Adjust Hybrid SLI Settings Under Power Options on Windows 7

I was working on my new laptop and have been having some crashes. After analyzing some of the dump files I determined that I was having some video driver issues. When I first got the laptop I remember setting the hybrid sli mode to high performance. After deciding I should probably switch this setting back to the default mode I was not able to find the option to switch it back. I couldn’t remember how I set it in the first place so I did a little googling and it told me there should be a GPU section under the advanced section of power settings.

Well when I looked at my power settings I could not find the GPU options. I knew I had set this up somehow but since I found a lot information about how the GPU was supposed to be under the power settings, I decided to embark on the quest to figure it out.

Turns out its disabled by default in Windows 7 for some reason. I wont speculate as to why but I wanted mine back. Generally when some thing that used to exist disappears, I look in the registry to see if its been simply disabled.

I found the setting and low and behold one of the values was HidePowerSetting and it was set to 1 which is true. I changed it to a 0 and it gave me the GPU settings I was looking for.

Here’s how I did it: