Acer Nitro 5 AN515-52 GPU Problem
So I have this Nitro 5 for about a year and I've never had any issues playing games like lags, etc. But then, I got into college and I stopped playing games for a few months. Until recently, I got some spare time and decided to play games, like CS:GO, MHW, Destiny 2, etc. And this where the problem begins. The first thing I noticed is that when I'm playing CS:GO the FPS never reached 200 and got FPS dropped pretty often, where usually it hit this number or even more without any lag, but I thought it was just the new CS:GO update or something. And then I played MHW and Destiny 2 and the FPS is just unbearable, it stays on 15 or more but never reached 30. I usually got a stable 60 FPS on MHW and this is just weird. So I checked the graphic option on MHW and Destiny 2 and there it is. The amount of VRAM available is only 120mb. What? My GTX 1050 has 4GB of VRAM and it only shows 120MB? After a few google searches I found out that the game was using my Intel GPU so I reinstalled the driver, I made sure to use NVIDIA GPU on the 3D settings and the games finally shows that I have 4GB of VRAM. But the problems doesn't end there. The games were still laggy as if nothing has changed despite the fact that the games were using my NVIDIA GPU. And this is where it gets weirder. I decided to disable the Intel GPU through device manager. And when I opened NVIDIA control panel, it shows an error message "NVIDIA Display settings are not available. You are not currently using a display attached to an NVIDIA GPU.". What??? I was so confused. I disabled my Intel GPU which would make my NVIDIA GPU the only GPU available and now NVIDIA control panel said that I'm not using any NVIDIA GPU?? I know that there is a way to disable the Intel GPU through the BIOS, but the problem is my BIOS is somehow locked and I don't even know password. So do you guys have any idea of what's happening to my laptop? Should I go to the Acer Customer Service to fix the problem and unlock my BIOS? (The nearest Acer Customer Center is pretty far from where I lived btw so I'm making this the last option) And this is what I have tried : Reinstalling both of the GPU's driver, reinstalling the game, setting the game on low settings (still got fps drop), reinstalling my Windows, twice, and yes, I've tried restarting my PC. Please help.
