How to shift between display adapters

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orca0007

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I have Intel 4000 and AMD Radeon HD 7670M in my laptop, i want to know which display works by default and is there any way to change the default display driver, also among these which one should i choose as my default display driver.

Another possibility could be they both work simultaneously?- please confirm

CPU-z says it is using the intel now. Why is it not using AMD?

Also in case i change my default driver and it doesn't work, tell me procedure to roll back
 
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Tom Tancredi
First calm down, this is all by design. The laptop comes with two cards, the Integrated and the Dedicated. When your in Word, or surfing webpages, you are using 2D and do not need a 'gaming card' to push frames, so why overheat your computer / eat up battery life using the 7670m? That is where (like when your running CPU-Z) the Intel 4000 comes in to do the 'light work'. When you crank on say Battlefield 4 or run Furmark where your cranking 3D graphics, the BIOS/Windows jointly figure this out and 'switch' you to the gaming card. So you can do both light work, as well as serious gaming all in the same computer without wasting power, battery life, or overheating unnecessarily.

This is all covered in the USER MANUAL. You might want to...
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The intel uses less power and makes less heat. Therefore, unless you set it to use the AMD, it'll go for the intel.

Somewhere in Catalyst you should be able to set the default for each application, and the global default for those that aren't specified.

It uses one or the other per window, then whichever the display is connected to (usually the Intel) puts it all together.
 
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First calm down, this is all by design. The laptop comes with two cards, the Integrated and the Dedicated. When your in Word, or surfing webpages, you are using 2D and do not need a 'gaming card' to push frames, so why overheat your computer / eat up battery life using the 7670m? That is where (like when your running CPU-Z) the Intel 4000 comes in to do the 'light work'. When you crank on say Battlefield 4 or run Furmark where your cranking 3D graphics, the BIOS/Windows jointly figure this out and 'switch' you to the gaming card. So you can do both light work, as well as serious gaming all in the same computer without wasting power, battery life, or overheating unnecessarily.

This is all covered in the USER MANUAL. You might want to sit down and take a read on all these unique features YOUR specific laptop has.
 
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Thanks, it thus means BIOS/ windows will do the work of shifting automatically....as per requirement. it also means there wont be any difference in performance when i am using 2D with either of the cards
 
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