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If your laptop has a dual GPU setup with both Intel integrated graphics as well as a dedicated NVIDIA or AMD graphics card, updating the Intel driver could potentially cause problems. Warning: There is one case where we’d be more cautious doing this.

Computer manufacturers can’t customize this Intel graphics hardware, so Intel’s own drivers should be fine. However, we don’t see any reason why the standard Intel drivers shouldn’t work on PCs with just Intel graphics. They can only allow drivers they’ve tested to run on your PC. Manufacturers enable this setting because they’re cautious. These newer versions may only be available from Intel directly. Manufacturers often don’t keep these graphics drivers updated, and you may need a newer version of the graphics driver to fix bugs or achieve faster performance in some games. Click ‘Apply’ in the bottom right and you’re good to go.Unfortunately, there are some big problems with this.Where it says ‘Select the preferred graphics processor for this program’ click the drop-down and choose ‘High Performance NVIDIA processor’.Navigate to your Algodoo folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Algodoo) and select Algodoo.exe and press ‘open'(this step will probably depend on your operating system but should be pretty easy to find).

Select the “Program Settings” tab in the main window.

Select ‘Manage 3D Settings’ in the left pane.

Right-click on desktop and click NVIDIA Control Panel.

Thankfully, the solution to this is straight-forward:

If it starts with INTEL, go to In rare cases, some laptops will try to use the wrong graphics chipset for Algodoo (we’ve only heard of this problem on the “NVidia Optimus” chipset).

Look at the name of the graphics card under the “Display adapters” (in the example image below it is “NIVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+”). If this fails, there is one other way to go about it, and that is downloading the drivers directly from the hardware vendor.

Click “Search automatically for updated driver software”.

Under “Display adapters”, right-click your graphics card and select “Properties”.

Enter “devmgmt.msc” (without quotations) and press enter.

Press win+r (the “win” button is the one between left ctrl and alt).

If you don’t know what this means, continue and hope for the best. First make sure you are logged in as administrator, i.e.