Windows 10: Any way to change in register which GPU is used for Energy saving?

I have my primary monitor connected to my RX 5700, and another connected to the video output of my Ryzen 5700G, however, Windows seems to prefer using the 5700 for everything, and in Graphic Settings I have this see screenshotAs you can see, both power plans use the 5700, I can choose a specific GPU for a specific app, but it has to be done app by app and doesn't always work!What I want is :-Have the default GPU being used as AMD Radeon Graphics the "igpu" of my Ryzen-Have AMD Radeon Graphics being used as the Energy Saver GPU

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Is there a way to force a program to use a secondary GPU?

I have 2 GPU's (Nvidia GTX 970 and 1080) and I want to force a program to use the 1080 for certain programs/games. Going to Settings>System>Display>Graphics Settings should give me the option to switch GPU's. Unfortunately it does not list both of my GPU's
nor does it allow me to change to another one, only the default GPU is chosen (the 970). This is a desktop computer and I have tried the Nvidia control panel and UEFI settings without much luck. If I tried selecting a program to run on my 1080 (through the
Nvidia control panel), it would still run it on the 970. I have tried switching the GPU's around with not much luck there either. If I can suggest to Microsoft the option in the Graphics Settings to list both GPU's for selection, that would be great. Otherwise
I don't know what to do. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you for your time.

 

Strange pc energy saving behavior

Hi everyone,

I state that I have always had problems understanding how the energy saving of my Asus laptop works. First of all, I don't understand how energy profiles work and I can't use monitoring tools.

I start from a concrete example:

I'm trying to open a password protected rar archive. I tried various software but then I came across cRARk and its commercial version "parallel password recovery" (PPR) because they are the fastest I have found.

I run cRARk on one of my two GPUs and the demo version of PPR on the CPU using all 4 cores I have. At the same time

To monitor everything I rely on the task manager, "resource monitoring" and GPU-Z.

To change the energy profiles I use the "Windows portable PC center"

The problems are these:

1) The task manager does not report cRARk's GPU usage. So I use GPU-Z.

2) If I select the "Balanced" profile and move the indicator that appears in the panel from "maximum battery life" to "maximum performance" (which is the maximum), GPU-Z brings me the GPU usage back to 90-95 % with (425/933 Mhz GPU / Memory clock), ALWAYS!

So I use the "Energy Saving" profile if I want to reduce fan noise and power consumption during the night. (300/870 MHz)

3) Moving on to the CPU there is the big PROBLEM. If I use the "Balanced" profile in any position the CPU loads at 45% and the frequency is about 1 Ghz (40% from "resource monitoring"). Which is already strange.
If I use the "Energy Saving" profile, the CPU goes to a 65% load and the frequency to 1.6Ghz (66%).
If I use "high performance" it behaves like the "Balanced" profile.

4) My CPU should go beyond 3Ghz but that's another problem!

Francesco aka

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I wanted to add a question, perhaps this is more feasible:

Is it possible to set the processor frequency to its maximum continuously?

 

Is there a way to force a program to use a secondary GPU?

Hi Zeond1987,

Thank you for posting your question in the Microsoft Community.

Are you getting any error message?

If you have a multi-GPU system running Windows 10, you can now manually specify the preferred graphics processor an app should use for performance or to improve battery life.

In order to force an app to use a discrete GPU instead of the integrated one, or vice versa to provide better system performance or battery life, I suggest you to follow the below steps.

1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the System icon. Click on System.

2. Click on Display on the left side

3. Under “Multiple displays,” click the Advanced graphics settings link.

4. Select the kind of app you want to configured using the drop-down menu:

Classic app — these are your traditional Win32 desktop programs.

Universal app — these are those app available through the Microsoft Store.

5. If you select Classic app, you’ll need to click the Browse button to locate the “.exe” file to add the app. Otherwise, if you select the Universal app option, you’ll see a second drop-down menu to select the app.

6. Select the app you added from the list.

7. Click the Options button

8. Set the graphics preference you want to use:

System default — this is always the default setting, and Windows 10 decide which GPU to use automatically.

Power saving — runs the application on the GPU that uses the least power, which most of the time is your integrated graphics processor.

High performance — runs the application on the most capable GPU, which is most of the time an external or discrete graphics processor.

9. Click the Save button.

I also recommend you to update the GTX 1080 drivers from the manufacturer website, and
Check if that work.

Hope it helps,

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