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    P170EM Windows 10 GTX 970m working NVIDIA optimus driver?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by bn880, Sep 28, 2016.

  1. bn880

    bn880 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi all, it's been a while.

    Recently I noticed that after upgrading to Win 10 on my P170EM with a GTX970m, Optimus is failing to switch to the NVIDIA GPU on almost all titles. The only time I can get it to use the dGPU is in 1 or 2 tests from MSI Kombustor.

    So my question is, to those with 150EM and 170EM +970/980m running win 10. What version of Intel GPU and NVIDIA driver are you using to get Optimus to actually work and utilize the dGPU? Where can they be downloaded?

    I tried everything i could, including DDU and different drivers that I had/found. Messing with the power options and NVIDIA profiles, etc.

    My driver versions are
    Intel: 9.17.10.2857 (Sager website), 10.18.10.4358 (Eurocom website I believe)
    NVIDIA: 10.18.13.5362 (Eurocom website)

    All Optimus user interfaces seem to function alright, but the end result is still iGPU being used. I guess the only thing not working from the NVIDIA menu is the "run with graphics processor" context menu entry.

    OT: I'm a bit peeved as my Win 7 backup got wiped even though I renamed the folder, so I can't roll back to win 7! Not a happy camper.
     
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    Solved: 345.20-notebook-win8-win7-64bit-international-whql works! (cant recall where I grabbed it) Bloody windows laptop 10 drivers...