Asus U43Jc Bamboo Series gpu question

Hello, my friend recently bought an asus U43Jc bamboo series notebook.
But while testing, we found out that the recognized video card for the notebook is the intel integrated one on screen resolution advanced settings, instead of saying in adapter type: NVIDIA® GeForce® G 310M, it says intel GMA or something.

He sent it back to the store to check if something was wrong and they told him the machine was ok, and it only had vga card output.

I wonder if that's truth or something is wrong with the notebook.

Thank you in advance.

 

how did u guys "test"?

Nvidia optimus technology allows the Dedicated graphic card to be powered down, allowing battery saving. Only when u run games or certain graphic demanding programmes, will it den be activated.

If u are experiencing problem with gaming, u can force the application to run with Nvidia under the Nvidia control panel, or simply right clicking on the .exe and selecting the appropriate gfx.

 

This is interesting because I had to disable gpu acceleration in my internet settings to get IE9 to display anything more than blank web pages. Is the GPU turned on for basic web browsing, our just sites with Flash, etc.? Firefox did not have this issue btw.

 

@Bosty maybe it was that, well he tested with WoW on full graphics and AA x8 or x4 not sure and he said he had performance issues.

Oh and he told me when he did a dxdiag it showed only the intel card not the nvidia one. I'll tell him to give me a screen of dxdiag.

 

@dlxro: running dxdiag would only show the the intel card, even with the game running. The best way to know whether Nvidia is running is through ur FPS. but from wad i know the Intel HD gfx for sandy bridge are almost equivalent to GT 310m in terms of benchmark score. But not too sure about ur first gen i5/7 processor.

Another way to know, is through one of the later version of Optimus driver (that's if u can update it to the latest, most laptops have that issue). If u can, there would be an additional icon in ur taskbar that shows whether Nvidia GPU is active or not.

In my case, Asus u41sv, i'm unable to update my driver to see that. So, i went to 'Windows Gadget', search 'GPU temp". It will show u ur GPU temp, clock speed and RAM usage. Pretty straightforward, if it's inactive, it would be at idle temp, and the graph would not even move. Give it a go and run ur games, u would clearly see the GPU graph spike upwards.

@BMWBig: If ur GPU is optimus capable, it should be inactive during light-usage *eg, internet browsing, MS office. My understanding is that Flash apps wouldn't even activate it.

When u disable ur Nvidia GPU IE 9 works? that's odd. Do u get a really only a blank page, or some other errors such as "server not found", "page unable to connect" etc.?

 

Hmm I'll try to tell my friend to run wow with fps, but still...
My asus shows the dedi card:


And his show this:


or this:


I think it should display the dedi video card instead of intel one :S

 

If you go to the control panel > hardware and sound there should an entry for the nvidia control panel.

Also in the system tray there should an icon for the Nvidia GPU activity.

Also if I go to my screen resolution and look at the properties I get the Intel HD Graphics properties window and not an Nvidia window, and with the FPS i get in games I am sure my 310m is running and not the intel graphics

 

Ok, what my friend now wants to know if he could disable the intel integrated and let only the nvidia card run.

[Edit]
Does wow run well with AA 8x24?
I don't have wow and I don't play it, he says his frames drop a lot when he sets 8x24, still he don't get his notebook is not a gaming notebook, but still I want to make sure that 8x24 lag that notebook.

 

@dlxro: Ur laptops GTS 360m is not Optimus enabled, hence it pretty much works like the old conventional way of overruling ur onboard GPU. his 310m though, is optimus enabled.

310M is not a very strong graphic, as i mentioned it's benchmark scores are slightly above Intel HD sandy bridge's. So most 3D games would probably run under 30FPS for medium settings. I'm not sure with WoW too, but 8x24 AA seems a little high, right?

Wads his Nvidia driver version? Also, i dun think it's possible to turn off the integrated GPU. That's the problem with Optimus... Pretty unpopular support from Nvidia

 

Yes, I came across this workaround by searching google for my IE9 problem. There were several hits with this solution and the problem was not specific to any brand computer.