Using Integrated Graphics instead of Geforce GPU

[fbryan]

My game is not functioning presently and I think it's because it's somehow gotten stuck on using the integrated graphics instead of the Geforce card...the game loads but plays at 0 FPS. (this all started when I hooked my laptop up to my HDTV). I've watched MSI afterburner and when I play other games you can see the usage in the graphs but the GPU neither heats up nor registers anything when I load the witcher.

I've dug through the config files looking for something. Anyone have any ideas?

[Snaibla]

i don't think u can play it with integrated g. read the requirements :)

[fbryan]

no thats what I mean...The game is trying to use the integrated graphics I think instead of the GPU. because the load doesn't pick up on the GPU when I start the game. So Trying to figure out how to get it back on the GPU.

[[KOTN] Baby-Eating Dingo]

I'm having the same problem. I can't play the game because my laptop insists on using the integrated graphics instead of the GTX 870M. I have tried setting it to use the Nvidia card in the control panel, but no go. Have you figured anything out?

[neuroxia]

On laptops with secondary dedicated AMD video card you can force use either card from catalyst; I'm sure there must be a way to also do this on geforce gpu

Edit: just copied this after a sort google search;
"If you open your nvidia control panel
Select manage 3d settings
Global Settings tab
switch the drop down from Auto to nvidia
Reboot your computer"

[[KOTN] Baby-Eating Dingo]

That's what I mean.

"I have tried setting it to use the Nvidia card in the control panel, but no go. Have you figured anything out?"

For some reason Witcher 3 cannot be forced to use the Nvidia GPU. Probably the terrible drivers that just got released...

[neuroxia]

My bad, i'm at work atm and must have got over those lines;
Is there no way to disable your integrated graphics card and run solely on geforce?

[tiger305]

shut the pc off
plug the cable into the NVidia card
start pc
go into the bios and dis-able the onboard gpu...

save and it should be using the NVidia gpu.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Or, find Witcher 3 executable.
Right-click it.
"Run with graphics processor".... pick the high-performance version.


Granted, you'd have to do that each time. But if for some reason the control panel isn't working for you, and you don't have a BIOS or physical switch to force, there you go.

[KEVIN (Skrrt scoot)]

I'm having the same issue. Forcing it to use the correct graphics card doesn't seem to work.

As Sentinel_Toaster stated, right clicking the .exe itself and running on high performance does work, but I'm assuming achievements won't be recorded since Steam doesn't recognize the game is being run unless it's started from the steam library

[Pious Heretic]

I don't know if this will help anyone else, but I did experience an issue like this with my own laptop. For some reason, it was trying to use the CPU graphics instead of the 970m, and even trying to set the GPU in the Nvidia control panel it kept defaulting right back to the integrated graphics.

Anyway, what fixed it for me was doing a clean reinstall of the graphics driver. However, trying to do this at first resulted in an error where the system was telling me something like "A system restart is required" and blah, blah, blah, but a restart wouldn't fix it. SO, I had to run this program called CCleaner to clean up the registry, then perform a clean install of the graphics driver. At that point, I could manually set the GPU. Of course, it was selecting the appropriate GPU automatically anyway.

That's what fixed my issue. I hope this helps someone.