- Sep 5, 2013
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Hello, this is my first post on Tom's Hardware, so please bare with me and I hope this is in the right place. 
To start off with I have a Sony Vaio SVE1713Y1EB Laptop ( http://uk.hardware.info/productinfo/194361/sony-vaio-sve-1713y1eb ) and I've always been a little annoyed at how low its battery life is, since buying it about a year ago. Yesterday I've noticed something strange, while the laptop was idle with pretty much nothing on, it was using its dedicated Graphics card, instead of the integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics that it should be using; so I went into Device manager and found that it only listed the Dedicated ATI card in "Display Adapters", now I've read up a bit on the topic that in Nvidia cards its managed by Optimus, and the equivalent in ATI is Dynamic Switchable Graphics (DSG), but after looking around for a while I'm not exactly sure where to get this, is this a separate driver that i need to download or should I download a driver for the Intel HD 4000 card and DSG is already contained in the current ATI driver (with CCC)? also is there a way to set it up so that it switches to the dedicated card in certain applications and keeps using integrated in others?
Regards.
K. Marek
To start off with I have a Sony Vaio SVE1713Y1EB Laptop ( http://uk.hardware.info/productinfo/194361/sony-vaio-sve-1713y1eb ) and I've always been a little annoyed at how low its battery life is, since buying it about a year ago. Yesterday I've noticed something strange, while the laptop was idle with pretty much nothing on, it was using its dedicated Graphics card, instead of the integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics that it should be using; so I went into Device manager and found that it only listed the Dedicated ATI card in "Display Adapters", now I've read up a bit on the topic that in Nvidia cards its managed by Optimus, and the equivalent in ATI is Dynamic Switchable Graphics (DSG), but after looking around for a while I'm not exactly sure where to get this, is this a separate driver that i need to download or should I download a driver for the Intel HD 4000 card and DSG is already contained in the current ATI driver (with CCC)? also is there a way to set it up so that it switches to the dedicated card in certain applications and keeps using integrated in others?
Regards.
K. Marek
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