No Way To Use My Nvidia Card?

[OldFatGuy]

According to my system info, my graphics card is: "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super with Max-Q Design" but it insists on using my built in Intel UHD Graphics card. Really? People with laptops can't play this game high quality because it will only use the lame ass Intel built in graphics? Seriously??? In 2024???

What I've tried:

Going into settings and turning Auto Select Graphics card to ON. Nope.

Going into settings and clicking on the Intel UHD Graphics yellow item to see if it displayed a drop down to then select the Nvidia card. Nope.

Going into Nvidia control Panel and under Program settings chose Nvidia under OpenGL Rendering GPU. Nope.

Going into Nvidia control panel and under Global Settings chose the Nvidia card under preferred settings. Nope.

What the heck else is there to try? For a game in 2024???? Makes me wonder now whether the plain old Borderlands GOTY also used the Intel card because I wondered why my frame rates were kind of low for a game that age, but I couldn't even find the option in the original GOTY edition. There is no "pre-screen" that comes with that one like the little mini-screen that appears with the GOTY Enhanced one. In the original GOTY edition I couldn't find it listed which card it is using. But under GOTY Enhanced it shows up under SETTINGS in that little mini-pop up box that appears when first launching and it shows it's using the Intel UHD graphics.

Forgot to mention that I also tried switching to Nvidia under OpenGL Rendering GPU for the launcher as well as the exe. Tried switching it on both. Also I see the game store has a release date of 2023 instead of 2024 (which I mentioned above). Sorry. But still, a game released in 2023 that doesn't know how to use a high end GPU with Intel laptops?? In 2023??? FFS.

I mean seriously? A game this well known and popular and it doesn't know how to interact with Intel laptops that have high end GPU's added? For real????

[Miner Of Worlds]

It's a known issue with the remaster. Here are some things to try: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgamingtechsupport/comments/b962go/comment/ek31a9a/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
https://steamcommunity.com/app/729040/discussions/0/1813170373215998549/

[OldFatGuy]

Originally posted by Miner Of Worlds:

It's a known issue with the remaster. Here are some things to try: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgamingtechsupport/comments/b962go/comment/ek31a9a/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
https://steamcommunity.com/app/729040/discussions/0/1813170373215998549/

Thank you very much, it was kind of you. No joy, however. Guess I won't be playing Borderlands or buying any others they might sell. Pretty frustrating TBH.

[zippydsmlee]

Originally posted by OldFatGuy:

According to my system info, my graphics card is: "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super with Max-Q Design" but it insists on using my built in Intel UHD Graphics card. Really? People with laptops can't play this game high quality because it will only use the lame ass Intel built in graphics? Seriously??? In 2024???

What I've tried:

Going into settings and turning Auto Select Graphics card to ON. Nope.

Going into settings and clicking on the Intel UHD Graphics yellow item to see if it displayed a drop down to then select the Nvidia card. Nope.

Going into Nvidia control Panel and under Program settings chose Nvidia under OpenGL Rendering GPU. Nope.

Going into Nvidia control panel and under Global Settings chose the Nvidia card under preferred settings. Nope.

What the heck else is there to try? For a game in 2024???? Makes me wonder now whether the plain old Borderlands GOTY also used the Intel card because I wondered why my frame rates were kind of low for a game that age, but I couldn't even find the option in the original GOTY edition. There is no "pre-screen" that comes with that one like the little mini-screen that appears with the GOTY Enhanced one. In the original GOTY edition I couldn't find it listed which card it is using. But under GOTY Enhanced it shows up under SETTINGS in that little mini-pop up box that appears when first launching and it shows it's using the Intel UHD graphics.

Forgot to mention that I also tried switching to Nvidia under OpenGL Rendering GPU for the launcher as well as the exe. Tried switching it on both. Also I see the game store has a release date of 2023 instead of 2024 (which I mentioned above). Sorry. But still, a game released in 2023 that doesn't know how to use a high end GPU with Intel laptops?? In 2023??? FFS.

I mean seriously? A game this well known and popular and it doesn't know how to interact with Intel laptops that have high end GPU's added? For real????

Its a win10 setting.

https://pureinfotech.com/set-gpu-app-windows-10/

You will have to add it, then set it to high performance mode.

Least thats less annoying than trying to play the game but its blocked in firewall, game crashes because it want online, steam offline mode works fine, but I do not want to fiddle with offline/online or firewall every time I play.

[OldFatGuy]

Originally posted by zippydsmlee:

Its a win10 setting.

https://pureinfotech.com/set-gpu-app-windows-10/

You will have to add it, then set it to high performance mode.

Least thats less annoying than trying to play the game but its blocked in firewall, game crashes because it want online, steam offline mode works fine, but I do not want to fiddle with offline/online or firewall every time I play.

Thank you very much. I was never aware of that setting and wish there was a way to set it to make the high performance option global (which I did in the Nvidia control panel).

Alas, setting it to global on the Nvidia Control Panel and adding both the launcher.exe and the borderlandsGOTY.exe and changing them both to high performance... nothing changed. When I click play and then settings, the Intel card is still listed as the card used... with no way that I could find to change it. That link said that in some cases it may require changing things in the app itself... but if there is a way to change it in Borderlands... I can't find it.

