Anyone Playing Fornite with AMD Firepro 6100 Card (if so, how?)?

Hi,
I thought I'd check out Fortnite for a bit of distraction.

I have a Dell Precision M6800 workstation,with Intel Core i7 4800, 16GB RAM using a AMD Firepro 6100 graphics card, on Windows 10. All drivers etc are up to date. The machine is 4 yrs old and I got it new.

But either the card doesn't like Fortnite, or Fortnite doesn't like the graphics card -- either way, I'm getting massive 'lag-like' effects, where the game stutters, jumps and freezes, more and more until it just freezes. Never completely, but enough to make it impossible to play. Sound does the same thing, more or less.

I've done all I can with the Fortnite settings -- set to low, low fps (tried 60 and 30), low graphics, low everything. No change AT ALL.

I read a random post somewhere that the AMD Firepro 6100 with the current drivers is incompatible, and the guy rolled his drivers back to June 2017 to get it to work. Although that guy thought it was a broader issue with games using the Unreal Engine platform.

Strange thing, as of today, when I opened Fortnite I got the message:
Warning: known issues with graphics driver.
The installed AMD Graphics Driver has known issues
AMD Radeon HD 8950
Installed: Adrenalin 18.5.1
Recommended: 18.3.3

Whch is stange because that's NOT my GD - Mine's a AMD Firepro 6100, not a Radeon HD 8950
-- so maybe Epic Games have a more general issue with AMD Graphics Cards?

I know my card isn't built for games, but I read the specs required for Fortnite, and it seems they don't need a ton of them so, in theory, it should be able to handle Fortnite at low-medium settings. But it can't.

Anyone got any experience with this?
Anyone got any ideas?

It's not the end of the world, but it would be nice to try this game out!
Thanks!

 

The card is fine, while it is the m6100 its also known as the 8950m and its reporting that way due to the Hardware ID AMD put on that card.

Just try out the recommended drivers and see how it flies.

tl;dr

m6100 = HD 8950m

 

Hi,
thanks for your suggestion -- I didn't know it ws the same card!

BUT I just tried that and it didn't make any difference

 

Fortnite doesn't like AMD drivers, try rolling back to 17.1 if you can

 

I played it with this card in the m18x r2 and it run really good. Fortnite will recommend the driver when you load the game.

 

The newest driver seems to have fixed it, I was having issues playing it with my Fury X and M6100, but all of them are fixed. I can even do a benchmark if you want