Sometimes there is a need to run this or that application, the game with the video card NVIDIA or Intel in manual modeBut not all users know how to choose a video chip. Today we will tell you how to switch the video card on a laptop with NVIDIA on Intel and vice versa so that you can choose the desired video chip.
Why do you need manual switching if it is carried out automatically?
The fact is that then you will get the opportunity to save the battery. For example, you run any game with sufficiently low requirements for the video card. By default, you immediately activate the Chip from Nvidia, which will undoubtedly affect the faster battery discharge. That is, the first bonus, which we get - the ability to save the battery when launching undemanding toys.The other version of the development of events is not excluded when the launch of the application is initially carried out with the "wrong" video chip, which is why it is not possible to achieve maximum performance in it. Perhaps the problem is enclosed in the application itself, which is why the system incorrectly chose a video card. However, we can solve it in a few clicks with mouse.
We switch standard tools
On new game laptopseven if there is intel processor, Initially, it is impossible to switch the video chips - the second is simply absent. Therefore, nothing will come here. As for older devices, you must perform the following to switch:As you can see, nothing simpler and can not be - you need to make literally a few clicks with the mouse to activate the corresponding item in the context windows menu.
What if the method above does not work?
Fortunately, he is far from the only one. We will again have to return to NVIDIA software. You must do the following:
There is also a way to select a separate video chip to start each application, this is as follows:
In conclusion, I would like to say that in new laptops, switching from a discrete to the built-in video card is automatic and does not require additional settings.
Many models of modern laptop computers have two graphic video adapter: integrated and discrete. The system itself decides which one to use for a specific task. There are several options, how to set up a video card on a laptop so that a weaker chip is mistakenly turned on in games.
How to switch between video cards on a laptop
Those who do not know what a video adapter in a laptop must be remembered that this moment Use two types of this system element. The first is built into the processor, the adapter does not boast of high performance, but consumes little energy. PC models with such a combined option are usually cheaper. There are models of such processors from both world manufacturers: Intel and AMD.
The second type of video adapter is discrete or separate. These cards are well suited for games, video processing, but cost more, have a higher power consumption and warm more. Optionally, only one type of graphic chip should be in the system. Many portable computers They have both types of adapters at the same time. Default operating system Itself makes the choice of which one to run in this particular task. Sometimes it is mistaken and you need to configure from the user.
If the video adapter of one generation and from one company, you can specify the parameters in which they will work simultaneously, increasing the performance of the computer. However, game developers recommend choosing one basic option. This can be done with:
- task Manager;
- in bios;
- special programs.
How to switch the video card in bios
This option is always working on stationary machines, but not always present in laptops. Some models do not support it, so you just need to check. Below is the instruction, how to turn on the video card on the laptop and make it the main one:
- Run or restart the PC.
- During the first screensaver, press DEL or F2 (for different versions).
- When you get into the BIOS, the control will be carried out using the arrow on the keyboard.
- To change the priority of the card, find the item called "Advanced" or "Config".
- Here you need a partition that would include the word "Graphics". Names in models from ASUS, Lenovo or HP may differ, but this word is always present.
- You need to either disable the second chipset by setting the value of disabled, or move the main adapter to the first line.
- Save the changes and exit BIOS.
How to change the video card on a laptop through device manager
The second option, how to switch the video card on a laptop - use windows tool "Device Manager". This menu contains all system elements that are installed on a laptop. Here you can not change the configuration, but you can turn off some of the devices. To go to the panel, follow these steps:
- Right-click on the My Computer icon.
- Select "Management".
- In the left menu, locate the "Device Manager" line.
- Expand the "Video adapter" item. It contains those chipsets that are installed in the system.
- Click on the built-in adapter by right-click, select "Disable".
Such manipulation turns off the extra chip and only one main will remain. This is a temporary measure, because after rebooting the computer, the device will resume. To switch forever the launch priority, you should use the specialized software that goes along with adapters AMD Radeon., NVIDIA GeForce.. This way to change the priority is much more reliable and easier.
Switching laptop video cards Special programs
Two main programs for managing video cards are available only with a discrete type of adapter. Products from AMD this Catalyst Control Center., and NVIDIA - NVIDIA Control Center. These applications make it possible to more subtly control devices, set priority for them, enable or disable joint work, Set the automatic shift of the chip depending on the running game or program.