Thank you very much for this info though. I can very much foresee the day when I will need to use that again. I had no idea that setting was even there. Very much appreciated.

At times though I wonder if the game really is just using the Intel GPU instead of the Nvidia one or if it's maybe a case of it's just incorrectly being shown on that screen as the GPU that's used, because the other day I maximized all video settings, I mean set them all to the highest setting possible... and the game ran okay. I'm not sure it would if it were really using the Intel GPU, but maybe it would, I dunno. This particular Intel chip is a 2020 chip so perhaps their Intel GPU's have improved. Or, maybe it's really using the Nvidia card but for some reason is just showing the Intel one on the settings screen. I dunno. I'm not tech smart at all, and don't know how I would tell which GPU is being used when running Borderlands (or any other "app" for that matter... why did we used to call them programs and now we call them apps? It's still a computer, not a phone or tablet. I don't get it.)

[zippydsmlee]

Originally posted by OldFatGuy:

Originally posted by zippydsmlee:

Its a win10 setting.

https://pureinfotech.com/set-gpu-app-windows-10/

You will have to add it, then set it to high performance mode.

Least thats less annoying than trying to play the game but its blocked in firewall, game crashes because it want online, steam offline mode works fine, but I do not want to fiddle with offline/online or firewall every time I play.

Thank you very much. I was never aware of that setting and wish there was a way to set it to make the high performance option global (which I did in the Nvidia control panel).

Alas, setting it to global on the Nvidia Control Panel and adding both the launcher.exe and the borderlandsGOTY.exe and changing them both to high performance... nothing changed. When I click play and then settings, the Intel card is still listed as the card used... with no way that I could find to change it. That link said that in some cases it may require changing things in the app itself... but if there is a way to change it in Borderlands... I can't find it.

Thank you very much for this info though. I can very much foresee the day when I will need to use that again. I had no idea that setting was even there. Very much appreciated.

At times though I wonder if the game really is just using the Intel GPU instead of the Nvidia one or if it's maybe a case of it's just incorrectly being shown on that screen as the GPU that's used, because the other day I maximized all video settings, I mean set them all to the highest setting possible... and the game ran okay. I'm not sure it would if it were really using the Intel GPU, but maybe it would, I dunno. This particular Intel chip is a 2020 chip so perhaps their Intel GPU's have improved. Or, maybe it's really using the Nvidia card but for some reason is just showing the Intel one on the settings screen. I dunno. I'm not tech smart at all, and don't know how I would tell which GPU is being used when running Borderlands (or any other "app" for that matter... why did we used to call them programs and now we call them apps? It's still a computer, not a phone or tablet. I don't get it.)

Kids and their new fangled nomenclature I am still pissed Microsoft broke bat files

Ya hybrid systems IE laptops are going to be strange, half due to game devs not thinking about multi card systems, and anything on windows end is going to be backwards. Because Microsoft is about pushing bugs I means features, not options for users to use.

Using this link as a reference, ignore nivdia control panel as windows default laptop gpus are not controlled there(the ninvida hardware is but not the default IE what programs see)

https://windowsloop.com/set-nvidia-graphics-card-as-default-windows/

Go to settings, then to display, its either going to say classic app or desktop app. Click browse and go and select the borderlandsGOTY.exe , should not need the launcher, its extra jank that may confuse things.

With borderlandsGOTY.exe added, it should show it below, click on options, select high performance and save.

Now run the game exe directly, unlike newer games that wont launch outside steam this game will run fine, you can disable the launcher in the options , in baorderlands, I first suggest you default the settings, close the game relaunch the game exe, then turn off the launcher.

You can bypass doing all this, by finding window power settings in settings, and setting windows on high performance mode, it may bypass the igpu altogether.

On a 2080 laptop the game should run at 40-60fps with vsync at 1080, enable fps counter in stream if you want to see the frame rate.(I get steady 60fps with few drops on a 3060)

I almost want to say Unbuntu may work easier than win 10 for older games. I am getting to the point to use unbuntu for basic stuff and run a win10 machine for some games through a capture card on the lunix box..... They broke win10 and win11 is as fun as vista or 8... win11 is headed to an apple style walled garden and I want nothing to do with it.
*sigh*

[ADuckonpcp]

Posting to say that the majority of the convoluted steps seemed unnecessary. I went as far as going into my Bios (i am technologically illiterate) to try and find a way to auto detect my graphics card. After affirming high performance in windows settings just bypass the launcher by directly using the GOTY.exe file.

[zippydsmlee]

Originally posted by ADuckonpcp:

Posting to say that the majority of the convoluted steps seemed unnecessary. I went as far as going into my Bios (i am technologically illiterate) to try and find a way to auto detect my graphics card. After affirming high performance in windows settings just bypass the launcher by directly using the GOTY.exe file.

If windows would work every time just by doing that, you'd not need to go through extra steps. Every other windows install is different and will randomly not work right, because thats how wonky windose is..

[Muhammad ibn Abdullah]

skill issue

[zippydsmlee]

Originally posted by Muhammad ibn Abdullah:

skill issue

Would help if windows was not drunk ll the time.