Wong default graphic card (for nvidia owners)

[dach]

The game uses my integrated intel graphic card and not my nvidia card.

To force the nvidia card :
- nvidia configuration pannel
- 3D parameters
- software param
- add xrebirth.exe
- force nvidia processor

The fps is FAR FAR better now.

[Fived]

This made the game actually playable. Thanks a bunch!

[Chrono 199X]

I wonder if AMD users are experiencing the same bug.

[dach]

Postat inițial de Omnisandro:

I wonder if AMD users are experiencing the same bug.

It's easy to see wich graphic card is used : the information is displayed in the game's graphics settings.

[Henkie]

This is a Steam bug which is around for a year now.

[dach]

Postat inițial de JoxerNL:

I'm looking all over for this, but I have no "3D Parameters", I do have a 3D-Settings, when I add X-Rebirth there however i cannot find the video card to use setting, is this the "CUDA-GPU's" setting?
I got a 760GTX, so little confused trying to locate these things in my control panel since i think the OP has a complete different card or OS.

Yes, and a different langage... it doesn't help.

it's in french but maybe it can help :
http://imgur.com/KYHG3Zf

[ZombieHunter]

Why do you have both cards enabled at the same time? That can cause major problems with a lot of games. Disable the onboard in the BIOS. Onboard is junk. Has to go through the system bus to stream vertices and the like to the card. Junk. Definitely won't work with this game.

[Blackdragon]

Postat inițial de dach:

The game uses my integrated intel graphic card and not my nvidia card.

To force the nvidia card :
- nvidia configuration pannel
- 3D parameters
- software param
- add xrebirth.exe
- force nvidia processor

The fps is FAR FAR better now.

How is that even possible? Your video card is direcly connected to your monitor. Unless your second card is ALSO connected to your monitor (which I find hard to believe as that would be utterly pointless, esp. with an integrated chipset), the game can't "choose" to use the other card. Even if it did, you'd never get any picture from it on your monitor, as far as I understand things.

Maybe your fps increase was due to some other factor?

[ZombieHunter]

No its possible today. In the old days both cards would try to take interrupt 10h and the system would fail to boot. Nowadays cards and BIOS's are smarter and can be side by side (most anyways).

What will happen is that the driver will detect two devices and will give them ordinals. The game will go through code that enumerates the devices and will pick one. Since it has no idea which card is better it will likely pick ordinal 0 which would likely be the onboard card. This is why I always disable onboard cards so there is only 1 device. Now 1 device might have 2 heads (dual head) which means you can do true dual screen (not the fake dual extended Windows desktop ) but it is still one device in the list.

I cannot see how this is a Steam issue since the device selection and enumeration is performed by the game setup code.

[FuneralPyre]

Postat inițial de JoxerNL:

I'm looking all over for this, but I have no "3D Parameters", I do have a 3D-Settings, when I add X-Rebirth there however i cannot find the video card to use setting, is this the "CUDA-GPU's" setting?
I got a 760GTX, so little confused trying to locate these things in my control panel since i think the OP has a complete different card or OS.

I think it is the CUDA gpu. I chose the other option instead of the global settings and it seemed to work.

[MadMax665]

But how in heaven would this game boot up with an onboard graphics card? I'm pretty sure it would crash right to the desktop and not give us about 30 frames if it was indeed using the onboard card to run.

[ZombieHunter]

Your post brings up another possibility. For those that have NVidia cards we all love and hate PhysX. I wonder if that could bring the system down. Someone should try to disable it and see if it performs better or worse. Does Rebirth even use PhysX?

[Mombasa Raha]

so anyone have success witht he BIOS disabling of the intergrated card? i'm still struggling with this problem despite messing with the 3D parameters over and over again.

[ZombieHunter]

But how in heaven would this game boot up with an onboard graphics card? I'm pretty sure it would crash right to the desktop and not give us about 30 frames if it was indeed using the onboard card to run.

Quite likely but if there is enough VRAM and it supports the correct shader model the card will work. It will run like utter garbage but it will work. The onboard card would get extremely hot as well as its onboard chipset...prob not a good thing to do.

[Blackdragon]

Postat inițial de usnfalcon:

No its possible today. In the old days both cards would try to take interrupt 10h and the system would fail to boot. Nowadays cards and BIOS's are smarter and can be side by side (most anyways).

What will happen is that the driver will detect two devices and will give them ordinals. The game will go through code that enumerates the devices and will pick one. Since it has no idea which card is better it will likely pick ordinal 0 which would likely be the onboard card. This is why I always disable onboard cards so there is only 1 device. Now 1 device might have 2 heads (dual head) which means you can do true dual screen (not the fake dual extended Windows desktop ) but it is still one device in the list.

Maybe I'm a bit out of date here, but how is that PHYSICALLY possible if the monitor is connected by the video cable to only ONE card? Would the motherboard actually "stream" the video from the integrated chipset through the dedicated card's PCI slot and circuitry into the VGA/HDMI output socket? If so, that would be one hell of a mess IMO.

Anyway, I've got some integrated video on my Nvidia motherboard, but this issue sure as hell never came up for me. All I ever saw was output from my dedicated videocards.

[almightyzentaco]

Postat inițial de JoxerNL:

I'm looking all over for this, but I have no "3D Parameters", I do have a 3D-Settings, when I add X-Rebirth there however i cannot find the video card to use setting, is this the "CUDA-GPU's" setting?
I got a 760GTX, so little confused trying to locate these things in my control panel since i think the OP has a complete different card or OS.

Same. I can't find what they are talking about in my Nvidia Control Panel.