Adding BoS to Steam - GPU problem

[WildBlueYonder]

Hey guys,

 

I have a problem with running BoS via Steam, but since there are many techies here I hope there's someone on the forums who could help me out with the issue.

 

I play BoS on my Lenovo Y580 laptop which happens to have two GPUs - an integrated Intel card and GeForce GTX660M. For some reason every time I start the game by double-clicking on the executable file the game starts using the default graphics processor, which results in very low FPS and bad performance in general. To go around it I need to right-click on the .exe icon and then select 'Start with high performance graphics card' to make it work properly.

 

Now I've tried to add the game on Steam for convenience (I especially like the shift+tab function for in-game chat with friends), but the trouble is that every time I try to run it this way the game starts using the default GPU, which as you know by now is useless.

 

Is it possible to change the default GPU that Steam starts the game with? I would greatly appreciate any input.

 

Firefly

[WildBlueYonder]

Thank you, I'll try that.

[NastyDog]

Extrem_one is ride disable that 1

[Johnny_Red]

right click desktop, Nvidia control panel, manage 3d settings, global settings, prefered graphics processor.

Or

....manage 3d settings, program settings, add... brows to your .exe file

[WildBlueYonder]

Johnny_Red, your suggestion worked perfectly, thank you!

[Johnny_Red]

Johnny_Red, your suggestion worked perfectly, thank you!

you are welcome. You'll find it will default to integrated when your laptop is unplugged and using battery, to save power. You could play around with power setting to deal with that. I never use my laptop for gaming when on battery so I've never really played around with power settings. But it will switch back to the nvidia card when plugged back in, no need to reset it.

Edited April 13, 2014 by Johnny_Red