Application Profile Settings
Application profiles are accessible from within the NVIDIA Control Panel, under the
Manage 3D Settings->Program Settings tab. A profile associates an application and one
or more executables to a set of attributes that can affect the runtime behavior of the
application.
One of the attributes for each profile is Preferred graphics processor. The value shown
for this attribute describes the current value and a default value for a given profile. While
the user can alter the current value based on personal preference, the user can also use
Restore Defaults to return a profile back to its default settings, which restores each
setting to the listed default value.
The Preferred graphics processor value will be either 1) Integrated, 2) High
Performance, or 3) Use global setting. If the current value is set to Use global setting, then
the default value is also defined within the parentheses. The default value is either 1)
Integrated or 2) High Performance. The Use global setting value is a ‘power’ feature
which provides a user the ability to override many profiles at a time.