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Nvidia + Intel video card on laptop, can't get Mixed Reality to work

Trying to get my HP Headset setup for mixed reality development..

My laptop (Lenovo Yoga 700) has a somewhat decent video card (Geforce 940M). This card is detected on Mixed Reality as good enough to run, since it has WDDM 2.2 drivers installed. All good.. but my laptop also has an Intel 520 card, which, on the current version (Skylake) only has WDDM 2.1. Now the external hdmi output goes through the intel card, so even though I have enough power and drivers to run Mixed Reality with the Geforce, the HDMI output does not work (it does not pass the compatibility test screen).

I tried disabling the Intel 520 card on the device manager, It then passes the compatibility test screen, but it also disables the HDMI port, so the headset never gets detected.

Any ideas how to get it working? (if even possible)

Answers

  • Maybe there's a setting in the bios to change which GPU the HDMI port is connected to? /longshot

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  • even if you do get it working, I suspect that your graphics card won't actually be sufficient to run Windows Mixed Reality.

    https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/install_the_tools#immersive_headset_development
    lists the 965m as the low end NVIDIA mobile GPU.

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  • So if you have an NVidia 960m which is more powerful than the Intel 620 requirement, you're still not allowed to use your GPU. I think this will be confusing to users.

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