Game not Detecting Discrete Gfx card

[TheRealestPepito]

Hi there. Ive been having this problem with milestone games. When I launch the game in the video settings I can only selet my Integrated Intel HD4000 card. It doesnt detect my Nvidia GTX660M and this is causing performance problems in-game. Anyone encountered this problem before? Btw only milestone games give me that problem.

Laptop: Lenovo Y580 Intel Core-i7 3630QM 2.4ghz, 8.0GB 1600mhz, 256GB Samsug SSD

[✪ILlIcIT]

try out the beta drivers http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

[TheRealestPepito]

Thanks I tried that, tried uninstalling ,cleaning up, re-installing both game and gfx driver it still doesnt give me the choice of selecting my Nvidia card in the settings

[↯lightningboy↯]

try searching your motherboards' BIOS. There may be an option to select a primary graphics processor between the integrated intel and the nvidia card.

[ThE HiLL|DK ♿]

Have you try to disable the onborad GFX card ?

And are you sure youre card is supported ?

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Link: http://motogpvideogame.com/press/MotoGP13-WindowsPCRequirements.pdf

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Operating System: Windows®XP™ SP2, Windows®Vista™ or Windows®7
Processor: Intel™ 2.4Ghz or similar
Hard disk space: 5,5 GB
RAM: 1GB
Video Card: NVIDIA® Geforce 8800 GT or, AMD® Radeon™ HD 3870 or higher (it must be able to manage Pixel Shader 3.0) with at least 512MB of display memory

RECOMMENDED REQUIREMENTS:
Processor: Intel™ Core 2 Duo / AMD™ Athlon 64 X2 or higher
RAM: 2 GB on Windows®XP™, 3 GB on Windows®Vista™ and 4 GB on Windows®7
Screen: 19” LCD Wide Screen or bigger.
Video card: NVIDIA® GeForce™ series 9000 or higher, AMD® Radeon™ HD4000 series or higher (it must be able to manage Pixel Shader 3.0) with at least 1GB of display memory.

Laptop versions of these cards are not fully supported
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[Mandelbrot1975]

I don't have an Optimus box anymore (combo NVIDIA and Intel GFX) however in the video control panel, you can select a primary card on a per application basis. There's quite a few games that require this.

Nvidia Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings > Select a program to customize

Once you choose an executable, then you select your 660 card as the preferred card. That should "hide" the Intel card from the game.

To the others, you cannot disable the integrated Intel card in the BIOS. Technically you can but then you lose your display. It's a passthrough for the NVidia card. If you disable it, the NVIDIA card cannot pass anything to/from the video buffer.

[TheRealestPepito]

Hi Guys thanks for the help but nothing worked.

1. Updated to new Nvidia Driver, cleaning up prev. drivers first
2. Bios up to date and doesnt allow only Nvidia card to be used, its either Intel or both
3. Tried setting up the exe. to open the game using the Nvidia card from the Nvidia Control Panel
4. Run the game as admin
5. Tried Disabling the Intel card, now game only sees 'Microsoft Basic Render Driver'
6. Tried E-mailing support. Havent heard from them yet.

Unfortunately this only occurs with Milestone games (WRC 3, SBK 2011, MotoGP 13). All my other games run perfectly.

My specs: Lenovo Y580, Intel Core-i7 3630QM 2.4ghz, 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz, Nvidia Geforce GTX 660M 2GB DDR5, Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB, Windows 8 Pro 64-Bit

[Red Feather]

Originally posted by AuroraMike:

I don't have an Optimus box anymore (combo NVIDIA and Intel GFX) however in the video control panel, you can select a primary card on a per application basis. There's quite a few games that require this.

Nvidia Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings > Select a program to customize

Once you choose an executable, then you select your 660 card as the preferred card. That should "hide" the Intel card from the game.

To the others, you cannot disable the integrated Intel card in the BIOS. Technically you can but then you lose your display. It's a passthrough for the NVidia card. If you disable it, the NVIDIA card cannot pass anything to/from the video buffer.

that did it for me. it must've changed the default setting when i updated the driver. good to know how to fix this specific problem for future mishaps. thanks a lot kind sir :-)