Windows chooses wrong Graphics Card driver

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Facts:

I have HP Envy dv6 7200t laptop which I purchased directly from HP.

In the speifications I requested a special graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M with 2 GB dedicated ram.

I am using Windows 7 64 bit in English.

Now I didn't have much use for such a graphic card until today - I installed a game and it pointed out my graphic card sucks and the game won't run smoothly on it - it said my graphic card is Intel HD Graphics 4000.

I checked the device manager and found out 2 graphic drivers - for both of the listed graphic cards.

both of them are up-to-date (I made sure about the second one from nvidia control panel, and even reinstalled it just incase)

Assumptions:

I am not much of a hardware expert but I assume I do have 2 graphic card - internal on the motherboard (intel) and external (GeForce) - feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

And if thats the case, somehow Windows chooses to use Intel instead of GeForce.

I also made sure of it by disabling the Intel HD Graphics 4000 from the Device Manager and my screen went black - I guess its safe to assume that indeed the intel driver is the one in use.

Question:

If so far I am making sense then perhaps my question is simple - how do I tell Windows to choose otherwise ?

And if I am mistaken, then probably I am in a deeper hole, what do I do?

Thanks!!

Alex

[stika]

I have the same issue though mine's with an AMD Radeon HD 7620G and an AMD Radeon 8770m 1GB respectively. So I'd appreciate any help as well

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi, Alex:

Both GPU's are soldered to the motherboard.  There are no graphics "cards" in any current HP consumer notebook.

Please read this guide for how to use switchable graphics with the Intel/Nvidia graphics setup.

http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03519217

For the AMD Radeon HD 7620G and an AMD Radeon 8770m, please read this guide for notebooks with dual AMD GPU's:

http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03048333

[stika]

Mmm... I'm not sure how the guide can help me? In my case I'm using Windows 7 and I just can't seem to get the AMD Radeon 8770m to work

[stika]

So I tried following your link, I had a few issues

- There are no new bios for this laptop (Hp Pavilion 15-2513p)

- Installed systems monitor, but no matter what I do the second GPU is ALWAYS at 0%

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Unfortunately, I don't know why that is, but it seems to be an issue I have seen posted before where the "weaker" AMD GPU is present, but the discrete AMD GPU cannot be found.