New Sager laptop w/ GeForce 1060 but Adobe CC apps crash because of Intel HD Graphics?

afrank71

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Hi.
Hi. I just recently received my new Sager NP8152-S laptop
It was customized and came with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB) GDDR5 display card.

The laptop arrived with Windows 10 Home installed, with drivers installed, no bloatware.

I have an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription and yesterday I installed Adobe Creative Cloud.
It seems that several Adobe apps are crashing. Photoshop crashes when I open a file (even a new file). Premiere Pro crashes upon launching the app, etc.

Looking at my Windows Event Viewer I see this:

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Faulting application name: Photoshop.exe, version: 17.0.1.156, time stamp: 0x5792635d
Faulting module name: igdrcl64.dll, version: 21.20.16.4494, time stamp: 0x57963ec5
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000634bd0
Faulting process id: 0x6b4
Faulting application start time: 0x01d22723dca93316
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5\Photoshop.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\igdrcl64.dll

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It seems that "igdrcl64.dll" has to do with the Intel HD Graphics card.

The same dll is mentioned with other Adobe apps crashing.

It's likely I have an integrated Intel HD Graphics card onboard, which may or may have not been disabled when assembling the laptop, but not really sure about this.

That said, I don't see an Intel HD Graphics card appearing in Windows Device Manager. I only see the NVIDIA GeForce card.

I opened Photoshop preferences and it is already set to use the NVIDIA Geforce card.

Any ideas?

Specs:
15.6” FHD 16:9 IPS LED-Backlit w/ G-SYNC Technology (1920x1080)
Windows® 10 Home 64-Bit
6th Generation Intel® Skylake™ i7-6700HQ (2.6GHz - 3.5GHz, 6MB Intel® Smart Cache)
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 (6GB) GDDR5 (Pascal)
32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory
M.2 Slot 1: 500GB Samsung 850 EVO M.2 SSD
2.5" Bay 1: 500GB Samsung 850 EVO Series SSD
Intel® Dual Band AC 8260 802.11 A/AC/B/G/N 2.4/5.0GHz + Bluetooth™ 4.0 [M.2 Chip]
 
Solution
Problem solved.

Solution:
Enter bios > Advanced > changing the "MSHybrid or DEDICATED" switch from DEDICATED to MSHybrid.
Save and exit bios
Go to NVIDIA control panel and under the Programs tab make sure that Photoshop, Premiere Pro, etc are set to use the dedicated NVIDIA card
Now all is good.

afrank71

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Problem solved.

Solution:
Enter bios > Advanced > changing the "MSHybrid or DEDICATED" switch from DEDICATED to MSHybrid.
Save and exit bios
Go to NVIDIA control panel and under the Programs tab make sure that Photoshop, Premiere Pro, etc are set to use the dedicated NVIDIA card
Now all is good.
 
Solution

kgt1182

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You have to set the preferences on both Adobe CS and NVIDIA Control Panel. Else they will conflict.

Go to NVIDIA Control Panel, Add a preference to use the GTX 1060 for Adobe CS 6. Then the program will render on your GPU with your CPU.

That is a nice laptop you got there, a powerful machine. :)