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Hey so i guess the title says it all i got this lenovo ideapad 5 pro 14inch with an 8845hs and an rtx 3050 6Gb but for some reason when i check the nvidia control panel most of the feature are not there i've tried updating drivers and nothing changed anyway to fix this

 

Edit: mydriver version is 572.16 geforce game ready driver released on thursday january 30th 2025

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Control panel is obsolete. Everything has been moved into the new Nvidia app. 

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7 minutes ago, AlexStarr said:

Hey so i guess the title says it all i got this lenovo ideapad 5 pro 14inch with an 8845hs and an rtx 3050 6Gb but for some reason when i check the nvidia control panel most of the feature are not there i've tried updating drivers and nothing changed anyway to fix this

 

Edit: mydriver version is 572.16 geforce game ready driver released on thursday january 30th 2025

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Nvidia Control Panel works differently when the main display on a device like a laptop is connected to the iGPU.

 

If you hook up an external display, it might be wired to the Nvidia dGPU, which will enable the rest of the features. Every device is different though in what ports it wires to what GPU.

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4 minutes ago, Agall said:

Nvidia Control Panel works differently when the main display on a device like a laptop is connected to the iGPU.

 

If you hook up an external display, it might be wired to the Nvidia dGPU, which will enable the rest of the features. Every device is different though in what ports it wires to what GPU.

Ok i see that my main display is connected to 780m but i wanna make it the rtx 3050 is there anyway of it

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8 minutes ago, AlexStarr said:

Ok i see that my main display is connected to 780m but i wanna make it the rtx 3050 is there anyway of it

Nope, not without significant hardware modification of the device.

 

Higher end laptops of the last few generations accomplish this with a MUX, which is a hardware switch between the iGPU and dGPU for the main display. Most of the time, gaming laptops without a MUX have the internal display wired only to the iGPU so that the dGPU can be turned off for power consumption aka Nvidia Optimus.

 

The only laptop I've seen that deviates from this is a early 75Hz (overclocked to 100Hz) G-sync enabled ROG 17.3" laptop I had back in 2016 that had the GTX 970M wired to the internal display. Still have that laptop 🙂 

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