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    Series 7 Chronos switchable graphics

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by zerovector, Nov 23, 2011.

  1. zerovector

    zerovector Newbie

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    Has anyone had any luck with actually having the laptop USE the switchable graphics? I have tried running Cinebench and 3d Mark but the laptop refuses to switch over to the Radeon GPU for these.

    Model is 700Z5A-S04US. Just picked it up last night.
     
    zerovector, Nov 23, 2011
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    XtremeProject Notebook Consultant

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    Did you try setting them to high performance?
    It kind of takes it time to kick in sometimes.
     
    XtremeProject, Nov 23, 2011
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  3. zerovector

    zerovector Newbie

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    Yes I did. They are both set for high performance.
     
    zerovector, Nov 23, 2011
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    zerovector Newbie

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    So apparently it's a known issue with 3D Mark 11 and currently there is no workaround. Bummer.
     
    zerovector, Nov 23, 2011
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    gamaster Notebook Enthusiast

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    gamaster, Nov 24, 2011
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  6. Epik

    Epik Notebook Enthusiast

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    Anyone got any info on this?

    I load up skyrim and it just shows HD Intel graphics.
     
    Epik, Nov 25, 2011
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    Epik : I have the same problem under Skyrim.

    Have you found a solution as of yet? (I see ur post is somewhat old)
     
    Stern83, Dec 20, 2011
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    muerteman Notebook Consultant

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    I set skyrim to medium and made sure the .exe was listed under high performance and I get easily playable fps. I think there is a bug in the detection but I don't see how intel could get the performance I am seeing. Try Skyrim, even if it says Intel you may get good performance. Just finished the Dark Brotherhood actually last night on this laptop.
     
    muerteman, Dec 20, 2011
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    I tried to put both "high performance" and "energy saving" in Civilization V and I get same FPS, so:

    + System automatically detects the graphic demand and switch to AMD card (so the buttons are useless?)

    + There is a bug in the drivers so AMD Card can't be activated (I doubt it in Civilization V, I get reasonably good FPS, although I expected more)

    With GPU-Z I can observe that AMD Card is activated as soon as the game launches, even if "energy saving" mode is active.

    It can't be so hard to set a button allowing to change graphic card manually and an indicator or something that show the actual card in the system... For example, my last laptop run firefox MUCH better than this, and I bet that the non-switchable AMD5650 card is the reason, but I can't switch to AMD card with Firefox even if I choose "High performance" option in AMD Catalyst, so I'm "forced" to use Chrome (run smoothly with Intel card).
     
    Korso10, Dec 20, 2011
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  10. Epik

    Epik Notebook Enthusiast

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    No, I'm trying to find a fix on these forums right now but don't see anything. Maybe there is a graphics driver update or something.
     
    Epik, Dec 25, 2011
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