NVIDIA-AMD need help resolving issues.

[Slelsul]

So I have a laptop that has an   NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650   and a   AMD Ryzen 7 4800h with Radeon Graphics. Also this laptop had 32GB RAM.

This is in relation to gaming mostly because that is what this laptop is being used for.

How do I completely force the computer to ONLY use my 1650 whilst ignoring the intergrated graphics In an attempt to reduce conflicts and graphical glitching??
Is that a proper way to go about this and what else might I be missing??

My issue really is that I am having really bad graphics glitching and very severe FPS drops in this game which already has really bad optimization. My gripes about the game aside I have been told that there may be conflicts between the two brands and I have done a little digging of my own and it does check out. Well at least that conflicts of this nature exist.

Well aside from that I tried to see how removing just the Radeon drivers and software would effect the situation and in short my system melted down severely. Complete cluster fuck. It is beyond me why as I believed that my 1650 was what was handling the graphics so by my thinking removing the support for the integrated graphics should have down nothing other than remove these supposed conflicts while the computer functioned as it should.

To be clear as well I made sure that I only removed the software and drivers for Radeon and not Ryzen. Still I do not understand how such a useless pest caused my system to meltdown. Need as much help as I can get.

[Moonzy]

most laptop would run the internal screen off of the iGPU, which is the radeon graphics in your case, so disabling it would mess things up indeed

games are (ideally) rendered on the dGPU and passed to the iGPU to be displayed, but sometimes it doesnt work

 

have u tried tweaking in nvidia control panel?

[Slelsul]

I have indeed quite a few times. To be rather honest, controlling tech like this is new to me given I used to only ever have really bad stuff so in my attempt to be thorough that was one of the first things I tried. However there is not much here to tweak.

[Slelsul]

Well I do not understand a lot of this newer stuff to be honest so I did not even realize that there would be conflicts when I had the computer built.


EDIT:
I am in the process of replicating my issue in the game I made reference to. It is a very graphic heavy map and when it breaks my graphics it stays broke until it restarts. To be honest I am pursuing several different routes now to try to fix this issue. I do not even know what to make of it anymore. Conflicts being the issue is something I have sort of thrown at a wall to see if it sticks.

Edited October 25, 2021 by Slelsul

[porina]

Check if your laptop allows you to disable Radeon in bios. On mine it is called dynamic mode when it uses both, and discrete mode when only using nvidia. However this option might only appear it if it a newer implementation which can switch GPU output to panel. In older implementations the connection is only made to iGPU so that has to remain active at all times.

 

Otherwise, I'd go the other way around, make sure you have the latest drivers for both. Somewhere in Windows is a GPU performance preference option, which hopefully puts things on nvidia. IMO it was a step back when MS took over the setting control from nvidia as that worked better.

 

Based on the description I wonder if it is a GPU related problem or a game problem. Do you have problems running other games?

[Slelsul]

No I do not actually have problems in other games. Then again I suspected it to be a game issue from the start until a person insisted it was actually my laptop. Well only one other game comes to mind when in reference to graphics issues however that may be a game issue as well.

I will check the bios now. From what I remember however I do not believe it has that option but I will still check to be certain. I will also look into this GPU preference option. I will need to figure out where it is to start with I suppose and will work from there.

Well regardless I suppose the point would be to make sure and "fix" the issue even it it is a game issue or to generally make certain to prevent any would be conflicts. It will hopefully all work out the very least in doing if this is not a game issue as well.

EDIT:
The other games I play are a lot better taken care of as well. If that has any merit.

Edited October 25, 2021 by Slelsul

[Slelsul]

So as I remembered my bios is pretty limited and does not have that option at all. TBH I wonder if I could change my bios without losing any data but I never looked into that. I did find the GPU performance preference option you mentioned after a quick search. I never knew that could be used liked that. I sort of ignored it and left it as default and failed to go back to it. I forgot it existed before I could play around with it. I will see how that holds up in this game and try to stress it a bit to see if it breaks.

[Slelsul]

Still seems to be dropping frames a lot. I have not got it to fully break yet but that part was always random af. The stress test sort of shows no change.

[Slelsul]

After Stressing my GPU for hours using the game that gave me the issue and a stress test software I could not replicate the issue in full on my own. My GPU never got warmer then 52 through the entire ordeal and that was only after I introduced the stress test software. That said I really have little choice but to accept this as a game issue. That sort of pains me given they best help from these people was telling my to run a clean boot then just ignoring me..

I still would like some help setting up my Graphics to never have conflict in the future. After seeing the various case like mine that is actual NVIDIA and AMD conflicts I want to just be safe for the future. After all I may and up with a game or something that actually causes those conflicts in the future.

EDIT:
I got the frame drops but not the actually break.

Edited October 25, 2021 by Slelsul