Windower causing graphical lag, Hybrid video cards

Hello support forum,

I'm having issues getting windower to run without lag on my laptop. Here are my specs:

Windows 10
16GB RAM
Hybrid Graphics: 

     - Intel HD Graphics 4600

     - Nvidia GeForce 745M 2gb
Intel i7-4700MQ 2.40Ghz (8 CPUs)

When running vanilla FFXI I get no lag issues whatsoever, but when running with windower I get -severe- graphical lag (drops to 10FPS in outside zones + towns, or when trusts are out) ... Really the only thing i've been able to do without lag is solo limbus... and even that gets choppy if an avatar is summoned.

I have:
- Turned off all shadows
- Reduced Clipping Plane to the minimum
- Turned off all 'effects'
- Reduced characters on screen to the minimum
- Turned graphics down to 1366x768
- Turned off super sampling
- Turned off Bump Mapping
- Turned off Mip Mapping
- Turned off HWAcceleration in the registry
- Set the default graphics card for all programs to be the nvidia card
- Set the default graphics specifically for ffxi, pol, and windower to be the nvidia card
- Set drawdistance to 1

- Downloaded latest video drivers

- Reinstalled Windower

And yet despite all this, windower still lags severely... turning off all these options has shown a very minimal improvement, but nothing actually worth talking about (1 maybe 2 FPS)
Again, running FFXI normally without windower, runs without lag, even on 1920x1080

I'm not sure what else to do at this point.... I've tried everything I can think of.

At this point Im assuming windower is not properly using the Nvidia graphics card for some reason... because I had a laptop 3 years ago that did not have a hybrid card, and ran windower with max settings beyond perfectly, and it was nowhere near as good as this current machine. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

Reinstalled new driver, lag is improved, but still gets bad with trusts or in abyssea

I do think that Windower may be selecting the Intel GPU unintentionally here. I have a pretty good idea about what may be causing this, but I'm not sure how easy it will be to fix.

If you're still experiencing issues with this then configure your nvidia software tools to specifically utilize your gpu for pol

Here's a related thread on bg, hope it works out for you

https://www.bluegart...125158-Low-FPS-(FFXI-not-using-dedicated-card)

I had a similar issue, also am using intel hd 4600 but with nvidia 860M

I guess the intel graphics arent compatible with windows 10, so i had to go back to 8.1, no issues since i reverted