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Hi, i have a Laptop "Acer Nitro 5 r9 rtx 3070 an515-45", it has integrated GPU(AMD Radeon Graphics) as well as dedicated GPU(RTX3070). can we switch the integrated GPU to power the external monitor connected through HDMI rather than HDMI is powered by dedicated GPU.

I am wondering if my intagrated GPU should remain off for slightly better thermals. My main goal is keep my laptop fanspeed as LOW as possible most of the time, I've done literally zero gaming on the machine because the graphics are about the same as my PlayStation 4 anyway.

Hi all. So I got a Zenbook pro duo UX581GV (1.5 year old) with an RTX2060 and an Intel UHD 630 and Iv been losing my mind trying to figure first if Im not imagining the constant micro stutters on every video and then trying to troubleshoot them. Its micro stutters everywhere, nothing helps, and I get it when connecting to an exterior monitor through every way possible, to different extents. I tried connecting it through HDMI so its connected straight to the 2060. I tried it through the USB C port with a hub and HDMI. I tried connecting a powered hub via USB 3, a Dell dock with DisplayLink port via HDMI and DP. Every one of these has different degrees of stutter in different apps, if its working okay on youtube then Netflix app stutters more, if its working well in Netflix on a different port, its stuttering with a different app. My 4 years old surface pro plays two videos simultaneously smoother than this thing that's brand new and supposed to be a beast. And, I, of course, updated drivers updated windows, reset windows, upgraded to windows 11, tried with or without GPU acceleration in windows graphic settings and chromes/edge settings. I learned after a while that its a long-standing issue that was reported in Nvidia forums 4 plus years ago, apparently Laptops with both Nvidia card and the Intel GPU unit together has this "small" "quirk" where if you connect an external display you get stutter city in videos and mouse movement and window dragging etc.. After reading that thread I tried more things, I tried various advanced power options, disabling fast reboot, disabling and enabling the intel 630 adapter, shutting down DWM.exe. A good permanent option people found is disabling the intel adapter from bios as a workaround, but that isn't an option for me with the Duo laptop because of that 2nd monitor that is built-in. I threw everything suggested at this problem, something helped, Im not sure what, but its somewhat better than before (or maybe that's a placebo effect.. IDK.. I'm losing it), but its definitely still an issue. It is baffling to me how premium products that cost us thousands of dollars can have an issue as major as this just ignored for years. I also suspect it this has something to do with why I don't use my laptop set on its native 4k res, because I experienced all those issues on day 1 just from the fact that I already have an external monitor permanently connected. I wish someone in the LTT crew catch a glimpse of this and see its history of a 5 year long ass thread: Laptop 1070 External Monitor Stutter | NVIDIA GeForce Forums and maybe do a video or something about this, I never knew this can be a thing in laptops, and its a basic functionality so people should know. And also that might put some pressure on idk.. MS? Nvidia? Intel? to do something.

Hi all! So I just finished building my PC and I'm trying to have two monitor setup on it. Since the motherboard has DP and HDMI with R5 5600g there shouldn't be any issues. However, my screen that is connected with DP works fine, but the other which is connected with HDMI to DVI adapter (older monitor, no HDMI) doesn't show any image, nor it is recognized in device manager. I have installed latest drivers for pretty much everything. Any help would be much apreceated! My config is: Ryzen 5 5600g MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus 16GB RAM 3733MHz ... bunch of storage....

During gaming, my brand new laptop just randomly decides to swtich from my RTX 3050 to an intel integrated gpu, which causes the framerate to drop significantly. The dedicated card's usage drops to 20%, while the integrated one jumps to 90% for a minute or so. It makes some games unplayable. Any fixes?

Hello guys, I'm not much of a gamer but while I was playing BF2042 since it was beta, I noticed that the CPU has always +80% usage while GPU is ~10% max. here is a screenshot for you. https://imgur.com/0LN12Hy My integrated GPU works more than the actual GPU. I tried following some tutorials video and like this one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B8mFY-Ud0Y I set BF2042 with my GPU as preferred and did some other minor tweaks in the NVidia control panel but nothing seems to work. I have to say that my FPS are decent: ~60 FPS if not over. But the point is that the CPU goes over the recommended temperature and I'm quite worried in the long term performance. I tried disabling the integrated GPU in BIOS but I can't do that since there are no such options, so I did the most idiot thing... I tried disabling it by device manager but it doesn't seem to bother my GPU. Is it angry at something? Why is it always sulking like this? What have I done to you? oh dear GTX 1660 TI

Previously I used VGA integrated from my AMD Ryzen 3 2200G processor, then I just bought an AMD RX 550 VGA. I have installed AMD RX 550 on my motherboard, and have updated the driver. then i want to try to use vga amd rx 550 in valorant game, but the GPU process is only idle 0% no change at all. are there any additional settings to make the RX 550 usable for gaming/rendering or something else?

