FFXIV not acknowledging NVIDIA, forcing onboard gfx.

[JamieLee]

Assuming you mean optimus where your primary card is a intel hd 4000 and your secondary card is your nvidia gpu... Go into your nvidia options and turn on the gpu display activity and turn on contextual menu to run with nvidia processor. right click on the ffxiv launcher and click run with Nvidia gpu... In game it will still say intel hd4000 but if you look at the gpu activity it will say nvidia 1 program in use.

They wouldn't notice it because its not a SE FF XIV issue its a Nvidia Optimus issue. And well Optimus support is special sometimes.

[Fuzzybottoms]

I'm noticing a similar issue with my new Samsung Series 7 with a AMD hd8770m. I know the the 8770m graphics solution isn't exactly top of the line in mobile graphics, but I was expecting a little more than 17fps?

It doesn't use Optimus obviously, as such there isn't the switch to manually change your graphics over to the discrete. I have everything set to max performance, in the Catalyst Control panel & yet I am hovering around 15-20fps. Of course, I went into the Catalyst control panel and set everything to max performance for FFXIV under specific app settings.

If anyone has a similar rig and any suggestions I would love to hear them.

Thanks