Laptop GPU doesn't work with Freelancer

[Ramke]

Had the same problem with my laptop. Freelancer was running on the integrated Intel GPU instead of the nVidia 860m.
Here's what worked for me:
- Get the d3d8.dll file from this thread, and paste it in the EXE folder: "Freelancer could not find a video card" crash - Read this.
- Attempt to launch Discovery. You're probably going to get an error for a missing d3dx9 DLL. In that case, try installing DirectX 9 from this link: Download DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer
Now Freelancer is properly recognized by the driver, and is showing up in the nVidia activity monitor. Hope that works for you as well.

Thanks for the solution Nerva, but it didn't seem like it worked.

I put the .dll there, but it didn't really change anything...