How to choose a basic video card on a laptop in NVIDIA
Together with the adapter in complete is coming disk with special software For the goods. It stores drivers, some specialized applications for tuning the frequency of the chip, fan speed and the program for common management Graphic parameters of the system. NVIDIA has this feature executes the Control Center section. Inside this application, you can set special settings. Instructions, how to switch the video card on a laptop:
- Click in the system tray to the Nvidia company icon (the right bottom corner of the screen) and click on "Open Control Panel".
- Click on the item from the left menu "3D Parameters".
- On the right, select the "Software Settings" tab.
- The system will find all possible applications for which you can specify a preferred graphic adapter.
- Find the game or a program that is launched not with the chip from the drop-down list.
- Under it is a section through which the necessary video card is specified.
- If you find through the list the desired file. Failed, you can make it manually through the Add button.
How to switch to a discrete video card in a laptop in Catalyst
Change the preferred adapter through By from Radeon. It also goes along with the card, if you lost the disk, then the latest version should be downloaded for free from the manufacturer's website. Remember that you can configure the mode at which both maps will work simultaneously. Instructions, how to switch AMD video card on a laptop:
- Run the Catalyst utility.
- You need a menu item from the "Power" section called "Switchable graphics adapters".
- Click on the "GPU High Performance" button. If your PC is connected to the network, it will always work discrete Card. If you need to switch to the integrated, select the "Low Consumption GPU" inscription.
Video: How to switch to another video card on a laptop
User's question
Hello.
I have two video cards on a laptop: Built-in Intel HD and discrete NVIDIA. For some reason, many games are braked (and, some of them are old), I suspect that they work on the built-in video card.
How can I find out on which card they work, and if not on a discrete, how to use it? Thank you in advance...
Good day!
In fact, many modern laptops are equipped with two video cards: one built-in (usually Intel HD) - used when working in Windows, view pictures, video, not too resource-intensive games; The second is a discrete AMD or NVIDIA required to run games and programs that require high performance from the video adapter.
In theory of developers, the discrete video card must be activated automatically when the game starts (The rest of the time to save the battery power, the built-in video card should operate) . But it does not always happen, and part of the games starts on the built-in - as a result, you see the brakes, lags, delays, etc. In this article, I will give several ways to run games on a discrete video card.
Note: In your manual below, I will show you a discrete video card setting on the NVIDIA example. If you have a video card from AMD, the menu will be somewhat excellent, but the configuration principle does not change (see screenshots in the comments).
Important!
Before switching to methods and fine configuration, you must have topical video drivers. (at least not those that are set by default with Windows). I recommend to use one of the driver managers for automatic update and installing new "wood" (reference below).
Driver Update in Windows 10 - Overview 5 best programs (in Russian) -
How to update the driver on the AMD, Nvidia and Intel HD video card: from A to Z -
Method number 1: Using the video driver settings menu
If you are installed drivers, pressing the right mouse button anywhere in the desktop, in the pop-up context menu, you must see the link to their setting (in my case, this is a link to "NVIDIA control panel" ) . Go to the configuration of the discrete video card drivers.
After that, you can try to start the game - it should start on the discrete video card.
By the way, in the settings of NVIDIA, you can also specify a specifically used video card for a particular game. To do this, do the following:
- open video card settings, then tab "3D Parameters Management" ;
- next, open the tab "Software Settings" ;
- add the necessary program (in my case added the game Civilization 4.);
- and set a preferred graphics processor for this application (see screen below);
- save settings!
Method number 2: through the conductor
If in the NVIDIA settings set certain settingsYou can run any games and programs on the adapter you need in manual mode.
For this discover nVIDIA settingsthen in the section "Desktop "(Top menu) Put a couple of ticks:
- Add to the contexts and menu of the desktop;
- Add item "Run S. graphics processor" In the context menu.
If you have turned on the previous pair of ticks, then the most obvious and easy way to run the game on the desired video adapter is to open the conductor, you mean the desired folder in which the executable file is lying with the game, and click on the game file right-click (by the way, you can do it And on the icon on the desktop).
Actually, the game should start on your chosen adapter. Now I will consider the way how to check it if it is ...
How to check whether the game works on a discrete video card
First go to the settings video card NVIDIA and open the menu "Desktop" . In this menu you need to enable one parameter "Display GP activity icon in the notification area" . This icon will allow to see when the NVIDIA adapter is loaded, actually, what we and we are looking for ...
By the way, note that after enabling this option, you have in the tray, next to the clock, the corresponding icon will appear (see Screenshot below).
Now launch the game. If the game goes in full screen mode, roll it with the buttons WIN. or Alt + Tab..
Please note that the NVIDIA GP icon has become colored (on the screen below). Those. The NVIDIA adapter began to work after the launch of your game - it means it is involved!
The icon became color after starting the game (bottom)
Also clicking on this icon, you can see which games (applications) now use this adapter (see screen below).
In general, this most relevant and reliable method of determining is whether the discrete video card is involved.
Using FPS analysis
It is also indirectly to determine whether your discrete video card is involved in quantity (the number of frames in the game). The discrete video card is usually higher.
To see the amount of FPS in games, set one of several applications: FRAPS, PLAYCLAW, OVERWOLF. Then run intentionally some game on the built-in and discrete video cards, and you will see the difference (see screen below)!
If necessary, add graphs to maximum settings to use resources completely (for a more obvious difference).
One more thing!
Pay attention to the noise and temperature of your laptop. If a discrete video card is involved, many laptop models begin to make noise noticeably above. The video adapter temperature also begins to grow (it can, for example, speccy, screen below) begins.
Why the game may not start on the discrete video card
Some games stubbornly do not want to run on a discrete video card. In the driver settings, you specify everything, in manual you specify how to run, and anyway - the game goes on the built-in, lags and slows down. In this case, I recommend a few things (came across himself, repeatedly)!
1. Try another OS, for example, Windows 7
History is simple. On one laptop, he could not understand for a long time why one old game was hardly launched on a discrete video card (on it, by the way, Windows 10 was installed). Then I decided to create another partition on the hard disk and install the second OS - Windows 7. Surprisingly, but in Windows 7, the game started without problems on a discrete video card.
Conclusion: Windows 10 incorrectly works with two video cards (built-in and discrete) and old games. It is also possible that the fault of that and drivers, which are still not optimized for the "new" windows 10.
2. Try enable compatibility mode and disable scaling
To do this, simply open the properties of the desired EXE file. Next, in the "Compatibility" section, check the "Run a program in compatibility mode with such that Windows" (Example below).
3. Try to install more old version Drivers (on the video card)
And, last. Not always the most new driver is the best. It is possible that there is some error in the new driver, and the discrete card is not activated when the game is started. Therefore, you should try the more old version of the driver, which has already been worked out by long months (years).
To help!
Restoring the old working driver: rollback to previous version -
I have everything on this, I hope for the initial question answered deployed.
Updated way
Starting method (not always working)
Currently, such a solution is: There are two video screen in the laptop - most often the Intel HD Graphics graphics core and a discrete chip from NVIDIA, whose switching mode can be selected in the panel control NVIDIA.
Stable method:
1. In the NVIDIA control panel, go to the Software Settings tab:
2. Click the Add button and specify the executable game file that will be forced to start with a discrete video.
Private case - only for games using the Java machine (Minecraft and others). You must add a not executable game file to the list, but the Java machine itself. To do this, first need to find where the javaw.exe file is started. For example, you can start the task manager, go to the Process tab, bring the cursor to the process of interest to us, touch the right mouse button and select Properties. The window that opens will be indicated path. My javaw.exe lies in the folder C: WindowsSysysWow64 (Windows 7 Maximum 64 Bit, Java 7Se 32 Bit). After the location of the file is known, add it as it was written above.
3. Select a high-performance NVIDIA processor from the drop-down list.
4. Click the Apply button.
Alternative method (operational)
If a regular method did not help, there is another one - not very obvious, but quite workable.ATTENTION:
This method Tested on Windows 7.
This method does not work on Windows 10.
1. Open the screen resolution:
2. Click the Find button. Two more monitors will appear with inscriptions. Another screen is not found:
3. Select the monitor corresponding to the discrete video screen:
4. Select several screens from the drop-down list. Tune in any case connect to VGA, click the Apply button:
The result will be the following:
5. Select to expand these screens, click apply, confirm the save parameters:
Note
If you have not activated a video card after incorporation alternative wayMake the following.
With an alternative way to perform additionally regular And rejoice at the game.
The result of an alternative way
We observe the result.
Games now see both video cards.
TES settings window: Skyrim:
The video card monitoring gadget from 0rbmU2K now normally defines the total amount of memory, the volume of occupied memory and the GPU load in percent:
Is it worth saying that games are now going faster?
By the way, I played many games by adding Exnect to the NVIDIA panel in the first way. Graphics settings for a comfortable game had to put on the minimum. Now FPS rose in many games by 20-40%. In some games of the special increase in the frames did not see the lags and friezes disappeared.
