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New Laptop's GTX 940mx isn't being used properly.
I got a laptop recently, and it's been chugging along just fine until I realized that it may be running off of integrated graphics instead. I'm not sure where the specs are displayed, after I put them all up on my profile, but the laptop's got a GTX 940mx GPU, and also Intel HD Graphics 520, and so far, I've been seeing some strange symptoms that would suggest the Integrated Graphics are the only ones getting any use.
So far I've tried:
- Forcing the preferred GPU to "High-performance NVIDIA processor" in the NVIDIA control panel. Doesn't seem to have changed anything, however.
- Running the GPUs through GPU-Z (I haven't used it that much before). The strange part was that neither cards seemed to be getting any load at all, even while I was running Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes (a game that is supposed to be able to do 60fps on medium settings) in the background. The other strange part is that under the "PerfCap" section of GPU-Z, the 940mx seemed to be capped, giving me the message "Limited by GPU Utilization".
- Manually disabling the Integrated Graphics. I figure, if there's no Integrated Graphics, then the laptop either won't be able to boot, or it'll absolutely be forced to use the 940mx? Well it might have been forced to use the 940mx, because when I tried running MGS:GZ after that, it ran at about 0.1 frames. A minute. The thing is that it was completely consistent. Nothing changed the framerate after that. It didn't get faster or slower, which fits in with what GPU-Z was telling me. That the 940mx is being capped, for some reason. I think it just isn't allowed to run any faster than that.
- But, here's the REAL weird part. I tried checking out the NVIDIA control panel while the Integrated Graphics were disabled, and I was greeted with "NVIDIA Settings are not available. You are not currently using a display attached to an NVIDIA GPU." I would have thought this would be the complete opposite way around, but no. Apparently the display isn't hooked up to an NVIDIA GPU, which I suppose makes sense, if the laptop was manufactured with the display connected straight to the motherboard and not the GPU.
- I also tried messing with drivers for a little bit, but GeForce Experience keeps kicking me out with a really informative error message of "Something went wrong." I tried updating the drivers manually, without using GeForce Experience, but I don't remember what happened after that (I tried that solution a while ago). Either way, it didn't seem to do anything.
And that concludes this big mess of GPUs, I guess. I'm not sure what's happening, now.