Games uses Integrated instead of Dedicated

russrn16

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Hi, I got a laptop yesterday, It is an HP Pavillion 15 15-ab113na. It had 2 Radeon graphics which is a Radeon R5 (from the A8 7410 apu) and a dedicated Radeon r7 M360. Now everytime I Fallout New Vegas or CS:GO, it uses the Integrated graphics instead of the dedicated one. I have the drivers that came with the OEM. I tried all that stuff like putting the game in high performance etc. but it dosent work. i also installed MSI Afterburner to monitor which GPU is being used but it is using the integrated GPU. I also tried disabling the integrated GPU in bios but there is no option to do that, i also tried to disable it in Device Manager but it uses Microsoft Basic Driver and not the R7. Is there a way to actually use the dedicated and not the r5.

Here is a screenshot after playing GTA 3 in max settings
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Hit start
type:
dxdiag
press enter
Go to the Display tab
On the right hand side it says Drivers
Please give us the
Version:
Date:

Thank you!

russrn16

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My ram is 6.94GB usable and I checked Catalyst control center and there is no option to choose the primary GPU



I haven't used any external monitors yet.
 


Hit start
type:
dxdiag
press enter
Go to the Display tab
On the right hand side it says Drivers
Please give us the
Version:
Date:

Thank you!
 
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darthvader30

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So 1GB is dedicated to the iGPU. In the BIOS can you find any settings related to IGFX? Since you have an APU you should find that option, change it to you dedicated GPU.
 

russrn16

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The verions is 15.201.1101.0
and the date is 8/6/2015
 

russrn16

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I was actually tryimg to look for it and there was no option to do that, i also updated my bios but its still not there