MSI gs70 dedicated gpu

Hello everyone,
I have some trouble issues with my gpu. My system is all the time running on the nVidia gpu, instead of integrated intel. Even if I do not use software requiring high performance. The problem is, it eats my battery very fast. I had no problem like a week ago. When I turned on some game or something like that, nvidia just turned on. When I finished gaming, nVidia just went off and intel turned on. Today this does not seem to work. How did I detect the nvidia is on ? On my notebook the powerbutton glow white color while integrated gpu is on, and orange color while dedicated gpu is on. I tried everything. I set integrated intel as prefered gpu in nvidia control panel, but nothing happened. I tried to set intel as prefered in every single installed program, but it did not help. I do not know what to do. Please help.

Orange light is not bugged. Last time I have running integrated gpu, battery lastet for 4 to 5 hours. Now, it can last max for 2 hours. I know integrated gpu is on for sure. I bought this laptop without OS, so I did installation of windows on my own. Everything seem to work like for one week. Then I turned some game on, and when I turned game off, the dedicated gpu was still active. The problem is, it was active even after restarting of computer. It seemed to be set to activate at the startup. About mounth later I was forced to reinstall OS because of some other reason. I reinstalled windows and everything was working again, until I turned some game. Since then dedicated gpu is on all the time. I want to know if there exist some possible fix. Reinstalling system is not a solution since I cannot start any game, unless this problem occur. I really do not know how to fix this. Reinstalling everything is just temporary solution.

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These are notebooks, desktop replacements. They're not meant to be used as mobile desktop replacements. Without AC power, it will default to either a much reduced clockspeed on the GPU, or switch to the integrated GPU instead.
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Hello everyone,
A week ago i bought a msi gx70, it al works perfect except for one thing. When i start a game, the laptop is not using its dedicated gpu (amd hd 8970) but the gpu integrated in the processor ( amd 89650 )
I've tried a lot of stuff to fix this, like disabling the onboard gpu. When i disable the onboard gpu, the pc start using a microsoft basic render drive. I also tried to uninstalll both cards and reinstall them, not working. tried going into the bios, but there is now option for me to disable the onboard gpu there.
So please, i need help because it's getting pretty frustrating.
Thanks in advance!
grts

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OP, please let us know if those worked or not. So that we can eiher continue to help, or if it worked reply with what you did to fix the matter. So that any other users experiencing the same issue, reading this, will know what to do.
I will, but for the moment i can't :p
I gave it back to the shop to see if they can fix it and my laptop suddenly black screened after i updated the drivers. So i hope they can find some drivers where i can just manually disable the integrated gpu.
Also, when i was playing games the power button was orange if i remember correctly, but the game was still very laggy (about 40fps on smite, which is too low for this card) and in black ops ll the fps was really unstable (immense drops from 120 to 30) i think this also shouldn't be happening with this card right? And in games where you CAN manually pick the gpu, the dedicated one was just not given as an option. Also in benchmarks the dedicated card was noticed by the benchmark, but not used for some reason (having 20fps in a benchmark with this card at medium settings).
All this concludes for me that the dedicated gpu was not processing when ingame.
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pj

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GS series are slim & light models, so their temperature must be high and gathered on the surfaces of the bodies. If you're running demanding apps/games, it's uncomfortable and not recommended to put it on the top of your lap (although it's called a laptop). Some laptops won't have this problem that's just because they are not performance/gaming laptops at all or for office use. Some of the laptops are thick and the temperature was decreased and dissipated by the air flow when the heat propagated to the surface.
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[Test] Laptop MSI GS70 Stealth Pro
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Ease of use
Design
Weight
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Backlit Keyboard
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As far as gaming is concerned, one can play any game the 750M can, but may have to lower a couple of settings for some of them. If the DGPU failed, it would do exactly what happened with the Vaio. No reason really to assume that's going to happen but it is very much possible with a DGPU Model. The Iris Pro model is far less likely to fail in that way.
Before Iris Pro, One would have been against Intel graphics as they were too slow. Iris Pro is the first Intel graphics chip to hold up against dedicated GPUs.
It's important to remember that some of the NVidia GPUs from 2008 were defective, mostly the 8600M but some 9600M too. If you have a Retina Macbook Pro with a dedicated GPU, that's more likely to be problematic than Intel's integrated graphics. There have been hardly any issues with integrated graphics chips dying
Dedicated GPUs tend to be more powerful but they've always been less reliable. That's not to say they all fail, they just happen to have a higher rate of failure.
8600M, 9600M, 6970M, 6750M, 6490M, X1900XT, X1600, I think some old 7500 or 9200 too, all had issues.
I've never heard of an integrated graphics failure.
In the near future, Integrated graphics would be a better option for most people. Iris Pro is very close to the 650M/750M.
These are the comments that I have heard so far about the DGPU model Peter ? What do you guys think ? what would you guys advise me ?
Thanks !

Graphically intensive applications such as games. Some applications will turn it on just to improve graphic performance such as iPhoto. Having a dedicated card will have a higher resale value just because it has more hardware and better specs because of the additional card.

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