The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Guild Wars 2 Didn't Detect My NVIDIA 680M Card

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by snowfi6916, Oct 25, 2012.

  1. snowfi6916

    snowfi6916 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    34
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Hi guys. This is probably a non issue, as I think I know what the problem is. But I'm going to ask anyway.

    I finally got my new laptop last night, and everything is working great. I downloaded the newest NVIDIA drivers (306.97) and then started up GW2. For the graphics settings, I did "auto-detect", and it set most of the settings to low. I then did "Best Appearance", and the frame rate was 15.

    I know for a fact that with the 680M, I can max out the settings with GW2. When I exited and went back to my desktop, I tried to go to the NVIDIA control panel, and it told me that I couldn't open it because there was no NVIDIA card on my computer.

    I restarted the computer, and the NVIDIA control panel worked again. I didn't get a chance to try out GW2 again though.

    So, I think my problem was that I didn't restart my computer after I downloaded the drivers, which is why GW2 said I didn't have a better card (I have a secondary Intel HD Graphics 4000 card too).

    Is there anything else it could be, or am I right in my assumption? Because I'm really hoping I don't need to send this laptop back. Thanks.
     
    snowfi6916, Oct 25, 2012
    #1
  2. fenryr423

    fenryr423 Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    29
    Messages:
    542
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    in the nvidia control panel go to manage 3d settings and where it says "auto-detect" click to bring up a drop down menu and select "prefer maximum performance" This will tell you computer to prefer the nvidia card for applications.
     
    fenryr423, Oct 25, 2012
    #2
  3. snowfi6916

    snowfi6916 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    34
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Thanks, I'll try that out when I get home.
     
    snowfi6916, Oct 25, 2012
    #3