I'm using a laptop with a windows os.

The only way I can run FFXIV with my nvidia graphics card is by right clicking the shortcut >> clicking run with graphics processor >> high performance graphics (my nvidia card). If I click "change default graphics processor", go into the whole nvidia menu, click on FFXIV, change the graphics processor to my nvidia card and hit apply, whenever I open my game normally it still uses the onboard graphics and the nvidia card is not even detected.

If I add all the FFXIV .exe's into the nvidia settings menu and switch all of them to nvidia, it is still undetected when I run my game. Even when trying to run the game through steam, its always onboard graphics. I even tried changing the global settings to my nvidia card, and same thing happens.

I tried disabling my onboard graphics but my screen just went black and I had to restart my pc.

Anyone know what's going on? Im mainly doing this because I want to use the steam interface with the non-steam version of FFXIV.