Carbon wrote:I'm on NV/Intel and have never had this happen and no, it isn't likely to run as well on the discreet GPU at all. Misinformation, I think.
Well, I know that at least on laptops this happens often, owned some of them myself from different brands, different CPUs (all Intel), different dedicated GPUs (all nVidia), different qualities (mid-range, high-end, very high-end) and every single time I run UT on them it would always default to the Intel GPU.
The only way to run on the dedicated one was always to add UT to the list of applications to run on nVidia on its control panel.
I don't mean that it happens in every single case, each system is a system, but in my own sampling thus far comprised by different machines UT was never considered to be something to run on a nVidia card by default.
Having that said, if you own a desktop instead, I have no idea how the systems are set by default. It wouldn't surprise me if the behavior was the exact opposite on desktops, since they aren't exactly made to try to actively spare energy consumption, unlike laptops. So if what you have is a desktop, yeah, the opposite behavior is probably the most likely one.
Furthermore, UT is not the only game where this is a problem. Unity had a similar problem in the past, as well as another game engine/physics simulator which would choose the Intel GPU by default, and here my sampling was way bigger since I wasn't certainly the only one with this problem.
It was severe enough so that I reported the problem on the latter one, gave them a guide from nVidia in how to fix it, and they did end up fixing it and it started to run on the dedicated GPU by default.
If in newer systems this was a problem already, it's not unthinkable that an old game such as this to have this kind of behavior most of the time, on laptops at least.
PS.: My current setup is a MSI gaming laptop, with the same graphic card as UTNerd24 (with 6GB instead), but all the other specs superior (Windows 10, Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, etc), and I run UT in it, and I had to set UT to run on the dedicated card there as well.