Greetings, I recently bought a DELL Inspirion 3737 with the following specs:
IntelCore i7-4500u (1.80 GHz 2.40 GHZ)
8GB of Ram
AMD Radeon HD 8870M and an Integrated Intel HD family card
Windows 8 x64
So after a few days of using the Laptop I started wondering why my games with quite a strong video card experience FPS drops, and major ones at that.
I did try the Catalyst Control Center and Intel HD Graphics Control Center, in order to set my Laptop to High Performance on everything.
According to what I found on the internet that should have done it, but after a bit of testing I noticed that there is exactly no difference between High Perfomance and Battery Save profiles in games, I get exactly the same FPS.
After which I installed a game (RTW2) which allowed me to see my video card in its options, and it was using the Integrated video card instead of my AMD Radeon. And yes I did add the .exe file/application to "High Performance"
Here's my question, how do I fix this? I saw some suggestions on the net to set my primary display adapter through BIOS; but I cannot in the life of me find the option there, actually I think I found everything BUT video card adapter options or what not.
As I said before I did set my profiles to high perfomance in both Catalyst and Intel, yet it does not help.
Oh and another thing, since I'm using my Laptop primary at Home or at least I always have my charger with me I would like to use the AMD Radeon for everything, and screw that battery life. I would really appreciate it if somebody would help me simply to set priority to my AMD and disable/set lowest priority to my Intel display adapters!
IntelCore i7-4500u (1.80 GHz 2.40 GHZ)
8GB of Ram
AMD Radeon HD 8870M and an Integrated Intel HD family card
Windows 8 x64
So after a few days of using the Laptop I started wondering why my games with quite a strong video card experience FPS drops, and major ones at that.
I did try the Catalyst Control Center and Intel HD Graphics Control Center, in order to set my Laptop to High Performance on everything.
According to what I found on the internet that should have done it, but after a bit of testing I noticed that there is exactly no difference between High Perfomance and Battery Save profiles in games, I get exactly the same FPS.
After which I installed a game (RTW2) which allowed me to see my video card in its options, and it was using the Integrated video card instead of my AMD Radeon. And yes I did add the .exe file/application to "High Performance"
Here's my question, how do I fix this? I saw some suggestions on the net to set my primary display adapter through BIOS; but I cannot in the life of me find the option there, actually I think I found everything BUT video card adapter options or what not.
As I said before I did set my profiles to high perfomance in both Catalyst and Intel, yet it does not help.
Oh and another thing, since I'm using my Laptop primary at Home or at least I always have my charger with me I would like to use the AMD Radeon for everything, and screw that battery life. I would really appreciate it if somebody would help me simply to set priority to my AMD and disable/set lowest priority to my Intel display adapters!
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