I have checked its usage settings in NVIDIA Control Panel. There are only two choices, forgive me as I don't remember their exact wording, "Graphics Applications" or "Graphics and Computing Needs", it is set on the latter setting.
Any insight on this would be appreciated. I hate to think that I have a decent video card and I am not using it, especially on a brand new machine.