Hey people! So I am planning to buy an AMD 4650G APU. It is fairly tricky to plan anything with it, because it is not listed in any (or I didn't find any) pc building sites. My logic is: I can't find any decent graphics card for the price difference between the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 and the AMD Ryzen 5 4650G. The 2 processors are really similar to each other, and the 4650G with integrated graphics on it (in cae you don't know this model), costs 80 USD more. For that price, I am fairly positive, I can't find any dedicated GPU. So for the next year or so, til the GPU prices go down, I am planning to use the AMD 4650G, and then upgrade. If you find anything flawed with my logic, I gladly accept any counterarguments. But here is the catch. The Ryzen 5 3600 has 32MB l3 cache on it, while the Ryzen 5 4650g only has 8MB. Do you guys think, it is a huge issue? Also if you know any other differences, pls let me know! Thanks!

I am trying to choose a Laptop for Myself and the Hardest part comes when trying to compare the performance of the Integrated graphics within the Processor and what parameters should I choose to compare them.... I am trying to find the better among various naming given such as "INTEL IRIS XE graphics, Intel UHD graphics, and Radeon graphics"...(I was looking for Laptops below 670 USD/ 50,000 INR/570 EUR) 1. WHAT ARE THE VALUES I SHOULD LOOK TO COMPARE...? 2. WHERE TO LOOK UP FOR QUALITY COMPARISON ON PERFORMACE BETWEEN THESE?

Greetings community, I'm kinda new here and also a newbie in the "PC" world, so pls hear me out. I'm using a laptop, MSI Alpha 15 A3DDK, released on Q4 2019 I think. Next or maybe next NEXT month I wanna upgrade my RAM for a dual channel, but for the time being, I'm trying to reduce my RAM usage for my integrated GPU as I'm using my laptop always on plug so my discrete could perform a lil bit better, so I don't really care about power saving. CPU on my laptop is AMD Ryzen 7 3750H, with Radeon RX Vega 10, consuming 2,1 gigs of RAM with 8 gigs onboard RAM 2666 MHz single channel but read as 2400 MHz (is it fine? why only 2400?) so the available RAM is only 5,9 gigs. Two days ago, I found a tips on the net how to reduce RAM usage from BIOS on the iGPU and tried it. I could reduce iGPU RAM usage as small as 64 MB only and available RAM for 7,9 gigs, and after save and reset, I think there is no problem for a while while using it for gaming or working on light 3d modeling. Then I got greedy and think, how if I disable the iGPU, would the performance goin kinda crazy? And as I tried, my greedy ass got whooped. After save and reset, BAM, the display goin black while the keyboard backlight still lighting up. Hard restart, nothing. Hard restart but make it 15x, still NOTHING. Goosebumps creeping on my neck. Head kinda felt spinning. Hands trembling and armpits got sweaty. "Fck! My only device that I'm using to work and gaming is dead! I fcked up big time!" Confused as fck, of course the net is the first one that I'm reachin to. Net says, just remove the CMOS battery to factory reset. I think ah I'm saved. But then I wonder, how if the CMOS battery under the set inside and I cant find it? Sh*t goin crazy in my head. Then I say fck it, give it to the pro. Driving to my friend's go-to regular pc mechanic. Mechanic says came back tomorrow. Okay, I think I'm saved. Next day, I picked up my laptop. Checking RAM on board, back to 5,9 gigs. Damn! All that crazy stuff just for NOTHIN! So, long story short, I'm still not satisfied. I wanna change it again to 64 MB. But this time, I just wanna ask for input from y'all. Is it fine to change it that much? Or maybe I should tone it down to like 512 MB or 1 gigs only? Also is my 2666 MHz RAM read as 2400 MHz caused by the limitation of my CPU? If I'm gonna upgrade to dual channel, which one should I buy? 2666 or 2400? Thanks! Good day y'all!

