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Intergrated Graphics and on board graphics on Laptop ..Help please!

tomr2992

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Posted January 22, 2013 at 9:37PM

Hi all,

First post of many having been away on a iMac for a number of years. I've just bought a new Dell 5521 with Intel 4000 on board graphics and also a 2gb AMD Radeon 8730M.

I'm a little confused on how they both work together. I've just ran a novabench mark test and it uses only the on board graphics (4000). I don't know why this was the case. Also I've disabled the 4000 and trying to run Star Wars online it gives the optimum performance as very low. Surly this isn't the case with this graphics card? I least expected medium to high. Any direction is most appreciated.

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northumbria61

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Posted January 22, 2013 at 9:48PM

Take a look here enter link description here scroll right down to bottom

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tomr2992

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Posted January 22, 2013 at 10:01PM

That very helpful to know that it can be done however I'm trying to use the AMD Catalyst control centre. It doesn't appear to have this option that is given from Nvidia.

Typical.

I think I'm nearly there though. It doesn't help that the AMD site doesn't even have the graphics card listed its that new. Bugger

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tomr2992

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Posted January 22, 2013 at 10:02PM

Further to my above I've just tried to install a game "Hawk". It says its not compatible due to intel 4000 being too low. Arrhhhh!!! No option to swap.

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tomr2992

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Posted January 22, 2013 at 10:20PM

Sorted sorted sorted. Thanks for the help. Having downloaded the AMD centre there was the option to swap foe different games.

Thanks again

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northumbria61

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Posted January 22, 2013 at 11:16PM

Brilliant - thanks fore the feedback.

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northumbria61

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Posted January 22, 2013 at 11:17PM

fore? - time for bed !

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tomr2992

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Posted January 24, 2013 at 6:54PM

Bad news. Having spoken to Dell it would appear that the computer used the Intel 4000 as standard and can't be over ridden. This is still the case when going through the Bios. There isn't even the option to turn off the onboard graphics. What a ball ache. I can't understand why they would ship a decent graphics card on the laptop and have if redundant most of the time. If anyone knows a program to completely disable the onboard graphics it would be a massive help.

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