any way to make my dedicated gpu appear in dxdiag?

[andreasaspenberg575]

it is affecting 2 of my laptops. several newer unreal engine games will only run on the integrated gpu(i have to actually disable the dedicated gpu for them to run), because my dedicated gpu does not appear in dxdiag. it is limited to unreal engine 4 games however. other games will generally work, with the exception of age of mythology, which have the same issue, except that is does not crash. dark reign 2 also fails to run on the dedicated gpu. if i could just make it appear in dxdiag, the problem would be solved. or so i believe. the gpus is gt 630m and gtx 770m.

[_I_]

use gpuz

set windows to use the dedicated gpu for those games

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Check in your device manager display adapter. Disable the onboard integrated.
If your dedicated GPU is fairly new model it will be backwards compatible with all games.
Check for driver updates this will help.
DXDIAG will automatically run a test using the dedicated once its your default.
Windows assigns the hardware as per the motherboard position. insure your monitor is connected to the dedicated not the onboard integrated.
Adding run the dxdiag with elevated privilages, do a search for dxdiag when you see it listed right click it run as admininstrator..
you should be typing into run dxdiag press enter

[_I_]

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:

Check in your device manager display adapter. Disable the onboard integrated.
If your dedicated GPU is fairly new model it will be backwards compatible with all games.
Check for driver updates this will help.
DXDIAG will automatically run a test using the dedicated once its your default.
Windows assigns the hardware as per the motherboard position. insure your monitor is connected to the dedicated not the onboard integrated.
Adding run the dxdiag with elevated privilages, do a search for dxdiag when you see it listed right click it run as admininstrator..
you should be typing into run dxdiag press enter

cant do this on laptops

[N3tRunn3r]

if you use nvidia gpus, open nvidia control panel. check its settings ::

NVIDIA Control Panel > 3D-Settings > Global Settings > High performance nvidia processor
>> Apply

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/156944/where-is-the-use-high-performance-gpu-option/

then also disable "nvidia gpu only", and disable "optimus"
enable auto-switch !!
>> Apply

also manually set PhysX to your Dedicated NVIDIA GPU in nvidia control panel
>> Apply

in any case uninstall nvidia experience !! it does nothing but eats up hardware and software resources and your machine's performance !!


https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/3830914462336477185/#c5940851423458799729

Originally posted by _I_:

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:

Check in your device manager display adapter. Disable the onboard integrated.
If your dedicated GPU is fairly new model it will be backwards compatible with all games.
Check for driver updates this will help.
. . .

cant do this on laptops

it works on laptops, but is NOT recommended !!

[andreasaspenberg575]

i already tried to disable the integrated gpu and that prevented the dedicated gpu from doing anything. that was the case even on my cepter laptop, where both gpus appeared in dxdiag. i can provide more details however. when i disabled my integrated gpu, dxdiag showed no gpu. i have already use nvidia control panel to specify my dedicated gpu as the preferred gpu and most games runs on it, except newer unreal engine 4 games and the games i mentioned. there is no bios settings i can use for this. i already checked the bios. i do not have nvidia experience installed. i already set physx to use my dedicated gpu years ago. my graphics card`s drivers is already fully updated. here is a strange thing: it works with unreal engine 5 and i some times run the latest version of slender: the arrival on it. only times it glitch is when it takes too long to load assets but, that is only temporary.

[AmaiAmai]

Originally posted by andreasaspenberg575:

i already tried to disable the integrated gpu and that prevented the dedicated gpu from doing anything. that was the case even on my cepter laptop, where both gpus appeared in dxdiag. i can provide more details however. when i disabled my integrated gpu, dxdiag showed no gpu. i have already use nvidia control panel to specify my dedicated gpu as the preferred gpu and most games runs on it, except newer unreal engine 4 games and the games i mentioned. there is no bios settings i can use for this. i already checked the bios. i do not have nvidia experience installed. i already set physx to use my dedicated gpu years ago. my graphics card`s drivers is already fully updated. here is a strange thing: it works with unreal engine 5 and i some times run the latest version of slender: the arrival on it. only times it glitch is when it takes too long to load assets but, that is only temporary.

