(12-26-2012, 09:57 PM)Diathorus Wrote: I do have the 310.70 drivers, also tried older drivers. Moreover, the global settings have no effect in regard to this matter. Do you have this problem as well? I updated my BIOS from v.1.20 to v.1.21, cleaning registry and removing nVidia drivers and installing them again. I wonder where this issue comes from, since other emulators don't have this problem. I noticed, though, that Dolphin is recognized as a program without a directory (removed registry entry, not working)Is there a physical switch on the laptop itself? Some machines have one of those (which I do for some reason) so try to see if there is one. There might be an option in the BIOS settings that controls the IGP and where it can be disabled, but as to why Dolphin doesn't allow you to switch is mind-boggling, even the most stubborn programs should allow you to force-enable the dedicated GPU with Optimus. Dolphin shouldn't be in the registry anyway, as it doesn't need to be. Is it an HD 3000 or HD 4000 that kicks in? Have you updated the IGP at all? Is the video back-end in the Dolphin GPU settings set to Direct3D 9 or Direct3D 11? If it's the latter, don't use it, as that won't use the nVidia GPU at all and is slower/unreliable; use DirectX 9 instead.
Custom Desktop -
CPU: Intel Core i5 3570 3.4 GHz to 3.8 GHz (Turbo Boost)
GPU: MSI nVidia GTX 660 2 GB GDDR5
RAM: 8192MB DDR3 SDRAM PC2 10600 1333MHz
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
HDD: 1 TB Western Digital 7200RPM HDD
CPU: Intel Core i5 3570 3.4 GHz to 3.8 GHz (Turbo Boost)
GPU: MSI nVidia GTX 660 2 GB GDDR5
RAM: 8192MB DDR3 SDRAM PC2 10600 1333MHz
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
HDD: 1 TB Western Digital 7200RPM HDD