Hello all.
I just recently bought a new Samsung Ativ Book 8, I am loving it so far.
However, it comes with 2 different graphics cards. An integrated Intel 4000 HD for conserving battery life and a dedicated AMD Radeon HD 8770M for performance use such as gaming.
Now in order to activate and use the performance graphics, you must go into the Catalyst Control Center software (which comes on the PC) and select which applications you want to run using which graphics card.
When I first found this out, I switched XCOM: Enemy Declassified to run high performance graphics, and got the game to run fine. I was also able to play Planetside 2 on medium graphics settings after setting it to use the dedicated graphics. However, when I try to run "Dream", another of my games, on the dedicated graphics, the game is unplayable, (slow frame rates, lag, etc...) even on low graphics settings. I get the feeling that Dream is not actually being run on the dedicated graphics, but rather on the Intel HD 4000, as the 3 games are relatively similar in terms of graphics intensiveness, and XCOM and Planetside work just fine.
So I guess my question is, does anyone have experience with these Samsung laptops and/or am I missing something or doing something wrong? Or is my laptop really just too slow to run Dream, even on low graphics settings? It seems to me like my system should be able to run the game if it can run Planetside and XCOM...
EDIT: I am running all these games on Steam. Is it possible that there is some sort of application that I need to set to high performance for Dream that I am missing/not turning on?
I just recently bought a new Samsung Ativ Book 8, I am loving it so far.
However, it comes with 2 different graphics cards. An integrated Intel 4000 HD for conserving battery life and a dedicated AMD Radeon HD 8770M for performance use such as gaming.
Now in order to activate and use the performance graphics, you must go into the Catalyst Control Center software (which comes on the PC) and select which applications you want to run using which graphics card.
When I first found this out, I switched XCOM: Enemy Declassified to run high performance graphics, and got the game to run fine. I was also able to play Planetside 2 on medium graphics settings after setting it to use the dedicated graphics. However, when I try to run "Dream", another of my games, on the dedicated graphics, the game is unplayable, (slow frame rates, lag, etc...) even on low graphics settings. I get the feeling that Dream is not actually being run on the dedicated graphics, but rather on the Intel HD 4000, as the 3 games are relatively similar in terms of graphics intensiveness, and XCOM and Planetside work just fine.
So I guess my question is, does anyone have experience with these Samsung laptops and/or am I missing something or doing something wrong? Or is my laptop really just too slow to run Dream, even on low graphics settings? It seems to me like my system should be able to run the game if it can run Planetside and XCOM...
EDIT: I am running all these games on Steam. Is it possible that there is some sort of application that I need to set to high performance for Dream that I am missing/not turning on?