Can't change NVIDIA display mode

[antonilmf88]

It seems that after the newest steam update, my laptop can't change from my integrated graphics card to my other nvidia graphics card when I play a game. When I checked the error, it shows that steam is blocking the auto change process? Does anyone have a solution to this?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Set Steam Client to Beta and retest.

None of that should have anything to do with Steam since that is controlled by OS and GPU Driver.

Wipe everything for both GPUs, reboot and download and install latest drivers for both gpus. Reboot and set NVIDIA as the default and set NVIDIA power to Prefer Max Performance.

If a game still loads up using onboard GPU, exit the game and set the game to use NVIDIA GPU via Win10/11 Graphics Settings > Browse > add game EXE and then set to High Performance GPU

[MalusNox]

Looks like a LOT of people are having the same issue, myself included. It's probably an issue from the latest Steam update because "steamwebhelper.exe" is what's blocking the switch for many according to the NVIDIA Control Panel.
This topic goes into more details: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/4298193819410923422

[Iron Knights]

Disable integrated graphics in BIOS. Windows will block switching also as it thinks it's appropriate or not.

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Originally posted by Iron Knights:

Disable integrated graphics in BIOS. Windows will block switching also as it thinks it's appropriate or not.

you cannot do this, the laptop igpu is the only thing attached to the displays
the nvidia gpu has no outputs, it writes to the intel hd/uhd or amd igpu frame buffer for that to display and control vsync