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How to change the GPU used in the game?​

Your Dedicated GPU (dGPU) is more powerful than your Integrated GPU (iGPU). Sometimes it can happen that Windows decides to use iGPU for Minecraft, which significantly degrades the game's performance. Here's how to fix that.

warning

Use one of the options at a time, not all together!
Option B implies that you disabled Option A, and Option C only applies if Option B is not configured.

And obviously apply these changes with the game closed.

Option A: Force dGPU from the Launcher settings​

  1. Start the launcher and go to Launcher Settings
  2. Enable the Use Dedicated GPU option
  3. Start the game

You'll see that the game now uses MinecraftJava.exe instead of javaw.exe

Option B: Force dGPU from the Windows settings​

  1. Follow this video or go to Settings -> System -> Display -> Graphics settings
  2. You'll see a section that says Graphics performance preference, click on browse and look for javaw.exe
  3. Click add, select Max performance for your GPU and click OK

If you don't know which javaw.exe to select: Start the game -> Then minimize -> Open the Task Manager look for the Java process -> Right click -> Open location and the file that it will show you is the javaw.exe you need to select in step 2

Option C: Force dGPU from your GPU Control Panel​

note

Intel doesn't seem to have an option for this, so you'll have to use Option B. AMD seems to but it's not very clear and finally Nvidia that we do have an explanation to give.

PS: If you don't know which javaw.exe to select: Start the game -> Then minimize -> Open the Task Manager look for the Java process -> Right click -> Open location and the file that it will show you is the javaw.exe you need to select in step 4

  1. Press Windows + S to open the search bar and search for NVIDIA Control Panel (open it)
  2. Select Manage 3D Settings -> Select the Global settings tab
  3. Click on the Preferred graphics processor option -> Select High-performance Nvidia processor
  4. Go to the Program Settings tab -> Click on the Add button -> Find/Browse on the Add window -> Choose the javaw.exe file you found in the Note
  5. Choose the High-performance Nvidia processor option from the menu
  6. Click Apply for changes

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