Wrong graphics card

[Coscor_NPL]

Hi all

I have a 'Dell Alienware 17R3' (Laptop, win10, Intel core i7 6820, 16GB ddr4 ram, Geforce GTX980m 8GB ddr5 ram)

A good and well all round CAD/CAM laptop

The problem is that it seems like Fusion picks my 'intel graphics card' to use in fusion

When I dig deeper into it, it seems like it uses that (useless) graphics card also in other areas of windows (for my screen as seen in one of the pictures?)

I don't want to use this intel graphics, since it's only there for less power consumption, I guess witout really 'that much' knowlage about it

Does anyone know how to make windows use my Geforce graphics only? or at least use it in fusion?

or does anyone know why there's a intel graphics card in the first place? or if it is needed?

Many thanks for any reply! (I tried disable all stuff in fusion, it all works well, except with assemblies get large... hence why i started to dig into it in the first place, the PC should be able to handle a lot)

[James.Youmatz · Accepted solution]

Hi @Coscor_NPL,

I'll have to look more into it, but there are a few things that you can do! On your desktop, if you right-click the Fusion 360 desktop icon, do you have an option to select "Run with Graphics Processor"? Also, I believe, with Nvidia within the NVidia Control Panel you can choose which programs will use the NVidia card. Are you able to select Fusion 360 from this list?

In the meantime, I will do some more research, but check out this link here as well. This may be able to help.

Thanks,

[Coscor_NPL]

Hi @James.Youmatz

Actually this looked liked it worked... at least it shows the right graphics card now! great! thanks... wow, that was simple 🙂 looks like I can apply this 'fix' to many programs!

[PslWooden]

Hi,

I'm having the same issue. Fusion 360 uses Intel HD Graphics 520 integrated card while it should use AMD Firepro w4190m. I have updated AMD's driver and done all things listed in here: 

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-f...