No GPU usage from Wallpaper engine.

[Mugman Lord]

I have a laptop , I tried Nvidia control panel but nothing seems to work.
Specs:
i7-7700HQ
GTX1060
16gb ddr4 ram (idk the clock)
Msi laptop ( in case that is usefull to know)
My gpu usage is still at 0% whatever I try.

Any ideas?

[Biohazard]

By default it uses the Intel GPU unless you change it in the Nvidia control panel to use the GTX 1060.

But what are you looking for exactly? Do you mean the task manager isn't showing the GPU usage right or do you mean it's heavy on the CPU instead of using the GPU? The latter should only concern video wallpapers when video hardware acceleration is unavailable.

[Mugman Lord]

Its heavy on the CPU instead of GPU.. I am trying to make it work on gpu too because laptop is weak in term of CPU and I want that my PC is quiter when idle.

[Mugman Lord]

Little update , my task manager says 0% gpu usage but msi dragon center says 16% gpu usage. So confusing -.-

[Biohazard]

The task manager GPU info is buggy in general, it's just not very reliable. Try changing it to the Nvidia GPU in the control panel.

Otherwise please share the wallpaper, maybe it's just expensive to display. Make sure the FPS are low and also turn MSAA off (both only affects scene type wallpapers).

[Mugman Lord]

Thanks for the help. I saw you alot of times in the forums of wallpaper engine , keep the great work!

[Leadz]

A little bit late, but I will leave a solution that worked really well for my acer notebook!
Selecting dedicated GPU using windows configuration:
Right click on your desktop > display settings > Graphics settings
Choose wallpaper64.exe (or wallpaper32.exe) from desktop apps. Go options and select high performance. Done!
Now I can see the process in my nvidia gpu activity