Beamng tech demo is not detecting my primary graphics card.

It just wont detect my main nvidia card. I have tried selecting it in the graphics options but it comes up with null?
I click apply but tells me to restart beamng, even though i have, it still uses my intergrated card.
I have gone to the control panel and made beamng to use my nvidia card. but still says intel in game.
Even though it says intel, is it actually using my nvidia?
thanks.

 

Some specs on your PC would help. Go into your Bios and ensure your Nvidia card is set to main or primary rendering device. Also if your card/motherboard has Nvidia's "Optimus" technology try disabling it. Make sure you are running the latest drivers for your card. From your screenshot it definitely looks like Beam is using your IGPU.

 

Here are my quite old and outdated specs...

I have the latest drivers

ASUS N53SV
nvidia GeForce GT 540M 2GB - direct x11
Intel Core i7 2670QM
16GB Ram
Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
and i think thats all the main stuff

 

I had a feeling you were on a laptop, I used to have problems like this on my work laptop. In my case it was Optimus, allot of laptop hardware comes with it, its meant to switch between the IGPU and nvidia based on load to save power, but it just does not detect some things as games very well. You should see an option for it in your BIOS if you do have it on your machine. Also like I said, you should have an option to set your Nvidia as the primary device as well.

 

The way Nvidia Optimus works for using the NVidia Card is the information is rendered on the discrete GPU then the rendered frames sent back down the PCIe bus and inserted into the Frame Buffer of the Intel GPU to be displayed.

In a lot of cases, the NVidia GPU is not connected to the screen at all - so in BeamNG it will always say it can only see the Intel card.

This is by way of design, to combat the old switchable graphics where the screen would flicker, or even the computer had to be restarted to change them - as only one graphics adapter is presented to end user applications, the applications do not have to be aware of the dual-hardware.

The 540M is not that powerful so you may actually be running on it, just unaware. If you are unsure you can download the Optimus Test Tools to establish the status of your NVidia GPU.

If there is an option to turn Optimus off in the bios, this means that the NV GPU is connected to the screen through a multiplexor and the Intel card should vanish from eveywhere, however I don't recommend doing this as you will loose all the power saving benefits of Optimus in the first place for a tiny performance gain.

Hope this clears a few things up.

 

if you run BeamNG techdemo with your nvidia gpu in the nvidia control panel, it should work, in the version of beamng the tech demo is based off of, it will say your using your intel graphics, even though you arnt

 

Hi I have a problem with beamng drive and it is that when I get it I am using your intel gpu please choose another of your devices to improve performance and I have a pc hp core i7 2630 qm 2.0 ghz 4 cores 8 ram and intel hd 3000 but I have something amd 6600m and 6700m and tells me on the screen that I have 5093 mb of graphics is for my pc or for something else in options it puts me that everything is ok the intel intel hd 3000 as I changed help is a laptop

 

your only 4YEARS late. The last post was in 2013.