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My Laptop won't use dedicated GPU for gaming

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June 9, 2014 9:05:17 AM

First all, apologies for my English

I have a laptop that I use to play games. It has two graphic cards, an integrated Intel HD card and a NVIDIA GeForce 710M

It used to run battlefield 3 on 20 fps, skyrim on 40 and many other games but after a month without using it, I recently used it again and suddenly my games run on the Integrated GPU. I messed up with the display settings (Forgot what I really did, I think I merged the 2 GPU monitors) and it started working again but there was no mouse pointer ingame so I had the bright idea to restore to the last time I used it but now the mouse appears again but it uses my Intel HD GPU again

When I open the Skyrim Launcher for example, I can only choose my Intel HD card
In Battlefield settings, I can't switch fullscreen monitors and If I run battlefield on windowed mode, the FPS doesn't change
Things I tried :
- Reinstalling the drivers (failed , I then searched on google and it's a common issue that Nvidia drivers won't reinstall so I used programs like Display Driver uninstaller but still nothing. My only solution then was to restore the system to before the uninstall so I'm back to where I was.
- Desactivating and reactivating the Integrated GPU on the BIOS (I can't desactivate the Intel HD card)
- Switching desktop monitor to my Nvidia card make a black screen.
- I tried to force the games to run with my Nvidia card throught the Nvidia control panel but the settings are resetted once a game is opened (and they reset again if I open the game before)

I have trying to fix this for 6 hours and I searched google a lot but it's still always the same suggestions.

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June 9, 2014 3:25:01 PM

Go into the BIOS and set the gpu there.
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June 9, 2014 7:29:12 PM

In the BIOS I can choose between Integrated Graphic mode or Switchable (can't simply select the Dedicated one)
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