Nvidia gpu not working with the game

[Aghern]

Hi, I hope this is not the wrong sessione where to ask help with hardwere.
I bought the game yesterday, and installed it today. When I run the game it doesn't trigger the nvidia gpu dedicated for gaming, but it runs on the base card, making the laptop explode :(
Do You have any suggestion? I alredy tried to set up the drivers via nvidia settings.
P.S. english is not my native lenguage and sorry if the discussion label is the wrong one.

[A Regular Italian Plumber]

You'll have an option somewhere in the Nvidia control manager (right click on the desktop and select the Nvidia Control Panel) or an option in your BIOS, to set your default GPU. Try both of those.

[Aghern]

All my games works fine with the dedicated GPU, I have alredy enabled those options way back. It's just pillars

[Wandering Gypsy]

Run dxdiag to verify the graphic card it is defaulted to. Click on the display tab.

Check the Name and Chip Type to see if it does indeed, match your Nvidia graphic card.

Otherwise, BIOS settings is where it would be forced to avoid using onboard gfx chips on your mobo and point to your Nvidia gaming card.

[probe]

Pretty common problem with some laptops (probably optimus trying to save battery). I haven't checked this video out yet but found it quickly. I hope it can help. Any chance the integrated card is a Intel HD4000 series card? I heard that several times with that specific card series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCh9Eob0mNY

Edit: From watching a few secs of the video it might not be the best one. Just search on youtube (something along the lines of "switch integrated card" or something).

Anyways: Good Luck. It might be an idea to change the power settings too. Make sure it doesn't try to save power/battery as that can default it back to the integrated card unless you did something like disabling it in BIOS.

[Aghern]

thank you very much, I will watch the video tomorrow

[Darkness]

All,

The issue I believe we're all facing is that the game is using the wrong video card (i.e. using the video card that's on the motherboard instead of our actual gaming video card). The solution is simple, tell Windows which video card to use. I used the instructions on this site and the game runs perfectly smooth: https://www.howtogeek.com/351522/how-to-choose-which-gpu-a-game-uses-on-windows-10/