How to Force an App or Game to Use Discrete Graphics on Microsoft Surface Book?
In this tip, we will show you how to force an app or a game on your Surface Book with dGPU to always run with integrated or discrete graphics.
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How to set graphics performance for an app or game on Microsoft Surface Book?
In Windows 10, you can now easily force an app or a game on your Surface Book to use integrated or discrete graphics without the help of the NVIDIA control panel. To do so:
- Go to Start > Settings.
First, you need to access Windows Settings by going to Start and click the Gear icon (or by using Win + I shortcut key).
- Go to System.
In Windows Settings, select “System“.
- Go to Display > Graphics settings.
On the Display tab, scroll down until you can see a link to the Graphics settings.
- Choose an App Type.
There are two app and game types available on Windows 10, Desktop app and Microsoft Store app.
- Choose Microsoft Store app.
In this case, we chose the Microsoft Store app as the game that we want to run on discrete graphics is installed from the Microsoft Store.
- Click Select an app.
It will show a list of installed Microsoft Store app.
- Select an app or game.
Select an app you want to set a graphics preference. In this case, we choose a game called “Microsoft Solitaire Collection”.
- Click the Options button.
- Choose the High performance.
Now pick your preferred graphics option you want the app to run with.
- Now the preferred graphics is set.
From now on, the app or game you added to the graphics performance preference list will always run with the predefined graphics you’ve set.
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