Games not using Nvidia Card

gdriveramiller

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So I'm sure this question has come up a lot, but I've done hours of googling and searching and have tried all found suggestions and nothing seems to be working.

A few games are defaulting to my integrated card(Intel 4000) instead of my Nvidia card(630m). MSI shows the usage at 0% for my Nvidia card, and the frame rates are bad on graphic settings that should be fine.

Most games I could solve by simply manually adding them to the control panel, but one game in particular has been a thorn in my side which is C&C Red Alert 3 from the Ultimate Collection. I know its a relatively old game and even high settings I'm getting around 15-20 or so fps.

I've tried adding the ra3_1.12.game to the control panel, disabled V sync and AA, right clicking the shortcut and hitting "use high-performance", changed my power settings to "max performance".

I tried making a profile and adding the ra3_1.12.game to the ra3 profile using Nvidia inspector but it just says its already included.

I also disabled my integrated card, but upon doing so I just got a black screen and needed to reset my BIOS.

Am I just not doing these troubleshoots correctly, am I missing something?

Thanks for the help!
 

gdriveramiller

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As in old versions? No, not sure how to roll back drivers.
 


not necessarily. did you have the latest driver?
 


have you tried doing clean install driver? if not try doing so using this software:

http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/display_driver_uninstaller_download.html

then make sure you reinstall latest driver for both your intel IGP and nvidia card. if that still doesn't fix your problem then it could be the driver(s) are not able to detect the game. head over to nvidia official forum and try asking over there

https://forums.geforce.com/