[Support] Help me, brothers!
My PC never had the greatest specs, but it always worked out well enough for most games. Recently, however, I noticed that games were performing much worse than they used to. After some digging, I found out that my computer isn't using my graphics card when I run games. I tried using the NVIDIA Control Panel to rectify the situation, but even when I tell games to use my GTX 645, they don't. When I look in the graphics properties settings, it doesn't list my GPU at all. I hope you guys can give me some ideas as to what's going on!
TL;DR: My graphics card suddenly stopped being recognized by Windows. Please help me!
Posted Feb 9, 2016, 12:35 AM UTC
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Is this a laptop? If you've got a monitor plugged into a desktop graphics card it HAS to be using it.
No, it's a desktop.
So what is your monitor plugged into?
It's plugged into the GPU, but games aren't using the GPU. They're trying to use the integrated graphics instead.
EDIT: There is another spot for an HDMI cable. I'm trying that right now. Perhaps it got unplugged once and I re-plugged it into the wrong hole.
EDIT 2: I'm a silly fucking goose. That was the issue after all. Thanks, bud!
Haha! Glad to be of help!