WimO Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 I owe someone a HUGE THANK YOU but cannot remember who or which post. What's this all about? About a year ago I bought a new Alienware gaming laptop with some pretty decent specs. But when trying to play my favourite game, CMBN, the text was virtually unreadable and the graphics stuttered and rendered very slowly and incompletely. I had no idea what was happening and frustrated removed the game from my rig. Went back to playing it on my desktop which it did quite nicely with two NVideal GeForce 1080 cards in SLI. Then a few days back I stumbled on a post in this forum that advised players to make sure that the game was being directed to the VIDEO CARD and not the integrated video whatever. I though, "Huh??" Opened up my NVidea program and sure enough, there was a selection for letting the program decide automatically which to use or whether to force it to always use the video card. I selected video card and, nervous with anticipation, reinstalled CMBN and gave it a try. And what do you know? HooooRaaaah! It plays great. So now I am very very happy. And thank you, thank you, thank you to whomever posted that bit of advice. Wim (a.k.a. WimO, a.k.a. Kandu at FGM) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Simcoe Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 On 1/29/2022 at 9:51 AM, WimO said: I owe someone a HUGE THANK YOU but cannot remember who or which post. What's this all about? About a year ago I bought a new Alienware gaming laptop with some pretty decent specs. But when trying to play my favourite game, CMBN, the text was virtually unreadable and the graphics stuttered and rendered very slowly and incompletely. I had no idea what was happening and frustrated removed the game from my rig. Went back to playing it on my desktop which it did quite nicely with two NVideal GeForce 1080 cards in SLI. Then a few days back I stumbled on a post in this forum that advised players to make sure that the game was being directed to the VIDEO CARD and not the integrated video whatever. I though, "Huh??" Opened up my NVidea program and sure enough, there was a selection for letting the program decide automatically which to use or whether to force it to always use the video card. I selected video card and, nervous with anticipation, reinstalled CMBN and gave it a try. And what do you know? HooooRaaaah! It plays great. So now I am very very happy. And thank you, thank you, thank you to whomever posted that bit of advice. Wim (a.k.a. WimO, a.k.a. Kandu at FGM) Would you mind showing a screenshot? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFCElvis Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 49 minutes ago, Simcoe said: Would you mind showing a screenshot? A screenshot of how to set it? If that's what you're looking for, here ya go: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thewood1 Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Maybe better, a step by step process. https://www.techadvisor.com/how-to/pc-components/how-set-default-graphics-card-3612668/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simcoe Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 On 1/31/2022 at 9:53 AM, BFCElvis said: A screenshot of how to set it? If that's what you're looking for, here ya go: That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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