AMD switchable graphics are not working OR I don't know how to make them work
- by Deus Deceit
I don't know if this is the right place for this question, but I'll give it a shot.
I have a Dell Inspiron 17R 5721. It's supposed to be using switchable graphics. It has an Intel HD 4000 and a Radeon HD 8730M and I'm using windows 8.
My problem is this, I Installed the drivers that dell gives me but I don't see the AMD graphics card ANYWHERE ( I do see it in device manager but not anywhere else to select and play a game using AMD). I installed the latest drivers from AMD and same thing, I can't run a game with AMD graphics card. I change the applications preferences in the Catalyst control center but even after that, games don't give me the option to select the AMD card, they list only the Intel HD 4000.
Can someone tell me what I have to do to make this work?
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After looking around and messing with stuff. I think.... I THINK that you don't
really get the option to select a graphics card. Switchable graphics is all about
switching automatically depending on application's needs. Cause when I uninstalled
AMD's drivers or actually (screwed up lol) games were playing much worse. When I re-installed them, games went back to being good looking. So even if a game sees only the Intel HD 4000 graphics card windows or AMD's drivers will switch to the AMD Readeon graphics card automatically. I hope someone can verify this. Cause seriously I don't think you get to play scyrim with High graphics settings or even ultra with the Intel HD Graphics card.
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