HP Omen; Gaming Laptop; How do I enable my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 M graphics card?

[Toby123456789]

HP Omen; Gaming Laptop;

How do I enable my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 M graphics card?  

6 months ago I bought an HP Omen and it said it has an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 M graphics card.  But when I play games it's not very fast so when I went into my display settings it's said I was using an Intel 530.  When I went into display adapters it says I have both grahics cards so I want to know how to enable my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 M instead of the  Intel 530.  Thank you for the help!  

[Gorghino · Accepted solution]

Did you try to use NVIDIA control panel or NVIDIA GeForce Experience? I use to set the correct graphic card there.

[Riddle_Decipher]

@Toby123456789

Welcome to the HP Forums 🙂
I would like to take a moment and thank you for using this forum, it is a great place to find answers.

As I understand you want to know how to enable my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 M graphics card,

Notebook computers with a switchable graphics feature have two graphics adapter chipsets - a low power, integrated chipset and a high performance, discrete chipset. Although the exact chipsets on your computer varies depending on model; the low power chipset is usually manufactured by Intel or AMD and the high performance chipset is usually manufactured by ATI Mobility Radeon or AMD.

HP computers with switchable graphics provide the following benefits to mobile computing:

• When handling less demanding applications, the computer conserves power for longer battery life.

• When using graphics-intense applications such as games, the discrete graphics processor enables higher performance.

• Click here for the overview and details.

For more details on how to make necessary changes on Switchable Graphics on Notebooks Configured with Intel and ATI GPUs: Click here

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[Toby123456789]

Thanks for the help! Now my computer is running all my games at 60 - 200 fps!

[Riddle_Decipher]

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[Glenn-1979]

What did you do? i have the same problem

[Gorghino]

Go into your Windows taskbar (bottom-right), Right click on NVIDIA settings > NVIDIA control panel.

Then go to "Manage 3D Settings" then select "Program settings" tab.
Add your application/game on the list (or add it manually selecting the exe file) and then select "NVIDIA processor".

Apply and exit.