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Laptop Nvidia GPU RTX 3050 Ti not running on internal display, only running when screen is duplicated on external monitor.

Anonymous
2023-06-11T03:47:51+00:00

Hi,

I am currently having an issue where my RTX 3050 Ti GPU does not run when my laptop is not plugged into an external monitor. For some reason, all of my programs, processes, applications, etc. are only using the integrated graphics of the CPU (maybe not even that considering the laptop struggles with the most basic of games). I've tried updating the graphics card driver, reinstalling it, manually setting apps to use the correct GPU, and even reinstalling Windows from scratch, but nothing has seemed to work. I currently have the integrated graphics driver disabled in the device manager, but it is still being used. The weird thing is that the graphics card works completely normally when I plug the laptop into an external display and duplicate the screen. I currently have an ASUS TUF Dash F15 with the following specs:

Ram; 40 GB

CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11370H @ 3.30GHz 3.30 GHz

GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU

OS: Windows 10 Version 22H2

Any help would be appreciated.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-01-28T12:27:43+00:00

    I found out by sheer luck that for some reason my laptop screen was disabled in the device manager. I enabled it and everything is fine now. Maybe that's your issue as well. Hope that hepls.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-06-11T05:33:03+00:00

    Hello! My name is Mostafa; I will assist you today.

    I’m sorry that you are experiencing this issue.

    Check your NVIDIA Control Panel settings to ensure that your laptop is set to use the dedicated graphics card instead of the integrated one.

    Check if there is a BIOS update available for your laptop and install it if there is.

    Ensure you disabled the integrated graphics card in Device Manager. Note: Do not uninstall the driver; disable it.

    Note: It's expected that your laptop uses an integrated GPU while doing typical tasks on your laptop screen; it will switch to dedicated automatically when you start to do heavy tasks. If the external monitor uses a dedicated GPU because it's connected to the dedicated GPU directly.

    Please let me know if the above steps did not help. Thank you.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-25T13:30:22+00:00

    Hello there,

    I'm facing the same problem right now, please did you manage the problem somehow?

    Thanks for any advice

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-06-11T14:05:59+00:00

    I’m sorry to hear that none of the previous solutions worked.

    Ensure your laptop is set to “High Performance” mode in the Windows power settings. You can do this by right-clicking on the battery icon in the taskbar and selecting “Power Options”. Then, select “High Performance” as your power plan.

    Check if there is a BIOS update available for your laptop. If there is one, download and install it.

    Open Settings(Win+I) > Windows Update > Update history > Uninstall updates.

    If none of these solutions works, you may want to contact ASUS support for further assistance.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-06-11T13:19:45+00:00

    Thanks for the reply,

    But, I have already done all of those things and nothing has worked. My laptop refuses to use the GPU or the integrated graphics as I can't even run the first Fallout game (which came out in 1997) but works perfectly when running on an external display. I understand that not everything is going to use the GPU, but literally, 1 or 2 processes actually are.

    As you can see, Vampire Survivors (A game that recommends an Intel Pentium 4 Processor and 1 GB of Ram) takes a large percentage of whatever it's using to run the game, but only 4% of the total GPU availability is being used by the laptop.

    Any more help would be appreciated, Thanks.

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