Vulkan NOT using dedicated GPU! 0.33.x.x

Hey guys,
Firstly, I use a laptop to play BeamNG.Drive.

Specs:
2016 Dell Latitude 5580
Windows 10
Intel i5-7440HQ
12GB RAM
Intel HD Grapics 630
Nvidia GeForce 940MX

I haven't had trouble with this in 0.32.x.x.

Before I downloaded 0.33.x.x I had to reset my laptop.

Now onto the issue. When I saw that the latest update (0.33) improved Vulkan renderer stability/FPS, I was so keen to test it out! I am using the latest version of BeamNG.Drive (0.33.x.x).

However, when I launch BeamNG.Drive in Vulkan mode it uses my iGPU (Intel HD Graphics 630) instead of my dedicated GPU (Nvidia GeForce 940MX), confirmed in the 'performance' tab of. settings

I went into Windows settings app and selected beamng.exe and beamng (x64).exe to use high performance card (I couldn't find x86 exe).
I also went into Nvidia control panel and set beamng.exe, beamng (x86).exe, and beamng (x64).exe to use high performance card.

I installed the latest drivers from Dell for the iGPU and dedicated GPU.

None of these resolved the problem and I don't know what to do next.
Any help is muchly appreciated!!!

Thanks

 

Hello, I had the same issue some months ago, here's how I did to get rid of the integrated GPU:
Go to Device Manager in your Windows search bar, then search for Display adapters and deactivate your integrated GPU. Then you don't even have to restart your computer, it should work now.

 

Hey,
I just tried your suggestion, and it did not work!
Here is the error code when I try to run Vulkan mode (after applying your suggestion)

 

i have the same problem and this is the first post i see about it, i'll keep up and if i find anything i'll come back here
--- Post updated ---
i joined vulkan's discord, with a detailed message about the problem with a log, and they said our gpus just arent compatible with the features the renderer needs right now, we have the same architecture, and im assuming all the people that have these cards have the same problem, they said we'd have to ask the developers for a compatibility update



error message: '0.99397|W|engine::GFXVkDevice::init| Creation failed err=ErrorFeatureNotPresent device='NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti'
we just have to hope the beamng team sees this
log:

 

Thank you bro! this is vital info that must be brought to the dev's attention. I was hoping it was not only me.
Let's both do a bug report with all the information so the devs can fix it.
They released a hotfix last night but they didn't include any fixes for the Vulkan renderer, so I'm hoping they can fix it next hotfix.

 

the 0.33.2 version is a hotfix from almost a week ago that was removed from the patch notes for some odd reason, ill make a bug report on their discord about the problem

 

For the game not using your dedicated graphics: This hotfix changed the filename of the BeamNG executable. To add the game to Windows Graphics settings and Nvidia Control Panel, you have to add "beamng.drive.x64.exe", located in the Bin64 folder. The 0.33 update initially change the exe to "beamng.x64.exe" before being reverted in 0.33.2

 

it would be nice if that was the problem we have, but the game currently cant run regardless of what we do.

 

Was the game running fine before 0.33?

 

yes and it runs fine on dx11, the issue here is the devs not adding support to older gpus on this vulkan update

 

Oh, okay. Guess it must have been something to do with the Vulkan changes they did.

 

oh ok it seems that its mostly a laptop that has intel hd and then an aextra dedicated graphics card. also my pc has a 1070 GTX and vulkan works absolutely splended but ye we have to wait ig for them to fix it!