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    Battlefield 3: Problem Switching to Graphics Card

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by shawncaution, Jul 10, 2012.

  1. shawncaution

    shawncaution Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just bought BF3, I currently whitelisted it and made sure my battery performance was on High, I even load up by right clicking "run with graphic processor>high performance". I have GPU-Z loaded and after playing it for 5 minutes the integrated goes from 50 to 70 and the graphics card temp stays the same(at 50). It's not running on the graphics card and I don't know a solution on how to fix this. Anybody else have this issue and know how to fix it?

    I don't know if it's because when you load BF3- a browser pops up and you have to quick match or whatever to load battlefield up. Also, the stock drivers are the only drivers that are for the new M17xR4, there isn't any new drivers only BETA(s). The only way I get it to run on my graphics card is when I FN+F7 to shut down my cpu and load only my graphics card to play it and I really don't wanna have to deal with doing that everytime I wanna play BF3. I took a screenshot- ( http://i47.tinypic.com/4pwmk3.jpg)


    I have M17xR4- 660M, 8gb, i7-3610.
    Nvidia Driver Version: 296.39
     
    shawncaution, Jul 10, 2012
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    shawncaution Notebook Enthusiast

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    Not 1 person knows or has had to deal with this situation?..I just wanna fix the issue.
     
    shawncaution, Jul 11, 2012
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    HTWingNut Potato

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    I'd recommend going to the Alienware forums on this site as you're likely to find users that have managed this issue before.
     
    HTWingNut, Jul 11, 2012
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    darxide_sorcerer Notebook Deity

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    are you trying to play Battlefield 3 while running the laptop on battery?
     
    darxide_sorcerer, Jul 11, 2012
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