How do I know if my intergrated graphics are running or not?

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Legolas8181

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When playing a particular game I think my laptop is turning on the intergrated graphics because when i put it on Ultra it has a lot of lag and yet the game was released in 2008 and I have a 765M. It dosn't do it for other games like BF4
 
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my kid has the same gpu in an msi laptop. there are a few ways to tell which gpu is running. on the msi, when the nvidia card is in use, the led on the power button turns orange for nvidia, blu for the onboard intel graphics. second it instal either msi afterburner or evga prescion( i perfer the evga) when it installs it asks to install riva tuner. if you go to the settings in either afterburner or prescion, go to monitoring and choose the things you would like to see in an on screen display, like temps, fps, usage eg. go to the next tab over , which is osd and put toggle on screen display to f1 key or whichever you like. now start a game, if it doesnt have a display in the corner, hit f1. you should see it now , if its pink its nvidia, black is onboard. a few games, for whatever reason, wont trigger tthe nvidia card. off hand i think metal gear and castlevainia lords of shadows 2. if thats the case, you have to go to nvidia control panel and enable the gpu for those games, or just change the global setting to the nvidia card in manage 3d settings.

i hope i wasnt too confusing
 
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Legolas8181

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The game is Bully, I have a core i7-4700MQ with 8GB RAM and a GTX 765M. On BF4 I can run it on High without nay lag at all yet if I have this game on anything higher than the default low settings I get lag
 
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enter your BIOS and look for an option that toggles Integrated Graphics.
 
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