I have an Alienware 17 R3 that has a video stutter problem whenever I play a video using a media player (I've tried the Windows 10 player, VLC player, Quicktime, GOM). Videos seem to stutter at about 5 - 10 second intervals. I believe it is due to the Intel integrated graphics. I have placed the laptop in performance mode and globally set the Nvidia 970 card as the preferred GPU, but I still have the stutter whenever I play a video. I have updated the Intel drivers. I tried to use the NVidia control panel program settings to individually set the media players to use the Nvidia card, but it only gives the option to use the Intel GPU. And there is no setting in the BIOS that I can find to set the Nvidia card as the default GPU.

Is there any way to fix this stutter?