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    nVidia Optimus won't let me choose nVidia GPU

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by HTWingNut, Jul 31, 2012.

  1. HTWingNut

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    Ok, I've been running benchmarks galore on my 680m. Everything has been fine. Then I go to run Resident Evil 5 again to do some comparisons and it's running slow. I exit and check control panel but it won't let choose the GTX 680m to use with RE5 now. The pull down menu is grayed out.

    One thing that I thought was odd was that I selected the "launcher.exe" for re5 and it switched to World of Warcraft (launcher.exe) and I think that screwed it up. I don't have WoW installed on my laptop, never have. But even if I try to manually add launcher.exe for RE5 it sees it as the WoW launcher.exe.

    It won't let me remove WoW from my list either.

    Is there a way to manually remove a game from the optimus list in the registry or config file or something?
     
    HTWingNut, Jul 31, 2012
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    Nevermind. I had to rename re5dx9.exe to something else and add it manually to Optimus and set it to 680m, now it works. Just another reason why I hate "automatic" switchable graphics.
     
    HTWingNut, Jul 31, 2012
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    This happened to me also with the original witcher! Thanks for the fix!
     
    fenryr423, Aug 1, 2012
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    This is why I hate it when software thinks it's smarter than me...
     
    HTWingNut, Aug 1, 2012
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    DEagleson Gamer extraordinaire

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    Its gonna take a while until we reach that kind of software. :)

    Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2
     
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    It won't take too much to be smarter than me. I think an old 286 exceeded that milestone. :p
     
    HTWingNut, Aug 1, 2012
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