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I wanna do some testing on my iGPU but it's nearly impossible to force most applications to render on it because it seems my GTX 970 as the first GPU so it automatically uses that instead. i know if I remove my GPU it will automatically use the iGPU but I'd rather not have to do that everytime I wanna switch graphics adapters.

 

If i disable my dedicated GPU in device manager will it force the system to ignore it completely r shoudl i just remove it?

 

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I'd just take the GPU out of your system. Not this.

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I wanna do some testing on my iGPU but it's nearly impossible to force most applications to render on it because it seems my GTX 970 as the first GPU so it automatically uses that instead. i know if I remove my GPU it will automatically use the iGPU but I'd rather not have to do that everytime I wanna switch graphics adapters.

 

If i disable my dedicated GPU in device manager will it force the system to ignore it completely r shoudl i just remove it?

 

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remove it.

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