So I got a new notebook

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Froglord of DESTINY!!! wrote on 2013-12-26 01:13

It's got an intel Hd graphics 4600 with Nvidia Gforce GT 740M (
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It runs like a dream!) , however with some games I get a incompatability error saying that I don't have the minimum requirements to run said games without conflict or some sort of malfunction that may occure.

How would I go about fixing this?
Ashikoki wrote on 2013-12-26 01:16

intel Hd graphics 4600 with Nvidia Gforce GT 740M

Its... got both?
Froglord of DESTINY!!! wrote on 2013-12-26 01:22

Quote from Ashikoki;1181763:
Its... got both?

Yes, at least, that's what the drive manager says. :|
Yanm wrote on 2013-12-26 01:22

Quote from Ashikoki;1181763:
Its... got both?

Should be. The Intel HD is just the integrated graphics card, the Nvidia is the discrete GPU. Does the great Ashi not know what I mean by this? :chin: Or did you just derp temporarily?

@Frog, does this happen while running the game itself or something like canyourunit?
Froglord of DESTINY!!! wrote on 2013-12-26 01:29

Quote from Yanm;1181767:
Should be. The Intel HD is just the integrated graphics card, the Nvidia is the discrete GPU. Does the great Ashi not know what I mean by this? :chin: Or did you just derp temporarily?

@Frog, does this happen while running the game itself or something like canyourunit?

When I open the .exe it occurs

For games like mabi or ms, it appears after the startup, In mabi there's a lot of trippy stuff going on with lightning, and the ground turns black after going through the options.
Ashikoki wrote on 2013-12-26 01:31

Quote from Yanm;1181767:
Should be. The Intel HD is just the integrated graphics card, the Nvidia is the discrete GPU.

Seemed to imply he was running both at once.
Froglord of DESTINY!!! wrote on 2013-12-26 01:34

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But yeah, I have no idea what's going on.
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edit: Driver is updating, it'll probably fix itself.
Osayidan wrote on 2013-12-26 02:14

It's something laptop makers keep on trying to do to save battery, they intend for the nvidia to kick in when you're doing graphic intensive stuff (and usually are plugged into a power source), while the intel is used the rest of the time.
Good in theory, pain in the ass in reality.
99% of the time it's a driver/configuration issue.
Yoorah wrote on 2013-12-26 05:45

Ignore the warning, just like I said in another thread not long ago.

The warning happens because the game detects only the primary graphics card (which is integrated Intel), even if the system can switch processing to the NVIDIA GPU. And even if it doesn't, the Intel 4600 will be almost just as good and will be compatible with any new game (just runs it a bit slower).

Laptops having two GPUs like that works pretty well in reality, actually. Most of the time, anyway. Look up NVIDIA Optimus--it's what the feature is called.