The game chooses wrong video adapter

[Klave The Brave]

Got the asus g750 laptop and it chooses the onboard video adapter instead of the gtx880m =S nice bug

[gg.nadrewod]

I have the exact same issue (except mine has the 860m onboard, so I assume that yours has a Solid State drive). Please, if you ever find a fix for this, let me know, and I'll try to remember to do the same.

[I am Groot]

Go into the game video options and choose adapter then change it to the one you want,if you cant get in game you need to disable the onboard graphics first.

[gg.nadrewod]

Originally posted by Madpaddy:

Go into the game video options and choose adapter then change it to the one you want,if you cant get in game you need to disable the onboard graphics first.

I have basically the same laptop as OP, so I feel that I can reply in his/her place: I have tried changing the selected card in-game already. It does nothing. As far as the game cares, the only card on my laptop is the onboard Intel card with a mere 256 MB of VRAM. I will try to disable the onboard graphics card outside of the game and see what happens when i start it up then.

[Noif1988]

This solved my problem on laptop yesterday:
Right click on the desktop > Nvidia Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > set preferred graphics to High-Performance Nvidia Processor
Or
Force via adding exe on Program settings tab next to global settings and set it to High-Performance Nvidia Processor

[RestedPandy]

Open up the nvidia control panel and go to "Manage 3d Settings", then "select a task". Under "global settings" (if you want it for all programs) or "program settings" (lets you specify particular programs/games) select "preferred graphic processor" and change it to "High Performance nVidia Processor". That will make the laptop use the Nvidia card in preference to the onboard. Some games don't show it as being default in the in-game game options\settings though, (had that recently with X-rebirth) but it will still be using it

[Klave The Brave]

yea that worked thanks for the help guys forgot all about that option =P

[johnlastadd]

I believe I'm having the same issue but with my desktop. I have an A10-5800k with a built in 7660D which I believe the game is defaulting to even though I have a HD7870.
Every time I start the game all I get is a black screen. I cannot alt-tab out of it. I cannot ctrl-alt-delete out of it. I'm forced to reboot my system. Any thoughts as to how I can trouble shoot this issue?

[I am Groot]

Disable the onboard graphics.

[Rabid Urko]

Originally posted by Madpaddy:

Disable the onboard graphics.

Yeah its because your on a laptop.

[ArmyTrident]

Originally posted by Urko:

Originally posted by Madpaddy:

Disable the onboard graphics.

Yeah its because your on a laptop.

Pretty sure johnlastadd said it was a desktop.

[gg.nadrewod]

Originally posted by johnlastadd:

I believe I'm having the same issue but with my desktop. I have an A10-5800k with a built in 7660D which I believe the game is defaulting to even though I have a HD7870.
Every time I start the game all I get is a black screen. I cannot alt-tab out of it. I cannot ctrl-alt-delete out of it. I'm forced to reboot my system. Any thoughts as to how I can trouble shoot this issue?

Whether you are on a desktop or a laptop, you always have a control panel for your graphics card. Go to your Radeon's/Sapphire's (not sure what it is called), and then go to wherever it stores the data on the games you play (every high-end card stores the settings you saved for every game you have played with it). At the top of the selection for Shadows of Mordor, you will find something that says which graphics card is preferred. Change that from Auto-Select to the Radeon.

If that doesn't fix it, let us know, because that would be an unsolved issue, and everyone hates finding a thread describing an issue they have where the answer is never posted.

[Xorbek]

So... Making the above mentioned change in my NVidia Control Panel isn't helping...
I'm running a Gigabyte laptop Q1742N with a NVidia GeForce 640m, but SoM is only picking up my Intel integrated piece of poop "card"

[Rei]

I hope this helps somebody but my game was working fine until I left for holidays then came back. Turns out somebody had unplugged + replugged all of the cables on my PC and my monitor was connected to the motherboard that's why the game kept complaining about no DX11.

[Fritzster]

Originally posted by RestedPandy:

Open up the nvidia control panel and go to "Manage 3d Settings", then "select a task". Under "global settings" (if you want it for all programs) or "program settings" (lets you specify particular programs/games) select "preferred graphic processor" and change it to "High Performance nVidia Processor". That will make the laptop use the Nvidia card in preference to the onboard. Some games don't show it as being default in the in-game game options\settings though, (had that recently with X-rebirth) but it will still be using it

Yay, forgotten knowledge torch passed.