Optimus not using Nvidia gpu fully

[Femb0t]

I have a Gigabyte Aero 15x laptop with a i7 8750H and a GTX 1070 Max Q. In game I've noticed recently my framerate drops to ~30fps after I drop the resolution to 720p. Before I was able to hit ~120+ fps at 1080p. I checked task manager and it shows near 100% utilization of the intel graphics and barely 10-20% of the 1070. I tried reinstalling the drivers (with and without ddu) and also set the graphics card in nvidia control panel to the high performance 1070 both globally and specifically for the games I play and now I'm getting ~60fps at 1080p when before I got closer to double. Resource monitors show the intel graphics still has high utilization and the nvidia gpu having ~50% utilization. Any ideas on what might be causing this?

[Turtle Rig]

3 hours ago, Femb0t said:

I have a Gigabyte Aero 15x laptop with a i7 8750H and a GTX 1070 Max Q. In game I've noticed recently my framerate drops to ~30fps after I drop the resolution to 720p. Before I was able to hit ~120+ fps at 1080p. I checked task manager and it shows near 100% utilization of the intel graphics and barely 10-20% of the 1070. I tried reinstalling the drivers (with and without ddu) and also set the graphics card in nvidia control panel to the high performance 1070 both globally and specifically for the games I play and now I'm getting ~60fps at 1080p when before I got closer to double. Resource monitors show the intel graphics still has high utilization and the nvidia gpu having ~50% utilization. Any ideas on what might be causing this?

Well firstly you must disable the integrated graphics.  Then make sure vsync is OFF and for the heck of it try booting into safe mode and run DDU "Display Driver Uninstaller" and clean and restart then your up in normal mode and install latest WHQL drivers and let us know.

[Femb0t]

Since my laptop has optimus technology I don't want to disable the igpu and lose my battery life. vsync was always off on my tests and I tried using ddu in safe mode and I am still getting the same issue after reinstalling nvidia's drivers. (Sorry for the late reply, I never got an email from this thread from the response)