Hey guys. For nearly every game I run on my laptop, the GeForce Experience tag pops up asking you to enable it with Alt+Z or something. But for some reason, it never pops up in any of my C++ DirectX apps. Which means programmably there has got to be a way to enable it. I tried Googling this and got nothing. What do the pros do? Would be nice to have for FPS counters without having to do your own or use a graphics diagnostics. I use Visual Studio 2017. Thanks in advance.

Wow nothing o.o . Anyways, I opened up the NVidea GeForce Experience app to see if I can add a program to it, but it would not let me unless supported. I was thinking originally it is because it is not part of their supported list of games (see here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/geforce-experience/games/). But even with non supported games, it still pops up in that particular game, such as Alice Madness Returns. In my sample DirectX programs I wrote in C++, however, compiling it in Release mode rather than Debug, and running it still ended up not showing up at all. Do I have to add my program to NVidea exceptions, or what? What could possibly be missing?

[Edit] I posted this question on NVideas forums as well, so hopefully I can get some answers. Maybe from NVidea themselves! Well see.

5 hours ago, Psychopathetica said:

Wow nothing o.o . Anyways, I opened up the NVidea GeForce Experience app to see if I can add a program to it, but it would not let me unless supported. I was thinking originally it is because it is not part of their supported list of games (see here: https://edubirdie.com/analytical-essay-writing-service). But even with non supported games, it still pops up in that particular game, such as Alice Madness Returns. In my sample DirectX programs I wrote in C++, however, compiling it in Release mode rather than Debug, and running it still ended up not showing up at all. Do I have to add my program to NVidea exceptions, or what? What could possibly be missing?

[Edit] I posted this question on NVideas forums as well, so hopefully I can get some answers. Maybe from NVidea themselves! Well see.

I was considering to install GeForce Experience for my current project. Hopefully, I stumbled across your question here and know I'm thinking should I install it or look for some alternatives.

Well not only do you get an FPS counter, you also can use it to record and stream. Pretty useful if you ask me.

2 hours ago, NineYearCycle said:

nVidia create profiles for games to work with their GeForce Experience stuff but I've never tried to get a game involved with it.

One thing you might want to watch for is that it might not be using the nVidia GPU at all because it either doesn't realise that it's a 3D app or decides that it should be run on the integrated GPU.

You can add something like the following:

extern "C" {
// This is the quickest and easiest way to enable using the nVidia GPU on a Windows laptop with a dedicated nVidia GPU and Optimus tech.
// enable optimus!
__declspec(dllexport) DWORD NvOptimusEnablement = 0x00000001;

// AMD have one too!!!
__declspec(dllexport) int AmdPowerXpressRequestHighPerformance = 1;
}

 

Which will tell it to run on the dedicated GPU. This might then mean that it appears as the running app in GeForce Experience and you can then add a custom profile for it.

Interesting. I think I might try that when I get home from work.