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I have an Intel OMEN laptop. It has horrible battery life (about 2h45m) because it's a high-performance "gaming" laptop.

I have two different uses for my laptop that are a bit opposing. For school, I need the laptop to last through as many classes as possible on battery, only doing basic things like Google Docs in Chrome. For personal use, it stays plugged in and I want as much performance as possible. My laptop has an integrated Intel GPU and a GTX 1650.

When my laptop is on battery, I want it to use the integrated GPU to save power. When it's plugged in, I want it to use the dedicated GPU for maximum performance.

I've tried messing with settings in the NVIDIA control panel, but it doesn't seem to work. I've also tried messing with my power plan but that didn't seem to affect it either. Windows GPU settings don't appear to have an option to do what I want. It seems to mostly prefer my integrated GPU but it does seem to use the dedicated GPU for a couple games.

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  • I think, overall, your question is on-topic here, but software recommendation requests are off-topic here. To prevent your good question from being closed, you may want to edit the last sentence. As a moderator of the Software Recommendations SE, I'm fine if you post a similar question on Software Recommendations SE (softwarerecs.stackexchange.com), as long as you edit the question on that SE to specifically ask for software recommendations.
    – End Antisemitic Hate
    Commented Nov 5, 2023 at 21:49
  • Also, you may want to search for duplicates here, as I know I've read some similar questions in the past (although they may not be duplicates).
    – End Antisemitic Hate
    Commented Nov 5, 2023 at 21:50
  • When the GTX 1650 is used, how do you know? Do the fans suddenly spin up?
    – End Antisemitic Hate
    Commented Nov 5, 2023 at 21:52
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    Does this answer help you? superuser.com/a/1186518/380110
    – End Antisemitic Hate
    Commented Nov 5, 2023 at 21:53
  • And I'd assume at least on battery it's already doing what you want. Of course, the default on demand mode is software triggered so as long as you don't use graphically demanding software (you say you don't) it should work with the iGPU Intel always.
    – ChanganAuto
    Commented Nov 5, 2023 at 21:56

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Per our chat, I recommended the following, and it sounded like it worked:

  1. Open the NVIDIA Control Panel
  2. Go to Manage 3D Settings > Preferred Graphics Processor
  3. Select High-performance NVIDIA processor

NVIDIA Control Panel

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    I saw that in Dell's documentation too, but it doesn't work. Windows still reports my Internal Display to be using the Intel(R) UHD Graphics.
    – Tolga
    Commented Dec 30, 2023 at 23:22
  • @Tolga Is it possible that Windows is incorrectly reporting, as it is a separate Nvidia control panel in which the setting is applied?
    – End Antisemitic Hate
    Commented Dec 31, 2023 at 4:32

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