Old Client not working with optimus at all

[Notcrattey]

So after figuring the 940m just didn't cut it for the new engine I decided to try to use the old engine for a bit better performance. What I found though is I couldn't get the graphics card to work with it at all, it's the intel based graphics or just CPU bound. I tried adding it to the nvidia control panel but it just refused to use the card, in fact it seems so separated it never shows up in the recently used list either. A solution to this would be great, otherwise I guess I'll have to stick to the new engine which gets dangerously hot for my laptop

My specs are:

Nvidia GT 940m
Intel core i5 5200U with intel 5500 graphics
Windows 8.1

[Notcrattey]

No solutions?

[Auct]

Is there a reason you are sticking with Win 8.1 rather than taking advantage of the free windows 10 update?

I run the old engine on on my laptop with a i5-4200U and integrate intel HD graphics, previously I had severe graphics glitches (missing floors/textures, unreadable text, red laser show), however none of this is present post the win 10 upgrade. I believe other forum users have reported similar resolutions when moving to win 10.

[Caloss2]

Did you try installing DX9 ? https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/down....aspx?id=34429

[Anonimofied]

940m should be able to handle ao new engine, even the intel 5500 should be able to handle it as well. Because the new engine is an illusions, its actually not "new". And the old engine was created back in the year 2000 were hardwares like AGP, Front Side Bus, Single data rate ram, intel Pentium dominated, and i believe AO isnt optimized well enough to be compatible with new hardwares that people are using today in 2016. However if you can play other new games without problems then the issue is not with your hardwares. What you can try is installing old drivers, old directx like Caloss2 adviced, and maybe older Windows because i have seem players with similar issue as you described resolved this issue by installing Windows 7 Ultimate, but i havent tested so i cant confirm if this is working or not because i donated my intel/nvidia setup away and using AMD/AMD for gaming without any problems.

[Phargus]

Do you have the "Direct3d T&L Hal" option under rendering device settings in the ao client? If not, try forcing both anarchy.exe and anarchyolline.exe to use the 940m in nvidia control panel. Hopefully this should make the T&L option show up in your ao client.

[Anonimofied]

OP says he have tried this but 940m wont shows up. You read the bellow problems descriptions i quoted if you havent done so:

... I tried adding it to the nvidia control panel but it just refused to use the card, in fact it seems so separated it never shows up in the recently used list either.

[Phargus]

Well yeah, but he didn't say if he added the loader executable too or just the game client.