Help with gaming on my computer

[tamuchi97]

Hello,
Hey guys, I just bought my new alienware laptop and unfortunately i am having a couple of problems.
for starters, when i tried to play To the moon, the game screen was black, although i could hear the sound, the same thing on To the moon.
When I tried playing Ib the screen was flashing like crazy, it makes me really sad because i was really happy about my new laptop.
My laptop information:
Intel (R) HD Graphics 4000
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675M
Thanks

 

[Brett928S2]

Hi

Make sure its using the 675m ..NOT the HD 4000...

All the best Brett

 

[jemm]

You should be able to play these games -- there might have a conflict between HD Graphics 4000 and your GTX 675M.

Have a look in the bios and look at the Graphic Card settings.

 

[tamuchi97]

hey guys, sorry, i am not so good into computer talk, can you please tell me how to change that? thanks

 

[The Stealthinator]

Go into your graphics settings and make sure your machine is using the 675M as Brett said. To do that go to Control Panel > Hardware & Sound. You should see settings for your graphics card listed there is you have the drivers installed.

 

[tamuchi97]

I checked with the Directx Diagnosed tool and it tells me that i am using the Intel in device, how do i change this?

 

[tamuchi97]

Now i screwed up really bad, i desabled the intel grañhic card in an attempt to enable the nvidia one, my screen went black, oh oh, i am fresking ojt, any advice? Please, and worse yet, it restarted, and its freezed up in the screen! Oh god, what to do...

 

[jemm]

Enter the bios on the start up, then select default settings, then save it.

 

[tamuchi97]

How do i enter the bios? The only thing i can do when i start my computer is control+I, after that the next screen has some options: 1.create raid volume 2.delete raid volume 3.reset disk to non raid 4.recovery volume options 5.acceleration options
(The options to number four were enable only recovery disc (which doesn't work because i do not have one) and enable only master disk)

 

[jemm]

Power your computer while keep pressing ´delete´, it should bring you into the bios.

 

[tamuchi97]

It doesnt work, like i told you, that is the only thing i can do, then it freezes on the loading screen

 

[tamuchi97]

It worked by itself back to life, don't really know how, i activated the intel graphic card again and now everything is okey, except for my first problem, also, when i try to play games on steam, nothing happens after preparing to launch :/
Found out how to do it, thanks for the help guys!

 

[tamuchi97]

Best answer selected by tamuchi97.

 

[jemm]

Talk to Steam support about that, they will be able to assist you further.