I hope this method might work for someone who want to have multiple monitor setup but has limited no. of video output .i myself had this issue while setting up a Pc for one of my friend so follow this it might also work in your case Bootup your pc and go to BIOs and see there will be an option under video says" Multiple Display" tick yes then restart pc then again go to bios and check it should marked as checked . Now plug second monitor in to the motherboard VGA (My case I'm using the HDMI) And it wont turn up till you log in to windows . After login it start giving display on Both monitors then you can right click on desktop after login and go to display settings and setup the resolution … He is using one 1920x1080 and 1620x1050 and having Nvidia Quadro 600 and Mother Board is Dell OptiPlex 3010 .Hope it might help someone too.

Hi everyone Hoping someone can help me here. I got the AMD Ryzen7 Pro 4750G, with 32GB 3200MHz RAM (OC'd from 3000MHz), all runs fairly ok. I have it set to dynamic graphics (or whatever that setting is), it defaults me to 1280x720 at locked 30fps on a very low preset with short motion blur. The game is running on my adata nvme so there should be no bandwidth issues there. Temperatures do not exceed 60C, I am not sure if there is a limit set in the BIOS or not. I have tried this preset as it is, game runs fine while I am driving around, but the moment I go to start the first event of the game(the one after the opening seasons' race) it crashes. Farthest I have got is the race starting but crashing on the "GO!" screen. It crashes in a weird way also, sound stays on so I can hear cars, obviously not as they drive, but the screen goes black. Sometimes the screen will flash to a grey "static-like" screen and then go black. In both cases, the only way to get out is a restart of the system. This is the Steam version of the game All drivers and updates are present. Windows 10 Pro 20H2 with the most current KB5001330 and KB4023057 updates (15 April 2021). I only got the game on the 16th so not sure if it would run well without these updates or not. I have read around, there is no monitoring app or on-screen monitoring app like MSI afterburner running in the background. I have even cleared it from my Bitdefender antivirus, there are no other background apps running. I know my specs technically do not meet the requirements for the game, but I have seen videos of FH4 running on this APU with lesser specs in some cases. Also there was no option of a GPU with the current situation around the world. The system specs are: CPU: Ryzen 7 Pro 4750G (8c/16t) GPU: Integrated RAM: 32GB (4x8GB) Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 3000MHz (OC'd to 3200MHz) PSU: SuperFlower 550W 80+ Platinum NVME SSD: Adata Swordfish This system as it is cost approximately $1300, so a dGPU was simply not possible in my budget. For example: AMD Ryzen 7 4700G (Pro 4750G) Review (iGPU Gaming) - Forza Horizon 4 (1440p) and Gears 5 (1080p) - YouTube Now I know just looking at a videos does not give the full story, but I have seen it in multiple cases where 1080p on low is possible. ETA Prime(Youtube channel) has shown this on 2 or 3 of his 4750G builds. Also, I have not tried any other game yet, was soo excited to try and play FH4 at even 1080p low, but these crashes are ruining it for me. Can someone please help me with this, is it a RAM issue? Do I have to change the UMA buffer size in the BIOS so Forza does not freak out? Please, please, please any help will be really appreciated. Thank you

I am planing to build a new pc.But looking at some benchmarks even integrated graphics have come long way. Pc will be used mostly for programming but also gaming.Gamings as Valorant,League of legends,The forest and some minor games like that. I will for sure buy gpu in a year of two when prices are normalish. What is the tier list of some cpus i should look into? tnx

Budget (including currency): $700-$800 Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: School for now and AAA games in the future Other details: I currently have an old 600 watt PSU I'll use in the build for now and it'll likely be upgraded when we get the GPU. The system is for my brother to use for high school school for now and he would like to game on it once a GPU is available. I'm working on getting a hand-me-down GTX 970 from a friend. I was trying to get rgb parts where the price difference wasn't unreasonable and go with an all black build. I plugged in the prices I've found for these and accounted for rewards I have at Best Buy. that's why the current prices might be a little off from what you've seen. Any thoughts on what I've found so far? I was wondering if there were any improvements I could make within my budget, whether it be swapping out components or other suggestions! Also, the Motherboard and CPU were a combo at Best Buy. I realize I could have gone cheaper on the motherboard because the CPU isn't overclocking, but the discount offered for buying the combo no Best Buy was worth it to have the nicer motherboard. Wi-fi is a requirement for me. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/7g6Cht

Recently I factory reset my PC because of a problem and I had and it worked until I played a game and realized with task manager that it was using my integrate GPU for some reason instead of the Discrete GPU. I did some solutions like update discrete GPU through device manager and update drivers but they didn't work either.btw my Radeon RX560X is my discrete GPU and my AMD Radeon(TM) Vega 8 Graphics is my Integrated GPU.

