Problem Details:
Hear me out before flaming me for making a support post even though i've found the solution
applies to NVIDIA GPUs only
for the less informed about computers:
FIX:
1: open the start menu
2: click control panel
3: type "nvidia" into the search box
4: open the nvidia control panel
5: click the area highlighted by the red box in the screenshot below
6: now open the program settings tab
7:click add
8: select osu from the list, if its not there click browse and browse to C:\Program Files (x86)\osu! and select osu.exe
9: go to the second dropdown box and select "high performance Nvidia processor"
10: click apply at the bottom right and its done
In fact, this works for many games other than osu, incl minecraft etc...
SUGGESTION: until there's a way to make it run on GPU by default, either make osu detect that a graphics card and warn about it, and include information about it here https://osu.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articl ... -Solutions
or at least put this guide/info up somewhere prominent
(i'm willing to retype, add more pictures/video tutorial should this be posted up)
i'm not too sure if it affects the newer cards, but nvidia is quite a popular brand of gpus so i'll imagine it would affect many people
Video or screenshot showing the problem:
osu! version: all versions
Hear me out before flaming me for making a support post even though i've found the solution
applies to NVIDIA GPUs only
for the less informed about computers:
SPOILER
story:in a computer there's ALWAYS a central processing unit (CPU) and optionally a graphics processing unit(GPU), and obviously the latter is better at handling graphics. However there is basic graphic processing capabilities intergrated into the CPU (hence intergrated graphics) but its done more slowly. for low load work the system uses the CPU since turning the GPU off saves power, thus some computers might end up recognising osu as low load and not utilise the graphics card and thus runing at less than full potential (and causing lag, since graphics processing isn't quite the CPU's job)
SPOILER
Apprantly the first time I ran osu it was laggier than my other games, and crapped out my pc at kiai time/streams/sliderspam portions of maps, but it made no sense considering I am able to run other 3D games reletively smoothly, so i poked around and realised my graphics card usage happened to always be none when osu is running, and thus found a way to fix it (and yes quite a few other people I know experience the same issue)
FIX:
1: open the start menu
2: click control panel
3: type "nvidia" into the search box
4: open the nvidia control panel
5: click the area highlighted by the red box in the screenshot below
6: now open the program settings tab
7:click add
8: select osu from the list, if its not there click browse and browse to C:\Program Files (x86)\osu! and select osu.exe
9: go to the second dropdown box and select "high performance Nvidia processor"
10: click apply at the bottom right and its done
In fact, this works for many games other than osu, incl minecraft etc...
SUGGESTION: until there's a way to make it run on GPU by default, either make osu detect that a graphics card and warn about it, and include information about it here https://osu.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articl ... -Solutions
or at least put this guide/info up somewhere prominent
(i'm willing to retype, add more pictures/video tutorial should this be posted up)
i'm not too sure if it affects the newer cards, but nvidia is quite a popular brand of gpus so i'll imagine it would affect many people
Video or screenshot showing the problem:
SPOILER
auto select should not be choosing integrated!
auto select should not be choosing integrated!
osu! version: all versions
