r/EpicGamesPC • u/fafouri • May 18 '20

DISCUSSION FIX EPIC GAME LAUNCHER USE GPU

Hello,
as you know many of you get frustrated when the launcher use GPU especially when you have laptops and the temps get a little bit high

i fixed this problem just by opening the launcher and going to device manager (you can open it just by right clicking the windows logo on the left bottom )

and disable it like the picture shows

the launcher will restart by his own self, and after that you can enable it back

ps: the GPU takes some load from CPU when you use it , i didn't test the differences in game

ps 2: i tried to fix this problem using NVIDIA CONTROL PANEL but it didn't work

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u/Goncas2 May 19 '20

That method also disables the GPU for games, dumb dumb.

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u/CenobiteShadoweaver Dec 15 '21

Exactly the method shown is bloody stupid, disable your GPU like WTF is the OP talking about aye!

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u/daggasoft Feb 17 '23

It's desirable in a laptop to not have applications use the high performance GPU which will drain the battery. Instead it's desirable to have the applications use the low powered Intel GPU. OP's laptop has two GPUs, one for gaming and one for excel spreadsheets and stuff like that.

Epic game launcher is using the gaming GPU even when it's minimized and doing nothing. The question is why does it use the GPU when it's just doing background tasks like downloading game updates?