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Anonymous
10 years ago

Forcing Battlefront to use NVidia graphics

Hello, so I bought the game, despite the fact that my computer barely meets the minimum requirements, but I have an issue here.

My computer has two graphic cards: Intel integrated graphics (Intel HD Family) and a pretty good NVidia GeForce graphic card. Whenever I launch Battlefront, it always tries to use my integrated graphics instead of NVidia GeForce. I obviously can't even get to the main menu.

The error says: "Your system does not meet the minimum requirements for this game. Intel HD Graphics does not support DirectX 11, which is required."

My NVidia card does support dx11, the only problem is that I can't force Battlefront to use it.
I tried going to the NVidia control panel and setting the default graphic card for the program (Battlefront.exe) to my NVidia card, but nothing has changed.

I would really appreciate some help.
May the force be with you!

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    IMO, you have the two subjects inverted.  A normal Geforce has no trouble that way, nor does any kind of Radeon.  Only the nVIDIA mobile video fails that way, constantly, in so very many of EA's games.  That isn't at all solitary.  Those cheap, undependable Mickey Mouse toys fail in MANY games, nearly all the time.   I think that nVIDIA owes its customers a much better video product than they are providing. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    Umm... I have NVidia GeForce GT600 series... (don't know the exact number)

    Anyway, is there a solution to my problem?
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    If you had a proper game-playing computer, it would be stationary, not mobile, and the back of it would have two video ports, the right one, and the wrong one.  Plugging the display into the bad port would be very easy to undo, just swap it. 

    Until laptops have any standard for various classes, they cannot be used to test games on, and system requirements cannot try to accommodate them.  A Radeon mobile device is complete, unlike the cheap Optimus device from nVIDIA, which includes only a "back half", no front end. 

    You are stuck with digging through your drivers and graphics controls to take total control of all aspects, because the Optimus simply is too lazy and unreliable to do anything automatically in far too many games.  Here's a discussion: 

    https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/555317/where-is-the-quot-use-high-performance-gpu-quot-option-/

    P. S. The Geforce 610, 620, and 630 are ranked from god-awful on the bottom, through absolutely terrible in the middle, to "still not good enough" on the top at GT 630. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    So would buying a proper GPU (e.g. Radeon) help me,
    or do I have to buy a desktop computer (which is probably very expensive) with two video ports?

    Thank you for your feedback anyway!
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Laptops haven't had an upgrade option for the GPUs in quite a long time; at least five years now, and only Sager offered it for the final couple of years it was available.  Games-capable desktop and mini-tower PCs are a lot less expensive in two ways than laptops.  The initial cost is less, then the upgrade option gives them longer lives. 

    Factually, the "initial" video port seen on any stationary PC is only its Intel IGP, so from a gamers' point of view, it might as well not exist.  Relatively recent technical improvements allowed some size reductions to the computer cases, so that a gaming system need not take quite the amount of under-desk real estate as previously. 

    I will say that none of Dell's mini-towers provide adequate internal space for game-playing GPU hardware, save for their overpriced "Alienware" machines. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    @InfernoCaptures 

    Not having heard further, we hope your questions have been covered adequately. 

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