Steam client and its games not running on GPU

[76561199277488050]

Other apps which I have set to use the gpu in the nvidia control panel are running on the gpu fine. The steam client and the games ran fine on the gpu too until very recently. I tried setting steam and the games to use the gpu in the nvidia control panel, updated the driver used optimal settings in GeForce experience, nothing works. The GPU performace shows 0% on task manager. What should I do?

[Crazy Tiger]

Steam always shows 0% for me. Regarding the games, depending on the settings (like fullscreen and such) if you alt-tab out of them, some games get put on the background and it won't show GPU performance in the task manager.

Are you actually having graphical issues while playing your games?

[76561199277488050]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Steam always shows 0% for me. Regarding the games, depending on the settings (like fullscreen and such) if you alt-tab out of them, some games get put on the background and it won't show GPU performance in the task manager.

Are you actually having graphical issues while playing your games?

Yes, the performance difference is very apparent, can't even display the title screen without lagging and flickering now. And the GeForce Nvidia activity icon which shows the amount of apps using the gpu shows 0 processes. it shows me the game titles when other games are using it

[ReBoot]

What do the games run on otherwise?

[76561199277488050]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

What do the games run on otherwise?

Intel HD Graphics 5500, though I fixed it now. it's working fine. I added "-force-gpu-index:1 -adapter 1 setphysgpu 1 -force-d3d11 -gpu 1" as launch options which basically force the game to use the gpu. and run it with directx 11 just to be sure

[76561199277488050]

FIXED, with launch option -force-gpu-index:1 -adapter 1 setphysgpu 1 -force-d3d11 -gpu 1, 1 is the second GPU unit or 0 if yours is the first one. -force-d3d11 launches game with directx 11 just for good measure. You can ditch that one

[Mad Scientist]

You shouldn't have to do anything like that unless the monitor is connected to the motherboard instead of the gpu, which would explain why it would be defaulting to onboard instead of a GPU.

[76561199277488050]

Originally posted by Mad Scientist:

You shouldn't have to do anything like that unless the monitor is connected to the motherboard instead of the gpu, which would explain why it would be defaulting to onboard instead of a GPU.

What would you suggest is the best option then. I tried a lot of things. And that was the only thing that seemed to work

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by salmanmoh.eth:

Originally posted by Mad Scientist:

You shouldn't have to do anything like that unless the monitor is connected to the motherboard instead of the gpu, which would explain why it would be defaulting to onboard instead of a GPU.

What would you suggest is the best option then. I tried a lot of things. And that was the only thing that seemed to work

Plugging the monitors into the primary GPU would automatically default tasks to the GPU itself, there is nothing special you should need to do other than that. Onboards are used when the primary monitor is attached to the board instead of the GPU. If you werent using the GPU before, you'll want to cycle the system after to ensure everything will work properly. Onboard isn't supposed to display or essentially be enabled as primary use whenn the system detects a powered gpu, especially when a monitor is connected to it.

Else, go into your BIOS and change any option in regard to primary display, setting it to PCIE.