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    Right click, Run as graphics card?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by alan2here, Dec 26, 2011.

  1. alan2here

    alan2here Newbie

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    My new Windows 7 laptop I got a couple of weeks back has two graphics cards, the useless built in one and an NVidia GForce one. However it seems to be set up on Windows 7 so that running a game using the GForce card requires right clicking to "run as" but then selecting the graphics card instead of a user.

    A Novatech support guy said this was the future and I have no trouble with the future being quite different, even inconvenient like this in places if it improves things overall, but given the eye pokingly unimpressive qualities of the screen over the one on my much older laptop, the "run as" thing and how I seem to have two different graphics drivers\their control panels installed, an intel one for "desktop" and the proper NVidia one for "high performance" covering gaming and the such, it seems like the past.
     
    alan2here, Dec 26, 2011
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  2. muerteman

    muerteman Notebook Consultant

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    It's the future. The integrated Intel is less powerful but much more battery efficient. The changing cards increases battery tremendously.

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    muerteman, Dec 26, 2011
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    Rambisco Notebook Consultant

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    It really helps for people who need battery life when they're not playing hardcore games. it's a way to help make gaming laptops a bit more portable.
     
    Rambisco, Dec 26, 2011
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