Uh if you don't have GeForce experience installed, how are you so certain you even have Nvidia's drivers installed?

If a GPU doesn't show up in DXDIAG then either it's not functioning, the driver isn't installed, it wasn't initialized on boot (some GPUs do not support UEFI out the box), etc. -

You forgot the biggest piece of information you need to provide: CPU & Windows edition. You should also make sure you meet the requirements for whatever software you are trying to run.

Example:

UE5 requirements

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/hardware-and-software-specifications-for-unreal-engine

It doesn't support below Windows 10, doesn't support 32 bit, etc. BUT software may still run anyway -- but not supported means that it may not run for whatever reason, and if it doesn't you're out of luck.

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

If you plug into an external display via hdmi, then that will force the dedicated gpu to show up. External displays will be powered by the dedicated nvidia gpu. Laptop display is powered by the intel graphics and has a throughput for the nvidia processor.

[andreasaspenberg575]

the game does run but, only if i disable my dedicated gpu. i always use an external monitor connected by hdmi. my system is 64 bit and have 32 megabytes of ram and yet: it is not always enough for my browser. specially when my browser uses 4 gigabytes per tab some times. my problem is not with unreal engine 5 at all but, with unreal engine 4. i installed the gpu driver myself. the gpu is detected by some games, like sacred 2. both steam and edge uses it. just forget about unreal engine 5. that is not the issue anyway. the issue is games running on unreal engine 4.

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

Does it appear in steam?

Top of stem> Help> System Information

[AmaiAmai]

Originally posted by andreasaspenberg575:

the game does run but, only if i disable my dedicated gpu. i always use an external monitor connected by hdmi. my system is 64 bit and have 32 megabytes of ram and yet: it is not always enough for my browser. specially when my browser uses 4 gigabytes per tab some times. my problem is not with unreal engine 5 at all but, with unreal engine 4. i installed the gpu driver myself. the gpu is detected by some games, like sacred 2. both steam and edge uses it. just forget about unreal engine 5. that is not the issue anyway. the issue is games running on unreal engine 4.

When you say you installed the driver yourself, does that mean you used the INF driver install method? If the Nvidia GPU is actually installed properly in device manager you should see the GPU & the audio device for the GPU.

If you cannot see either then it isn't installed or the driver version is not compatible / has an issue with the version of Windows you are running.

If you can see it, check the date and make sure Windows did not install an old version of the driver.

[andreasaspenberg575]

my gpu does not have an audio device. the gpu itself is installed. i used either the official installer from nvidia`s website or the windows update method. the installed driver is the last available driver released for my graphics card. both gpus appears in steam, though only the integrated one is listed as direct x card. whatever that means. it likely means that only the integrated gpu is showing up in dxdiag, which i already know. the driver is dated april 2019.

[andreasaspenberg575]

i saw that this topic had falled so far down that most people will not see it so, i am pulling it back up.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You have no reason or need to use DXDIAG, we don't really need that anymore.

Use CPU-Z and GPU-Z

If you having an issue with apps such as Steam or Games always using your Onboard GPU; go into Windows Graphics Settings, click Browse, add the app/game EXE files into this listing and change the Options for each app listed to "High Performance GPU"

And in NVIDIA Control Panel, set High Performance GPU as the Default under Manage 3D Settings and also set the Power Management in there to "Prefer Max Performance"

[skOsH♥]

Another really useful program that displays a *ton* of data regarding the gpu and other components, is HWiNFO / Hwinfo64

everything that is monitored on the gpu, right there. It's like a BIOS tab where you can customize everything for a piece of hardware, but it's just every piece of information you would ever need about your gpu

I tend to use HWiNFO64, OpenHardwareMonitor, and CPU-Z and GPU-Z, and sort of take the running average after however long I need to stress test a gpu for.

[andreasaspenberg575]

the thing is that certain newer unreal engine 4 games can only run on a gpu present in dxdiag so, unless my gpu appears in dxdiag, the game can not use it.