Windows 10: i cant get my games to use my dedicated GPU instead of my integrated graphics

Heres my specsRazer Blade 15 RZ09-03018E02 laptopIntelR Core i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHzRTX 2080 Max-Q16gb RAM64-bitWindows 11 Home 22H2Im trying to play riders republic, i boot it up and see im only getting around 15 fpsI check my windows graphics settings and see that its using integrated graphicsWhen i go to change it, it shows both power saving and high peformance are integrated graphics IntelR UHD Graphics 630I then try to change it via nvidea control panel, just to see that it doesnt openi check task manager>peformance to see if my GPU is there, it was notSo i try to update my GPU

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Games running with Integrated Graphics Card instead of Dedicated one

I appreciate your help, but no matter what I try, the game still runs with the Intel video card (when I try to get best settings it's still on low). I attached a pic with the Intel overriding the settings.

Nothing to be done it seems.

 

Integrated GPU being used instead of dedicated GPU regardless of settings

My applications won't properly use my dedicated graphics card. This has been an ongoing issue for a while, but I don't recall for how long.

There's a similar thread of someone that has had the same issue but it didn't resolve anything for me.

My computer specs are here in a text file.

The example game I'll be mostly using is Grounded, since that's where I first noticed this. I've tried most solutions from other people on the internet, but none have worked so far. For some reason, only Discord seems to use my dedicated graphics card, which makes me think that the problem is in the software, not the hardware. I've got a screenshot of Discord using GPU 1 (my NVDIA card), whilst Grounded uses GPU 0 (my integrated graphics card). All other applications have been using GPU 0.

Strangely enough, while some games are opening, they say "GPU 1 - Copy" before switching to GPU 0 when booted. I'm not sure if this bears any relevance.

Things I've tried:

• Changing my Windows preferred GPU. This screenshot shows the preference for Grounded, while this one shows that the high performance processor is my NVIDIA card.
  
• Disabling my integrated GPU driver through device manager. Instead of using my dedicated GPU, programs will now run off the CPU instead. Attached is a screenshot of my Intel card being disabled. I dont have a screenshot of the apps in task manager using the CPU, but none of them were using my NVIDIA card after I disabled the Intel one.
  
• Changing the settings in the NVIDIA control panel. Although the control panel says the settings are now controlled by Windows, I made sure for them to prioritise the GPU usage anyway. Screenshot attached.
  
• Do a fresh install of both my graphics drivers. I did a clean install of the NVDIA drivers through GeForce Experience, and a clean install of the Intel drivers using Intel Driver and Support Assistant. Both are up to date and fresh installs.
  
• Enable hardware acceleration. This didn't make a difference.
  
• Alter my power plan and battery settings to always maximise performance.
  
• Enable performance mode on my computer through Control Center 3.0 (a driver package that I installed from my manufacturer, Metabox)
  

If anyone could please help me try to fix this issue that would be greatly appreciated. This has been bugging me for a while as it massively impacts game performance when games won't use my dedicated graphics card.

 

Windows 11 using integrated graphics instead of dedicated graphics

Hi, I use a Dell G15 5510 with an RTX 3060 Laptop and an Intel integrated graphics but when I BeamNG for some reason it uses integrated graphics instead of dedicated. I have changed settings in Windows to make it prefer to use dedicated and also in the nvidia control panel. I have dowloaded all updates drivers etc. but it still doesn't change anything. Instead it uses around 30-40% of integrated while the dedicated is being used 0% and randomly spiking up to 100% for half a second or so. I also noticed that it uses the dedicated graphics to load things but integrated for the actual game.Does anyone know how to fix this?