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Laptop not switching to dedicated GPU

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I just bought a Lenovo Y50 with a Intel 4600 and Geforce GTX 860M 4GB. I updated to the latest drivers and playing games seems to run fine. I was able to play BF3, Tera, TF2 at good speeds. Lately, I tried to play the games again and I noticed the image quality looked a lot different and ran super slow at half the fps it was before. Then I really the laptop was not swtching to the Geforce. I tried forcing the GPU to run the application through the Nvidia control panel by manually select the preferred GPU as Nvidia. I also tried to launch the games by right-clicking the exe file and selecting launch with gpu.... option.

I have not done anything to the laptop such as installing or uninstalling software since the last time it was working properly. Running out of ideas.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

Lenovo Y50
Intel 4600 / Geforce GTX 860M 4GB
Windows 8.1
 

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