craineeum Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 For some reason I can't manually switch my graphics card. The function key doesn't do anything. Has anyone else had this problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kephra Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 I'm going to take a wild swing and guess you have an nvidia card for your discrete graphics (that it's the one in your sig)AW has a tendency to have Optimus running to handle transitions between the integrated and discrete cards.Open the nvidia control panel, and under 3d settings you can change your default from the HD card, to the nvidia discrete card (or go through program by program to control which one gets what display adapter).If that seems painful, and it likely does, go into BIOS and turn your integrated card off. There should be an option for video that has SG and PEG (SG is the on-board integrated Intel, PEG is the PCI Express Graphics discrete card). Even without unlocked bios, you should be able to select PEG (which should turn off the integrated entirely). Reboot, go back into BIOS. You should see integrated not detected, and the PCI discrete card. Finish booting and you should be running on nvidia only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordGMLP Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 If you have a 3D screen then you better read this: Alienware 17 with 120Hz 3D Display Has No Integrated Graphics or Optimus... | geek of technology I had this 'problem' until I found out there wasn't any Intel onboard graphics to switch to in the beginning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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