How to disable Intel integrated graphic card and use the Nvidea dedicated graphic all the time?

[Bezzo]

Dear All,

I own an HP zbook studio G3 laptop. I want to switch to Nvidia graphic card permanently.  I have tried disabling integrated graphic card in device manager, uninstalling the driver and even enabling the nvidea graphic card in all the profiles in the 3D setting tap in Nvidia setting software. Non of them seems to work as the integrated graphic is always in action and simple games could not be run. I always keep in the power option on high-performance mode and the laptop is always plugged in. Should I manipulate the bios setup?

Thanks in advance,

Bezzo

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I have the Zbook 15 G3 non-studio version which does have a removable video card. I added the video card after purchase and found it only worked right if I went into the BIOS and set it to only use the nVidia card. However, since yours is switchable graphics I am not sure you have that option. Have you even looked at the BIOS? Tap esc as you power up and then F10

[Bezzo]

Thanks for your reply!

I finally disabled the onboard graphic card in BIOS setup. Now I am only using the dedicated NVidia graphic card which is not the most power efficient option but I tend to believe it is better than not having enough power when you need it.

Best regards,

Behzad