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bbonator
3 years ago
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Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 - Unable to launch with dedicated graphics.

Hello all, hope you are doing fine.  I am trying to solve a recent issue I encountered when trying to play BF, on my newely aqcuired laptop. The problem is that even after customizing windows 11 gra...
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  • MrEnigma115's avatar
    MrEnigma115
    3 years ago

    Not sure if you found a solution but I have the same laptop as you and I fixed it by going into the bios and setting the integrated GPU's memory size from 4GB to 1GB and now the game starts with the nVidia GPU. Try it and let me know!

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EA_Barry
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3 years ago

@bbonator 

Open NVIDIA control panel, Manage 3D settings, Program settings tab, choose 2042 from the game selection, choose High Performance NVIDIA Processor, scroll all the way down and click Apply at the bottom right. 

Try playing at that point.

Thanks.

  • bbonator's avatar
    bbonator
    3 years ago

    Hello Barry! 

    thanks for the feedback. 

    I have tried managing both at operative system level and via Nvidia control panel, and had no luck so far. The game still chooses integrated graphics. I have also tried enabling/disabling hardware accelerated GPU scheduling, adding all EA related apps as exceptions to run on the dedicated graphics, and so on. This on both windows and nvidia control panel and still no luck 

    Only thing I was curious about was the fact that EADesktop could not be switched from integrated graphics to dedicated in Nvidia control panel, the option is grayed out 

    I have tried on other games and the way they switch graphics is when using windows to select the card, I will try downloading another EA game and see if it applies to it as well or if only BF encounters this problem and report back 

    I appreciate you taking the time to reply! 

    • bbonator's avatar
      bbonator
      3 years ago

      Ok, I went ahead and downloaded a bunch of games from EA, they all correctly pickup the dedicated graphics card when playing. Only 2042 is using integrated graphics. 

      This is a problem that I did not encounter before so I am guessing an update had something to do. I am now at a loss on what to do. 

      Do you know if there is an argument when launching the game or some sort of way of forcing the app to run on a specific GPU? 

      • MrEnigma115's avatar
        MrEnigma115
        3 years ago

        Not sure if you found a solution but I have the same laptop as you and I fixed it by going into the bios and setting the integrated GPU's memory size from 4GB to 1GB and now the game starts with the nVidia GPU. Try it and let me know!

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