Windows laptop integrated/dedicated graphic card problems

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I have a HP pavilion 15-ec2018na that today after having no issues after a graphics update yesterday has decided that it just doesn't want to use the dedicated graphics chip anymore and is insisting on using the integrated instead.
I've tried everything that i can think of which includes the following, uninstalled and reinstalled the driver, installed the latest driver from the HP website, running windows update, setting the NVIDIA GPU as the default device in both the windows graphic option and the NVIDIA control panel, set the PhysX processor to the NVIDIA one and swore a lot at it.
If i run a game it shows the NVIDIA chip as taking the load in the task manager but the performance is beyond poor, if i try and disable the integrated it basically turns the graphics back to the 1990's if the game runs at all.

I really don't have any idea why its doing this and I've exhausted every option I can think of or find on the internet so far and i would really appreciate some help :confused:
 
Do you have the ability to connect an external monitor\TV to the laptop?

Do you have system restore enabled? Could always do a system restore back to before the issue started as it could be a Windows update or something that has caused the issues.

Is there anything in event viewer under applications or System?
 
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