Hey peps, gulping for some knowledge about this. So i still have my old computer that is i think 10 years old now and still going strong funny enough, just true love for it. I am planning to get a new setup but i rather wanna wait a while longer because i dont really have the need to use a PC, but i still keep going back to .. maybe i should at least get myself started for the main purpose to watch High res 4k content on my CX Oled and then just having a PC at home and not be bothering to bring home to Work-laptop when i want it or going to work from home. First time i watched from the PC since i got the CX and watching a 50GB Hi-res 4K content it was stuttering from time to time, small frames so it was still watchable but its still there and its probably fine just sending it to and external HDD and input it directly to the CX. What im thinkin of and would like to know if there are any drawbacks getting an AMD G-series instead of a proper GPU as well as if there are any significance benefits. Cuz if i go that route i could either get the Ryzen 3 3200G or Ryzen 5 3400G, maybe a cheap 450 board on a small formfactor case and then upgrading these parts later on the line.

Hi, [This is my first time asking for technical help in a forum. Please excuse my online etiquette ] [Before you stop reading midway, I have sufficient reasons to believe why it is not a hardware issue. I explained the reasons below] The Problem I have been using an Asus X556UB Laptop (i5 6200u, 940mx, 8GB Ram) for the last 5 years. About 2 years ago, I started having random shutdowns & after thorough scrutiny, I figured out it has something to do with the iGPU (Intel HD 520). Laptop runs fine if I have my iGPU disabled/uninstalled in device manager. Laptop instantly shuts down if I enable it (and fails to boot to windows if I have it enabled from safe mode). The problem is that the laptop doesn't have any bios settings to disable iGPU/switch display output to dGPU. Thus, applications which by default use iGPU doesn't run. I also can't change the settings to run "most of those" apps on dGPU as Nvidia control panel says that no display is connected to the dGPU & doesn't show any settings to choose default GPU. The processor itself runs fine. Cooling works fine and gets up to 90 Degrees (C) for the processor. After trying out multiple combinations of drivers, my final setup is: disabled iGPU, uninstalled Intel Thermal Management Drivers (see screenshot below) (the "other devices" showed up after I uninstalled Intel Dynamic Thermal Management Framework & Intel Management Engine Component) & now some games run absolutely fine with the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter + Nvidia 940Mx combo. For eg: I ran NFS Underground 2 on very high settings at native resolution at around 80fps. PCSX2 games also runs fine (Although if I remember correctly it wasn't like this always. NFS Pro Street with the same combo would get 5-8fps, but that could be because I failed to choose dGPU to run the app). What I've tried so far (in no sequential order) (apart from countless google searches regarding the issue) 1. Updated Bios> Downgraded Bios> Updated Bios again 2. Fresh Installation of windows [currently on latest version - December 2020] multiple times. 3. Installed oldest version of drivers from ASUS's website. 4. Installed latest version of drivers from ASUS's website. 5. Installed latest version of drivers from respective component manufacturers' website* 6. Disassembled laptop > checked cooling > repasted CPU & GPU countless times 7. Bought new power adapter (65w) 8. Used intel XTU to underclock CPU + iGPU 9. Ran without battery 10. Maybe more things I don't remember *Latest version of drivers changed quite a few times over the last two years. Tried at least 4 "latest drivers". After two years of missing out on pc gaming (specially during the pandemic), I finally decided that I should get help. Tbh, I only as of posting this thread saw that underground 2 is playable, so that's a relief (now I can play at least some games xD). The Ask I still couldn't figure out what the problem is. Maybe driver issue, maybe partial CPU damage. I don't think it is a cooling issue as I don't think I ever saw temperature go above 90 degrees. Also laptop shuts down even without any load. It'd be a peace of mind if I could get a definite answer/solution to the problem. Thank you! P.S: I'll update the original post with more info as it arises. More info 1. Laptop iGPU used to occasionally work for 10-15 minutes to even hours. Would return to status quo (shutdown) after restarting computer. I couldn't figure out why it'd work, when it worked.

