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KrisKros Dec 24, 2013 @ 4:11pm
Game choosing my Intel HD Graphics 4000.
The game chooses my integrated graphic card Intel HD Graphics 4000, instead of my dedicated Nvidia GeForce GT 640M 2gb one. My specs cover the recommended settings, but I have 30-40 framerate on the lowest resolution possible. I've been to the nvidia control center and made it choose the Nvidia graphic card, but I still can't choose it in the video settings...
asus aspire v3 571g 2gb dedicated graphics i5 8gb ram.

Any ideas? Thanks!
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UL7RA Dec 24, 2013 @ 4:16pm 
Common I'm afraid, do you have a choice of GPUs in the SW options menu?
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The Fish Puncher Dec 24, 2013 @ 4:18pm 
Open the NVIDIA GPU control panel, on program settings click add, add "Shadowwarrior /sw," or something like that, set the preferred processor to the nvidia GPU, click apply, launch it again.

Edit, wait ♥♥♥♥ you already did that.

Is the laptop set to "High Performance" in the power options?
Last edited by The Fish Puncher; Dec 24, 2013 @ 4:22pm
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KrisKros Dec 24, 2013 @ 4:37pm 
Originally posted by UL7RA:
Common I'm afraid, do you have a choice of GPUs in the SW options menu?

Yes, but I can only choose the Intel HD Graphics 4000.
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KrisKros Dec 24, 2013 @ 4:37pm 
Originally posted by The Fish Puncher:
Open the NVIDIA GPU control panel, on program settings click add, add "Shadowwarrior /sw," or something like that, set the preferred processor to the nvidia GPU, click apply, launch it again.

Edit, wait ♥♥♥♥ you already did that.

Is the laptop set to "High Performance" in the power options?

Yes, it's set to high performance, and while the nvidia control panel has fixed other games, this doesn't do the trick :/
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The Fish Puncher Dec 24, 2013 @ 5:11pm 
Try going to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Shadow Warrior\sw.exe"
and right click on sw.exe, go to "Run with Graphics Processor" and choose the Nvidia card.
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KrisKros Dec 25, 2013 @ 3:53am 
Originally posted by The Fish Puncher:
Try going to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Shadow Warrior\sw.exe"
and right click on sw.exe, go to "Run with Graphics Processor" and choose the Nvidia card.

Just did, still doesn't allow me to choose nvidia card ingame.
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mooner Dec 25, 2013 @ 4:24am 
Sorry if this sounds naive but why are people having this problem at all. I thought if you have a dedicated GPU card then you go into the Bios and disable internal graphics chip there. Voila! no??
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KrisKros Dec 25, 2013 @ 5:00am 
Originally posted by mooner:
Sorry if this sounds naive but why are people having this problem at all. I thought if you have a dedicated GPU card then you go into the Bios and disable internal graphics chip there. Voila! no??

How do i do it tho ?
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mooner Dec 25, 2013 @ 5:11am 
Ok as you probably don't have a Gigabyte motherboard like myself then things probably wont be the same as mine. However re-boot system and press the 'DEL' key whilst it's restarting and look for something along the lines of Internal Graphics in the Peripherals section. Disable that and then save bios and restart. Alternatively I would have thought you could disable the internal graphics chip in the Device Manager within Windows, disabling it there.
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The Fish Puncher Dec 25, 2013 @ 10:28am 
Originally posted by mooner:
Ok as you probably don't have a Gigabyte motherboard like myself then things probably wont be the same as mine. However re-boot system and press the 'DEL' key whilst it's restarting and look for something along the lines of Internal Graphics in the Peripherals section. Disable that and then save bios and restart. Alternatively I would have thought you could disable the internal graphics chip in the Device Manager within Windows, disabling it there.

He's on a laptop, you can't do that with Nvidia mobile cards.
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Mr Creep Dec 27, 2013 @ 11:02am 
resolve Mr MUFF?
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Hashmallum Dec 27, 2013 @ 5:22pm 
Right click on sw exe and select 'run with high performance graphics'.
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Mr Creep Dec 28, 2013 @ 5:08am 
Originally posted by Hashmallum:
Right click on sw exe and select 'run with high performance graphics'.
when i try to load a game with this command , it starts at 1280*720 , and remain disabled the combobox video card " intel hd 4000 "
but if i enable full screen mode i can to change resolution ,and combobox results enabled INTEL HD 4000.
how can i know which video board i'm using?
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The Fish Puncher Dec 28, 2013 @ 4:45pm 
I'm really not sure what is happening in both of your cases. All I had to do was make the game a profile in the nvidia control panel and designate the Nvidia card and it worked. Make sure your drivers are up to date.
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EddyDecapitated Jan 5, 2014 @ 7:28pm 
Originally posted by Hashmallum:
Right click on sw exe and select 'run with high performance graphics'.

This doesn't work for me, and neither does setting a profile for SW in the nVidia Control Panel. There have been so many people unable to run Shadow Warrior with their mobile graphics cards that you'd think you guys would actually consider coming up with a patch or a fix for it.

The problem is your game. Shadow Warrior is the problem - I have not had this issue with any other game release in the last couple years, and even some games that came out 5 years ago can identify my graphics card. So do early release titles. Why can't yours?

Please address this situation properly by issuing a patch for it.
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