Game is running on my cpu despite both windows and nvidia specificaly telling it to use the goddman gpu, unplayable sadly
Nvidia Control Panel does not have priority over what Windows tells the application to use. Windows always has the "final say". To fix this, go to your "Graphics Settings" (open Start menu, search for "Graphics Settings", it'll be in your Windows Settings page), click "Add desktop app", on the File Explorer window that appears you'll need to navigate to the directory where you have the Carnal Instinct main file. Then, follow this tree:
(
Carnal Instinct Root) > Carnal_Instinct_UE5 > Binaries > Win64 and add specifically the file titled "Carnal_Instinct_UE5-Win64-Shipping.exe".
Once you've done this, you'll see "Carnal Instinct" appear in the list back on your Settings page. You can then click the drop-down arrow to expand the management menu and under "GPU preference", select the GPU you prefer to use.