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.

    MSI G70 GPU Concerns / Confusion

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by Thwaite81, Mar 17, 2014.

  1. Thwaite81

    Thwaite81 Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    8
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hello all,

    I recently bought an MSI G70 and when I run DXDIAG and the NVIDIA control panel, all the computer identifies is the Intel HD 4600 and not the 780M. Under the Control Panel system settings, the 780M is visible however I find it weird the 780M is not displaying on the others. I tried to play some games such as Skyrim and the 780M was immediately detected and used however in games such as Hawken, the game was set to "Low" due to the detected GPU. Which made me believe the 4600 was detected.

    Anyone able to explain this to me? If the computer defective?
     
    Thwaite81, Mar 17, 2014
    #1
  2. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

    Reputations:
    9,436
    Messages:
    58,194
    Likes Received:
    17,902
    Trophy Points:
    931
    Some programs can't see through optimus, simple as.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Mar 18, 2014
    #2
  3. qweryuiop

    qweryuiop Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    373
    Messages:
    1,364
    Likes Received:
    89
    Trophy Points:
    66
    right click on the programs that launched incorrectly and go to "Run with graphics processor" to select the right GPU, if it works as it should, go to the nvidia control panel-> manage 3D settings->Program settings and add the program to select the correct GPU to launch the program, also set the power option to high performance
     
    qweryuiop, Mar 18, 2014
    #3
  4. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

    Reputations:
    9,436
    Messages:
    58,194
    Likes Received:
    17,902
    Trophy Points:
    931
    And those programs will still detect the IGP when applying default settings even though it's running off the dGPU. His performance was not slow, just the default settings the game tried were low.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Mar 19, 2014
    #4
  5. Kevin@GenTechPC

    Kevin@GenTechPC Company Representative

    Reputations:
    1,014
    Messages:
    8,500
    Likes Received:
    2,098
    Trophy Points:
    331
    Most of programs will treat Intel HD Graphics as primary graphics, however you can pay attention to the color of power LED.
    White = Intel HD.
    Orange = Nvidia GPU.

    So don't worry about what the game/application says, just use it and observe the change of light.
     
    Kevin@GenTechPC, Mar 19, 2014
    #5
    xMAR99 likes this.
  6. Thwaite81

    Thwaite81 Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    8
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Awesome! Thank you everyone for explaining it.

    I am good now :)
     
    Thwaite81, Mar 19, 2014
    #6