Forcing Windows to use integrated graphics card

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Apr 12, 2013
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I have a r9 290x and it works flawlessly for most games, but some low-end games simply don't seem to be able to run on it at a decent framerate no matter what i do. The game i'm mainly trying to get running decent (stable 50+ fps) is minecraft, which is, sad, but oh well.

Before i go any further, yes, i have tried updating drivers, adding javaw to the gaming section of CCC/Crimson, and yes i set my overDrive power limit to +50% for it. None of those worked, they gave me a slight fps increase, but the game still only runs at 10-40, sometimes 50 fps.

As a last resort, i want to try make my PC use the integrated intel HD 4000 to run Minecraft in hopes of it performing at at least 60 fps, is there any good way to do this?
 
Solution
Switch your graphic card setting on bios by changing "PCI/PEG graphic" to "IGD graphic"
Oh and, HD4400 performs worse, very worse than your r9.

Try to update your java runtime (because minecraft runs under java and opengl) and set "min allocated memory" on minecraft launcher to 4096 or bigger, depends on how many GBs ram you have.
Can you describe more, your os version and your system specs?

And I'm a fanatics fan of minecraft, so trust me and try this before you mess with your bios, it's too risky.
on newer intel mb go into the bios. your looking for two lines in the bios. one is primany display. this is the display that start on power up. if your going to turn on the ipgpu set this to peg/pci to keep the main video output from the gpu.
the next line your looking for is multi monitor support. by default is may be set to off. turn it on and both gpu will be on. when you go under display adapters both should show up.
 
Switch your graphic card setting on bios by changing "PCI/PEG graphic" to "IGD graphic"
Oh and, HD4400 performs worse, very worse than your r9.

Try to update your java runtime (because minecraft runs under java and opengl) and set "min allocated memory" on minecraft launcher to 4096 or bigger, depends on how many GBs ram you have.
Can you describe more, your os version and your system specs?

And I'm a fanatics fan of minecraft, so trust me and try this before you mess with your bios, it's too risky.
 
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