Lately my 4-year-old gtx 1060 from kfa2 has become unbearably loud to the point that I am distracted when studying. I am guessing that its up to a hardware issue because the fan speed is misreported in msi afterburner and the manual fan speed adjustment does not work. The temps are also fine and there is little to no dust in the fans. Now my solution is to remove the dedicated gpu before studying and installing it before I game. Its pretty cumbersome, but just unplugging the power from the gpu and plugging the monitor into the motherboard leads to no image when starting. Is there a faster way to disable the dedicated gpu? I know this is just a temporary solution, but I do not have to money to buy a shiny new gpu. I’m using windows 10. Specs: Intel i5 7600k Gigabyte B250-HD3P Kfa2 gtx 1060 Corsair cx500 Powersupply 16 gb patriot viper ram two 128 gb ssd 1 tb hdd

So I wanna know if I can use Integrated GPU on my second monitor and my GPU on first. If Yes then how can I ?

Been wanting to ask this question for quite a while now... I found out that for some reason, I would still have pretty much the exact same performance as with or without the graphics drivers installed... no rendering issues, no framerate fluctuations, nothing. Even graphically intensive games still run and show identical performance metrics. Yes, I did use DDU to properly uninstall my drivers (going to safe mode and everything), so I should just be running on Window's base drivers. Am I missing something or does the Radeon drivers currently just don't really provide much or at all any benefits compared to just Windows base drivers? P.S: No this topic is not a troubleshoot

Situation: I have a decently powerful laptop, an XPS 15 9510, i9-11900H, with a 3050ti dedicated GPU running windows 10 pro. Recently I updated my graphics drivers and that's when I noticed the problem. I also updated my system with the newest patches. I did not have this issue until now. games that have run smoothly and quickly in the past now stutter and lag. Problem: It seems that the laptop switches from my dedicated GPU to the integrated GPU after a certain amount of time running different applications. I've noticed this through significant performance drops in various games after about a minute of playing, and through the performance logs in Task Manager, where a spike in the iGPU usage corresponds with a drop in the dGPU usage (you can see it in the graph on the sidebar). The first screenshot is in a graphically intensive game, the second one less so. I have tried setting the graphics settings per app to "high performance" in settings I have tried using the NVIDIA control panel to set the overall preference to the 3050ti I have tried using the NVIDIA control panel to set the per-app preference to the 3050ti the problem has persisted I did find another thread describing the same issue from a few years back, though I did not see mentioned any way to fix the issue: At this point if I can't find a fix here, I plan on looking into disabling my iGPU to see if that fixes anything. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Edit: I Just tried some other games, TF2 doesn't seem to be using the 3050ti at all, despite having been set to do so in all the systems mentioned above, and is having major black screen flashing issues the entire time. the "graphically intensive game" I eluded to before somehow performs even worse now? using even less of the 3050ti before switching to the iGPU. The only games that run okay are the ones that can naturally run off the iGPU.

So, like the title says, some times my screen flashes green or just "turn off" like there's no signal, the audio stops, but whatever is running keeps running just fine, in fact, if i'm using a headphone the audio continues as normal. I dont see a pattern to what causes this, i was playing Tarkov just fine today and no problems, but just now the problem happened when i was watching a youtube video. This time tho, it wasn't a flash, it just got disconected, and wouldn't turn back on, the monitor was fine, just looked like it lost the PC's signal, i restarted the PC and now seems to be fine, no lasting problems. Don't have any screenshots or pictures, since i cant reproduce the problem. Not sure if this helps, but this monitor is old and i just spoted 2 dead pixels last month. I'm trying to sort out if this is a monitor problem or a GPU problem, i saw this behavior on a older GT420 i had on the same monitor, but never saw it flashing green, so not sure. Im using a Ryzen 5 4600G IGPU with 16gb ram and a A320 Motherboard Thanks for the help in advance.

I personally have always heard that a CPU with out integrated graphics can cause a problem for users when testing issues with discrete graphics cards failing or driver issues. Though on the other hand you really aren't going to be using the integrated GPU if you are buying a discrete GPU for something like gaming, streaming modeling software.

Hi there, i have a dell Inspiron 3580 with a dedicated amd radeon 520 (2Gb) gpu. I was thinking if there is any way to uninstall this GPU and use the pcie for a thunderbolt port in order to get thunderbolt connectivity. Thanks in advance

First of all this is my first post and I don't know if I'm posting this on the right section of the forum, so don't flame me too hard, also second language English. I have since I updated my drivers to Adrenaline 2020 version 20.2.0 or something similar I have been getting instability issues everytime I play Fortnite, sometimes it crashes and says "Video Drivers Error", other times it BSODs with the stop code "Memory Management" or "Reference by Pointer", and most times it shuts of completely out of nothing. I have tried going back to the old drivers, uninstalling and reinstalling the game, updating Windows, tweaking the BIOS and nothing seems to fix the problem, please help. Here is an example of the errors that have been happening: