[MC-77668] On Nvidia laptops, MC picks integrated graphics

Modern laptops let you run games on either intel graphics or the much more powerful nvidia GPU.

By default, the choice is set to "auto" in the Nvidia control panel, all games I've come across so far have correctly picked the discrete GPU except minecraft.

reproduce: load the game and hit F3, check gpu at top right

workaround: change the default in the nvidia control panel from "auto" to "high performance nvidia processor"

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MC-60371 Minecraft forces use of the integrated graphics card Resolved

Comments 6

Dlawso the Really Lucky Rabbit 2015-02-17T01:33:42Z

Dupe of MC-60371

kumasasa 2015-02-17T07:18:16Z

Leaving this open, not sure if bug or not.

kumasasa 2015-11-23T22:27:10Z

Is this still an issue in the current Minecraft Snapshot 15w47c or later? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

Andrea Stella 2015-11-24T16:33:01Z

I'm currently on a clean install of Windows 10, can't even get it to run. Crashes ~10 seconds after loading into a single player world.
I'm sorry but I don't have time to troubleshoot this any further...

Log http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=zPdaw3nP

kumasasa 2015-11-24T18:06:13Z

@unknown: This are broken Intel graphics card drivers, see MC-32606

user-f2760 2017-02-14T15:01:53Z

Ticket resolved as incomplete, because no answer in a reasonable amount of time (1+ year), if it still happens, please update the ticket.