Hey all, about a month ago I bought an Asus Republic of Gamers laptop, namely the G56JR model. I've installed windows 8.1 on it, since Asus did not have any kind of drivers for windows 7. I've installed the normal drivers such as the hotkey, sound drivers etc including the nvidia driver and geforce experience interface. In order to test the laptop in gaming, I've installed Borderlands 2 and Saints Row 4 ( I'll install others in the near future ). When I'm playing a game however, I notice that the graphics are always on low, and even on low settings the laptop kinda struggles to run it smoothly.
I've reached the conclusion that the laptop is using the integrated CPU graphics and not the dedicated GTX 760m graphics. This is where my problems start. I've tried forcing the laptop to use the dedicated graphics from nvidia control panel, but the second I exit the panel and enter a game, it switches itself back to integrated graphics. I've tried disabling the CPU graphic unit from device manager but it did not work, the laptop was still using that one. Also I've unistalled and reinstalled all drivers. It's still changing to integrated.
Also I've noticed something that I think it's kinda wrong. I cannot upgrade the drivers to 337.88 but only to the beta drivers 340.43, the only nvidia drivers working before this beta one being the 332.33 I've downloaded from Asus's website. Anyway, I've installed the 340.43 beta driver and my games are still not using the dedicated GPU.
Do you guys have any solutions for this problem?
Here are the specs, but I think you already know them:
CPU: I7 4700HQ
GPU: Nvidia GTX 760m
RAM: 8 GB RAM
HDD: 500 gb space
OS: Windows 8.1 FPP 64 bit
Any help is appreciated 🙂
