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    is Radeon 3200 "blocking" main gpu or something ?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by turilas, Jan 27, 2010.

  1. turilas

    turilas Notebook Enthusiast

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    Im having little problem in laptop because that radeon 3200 should be power saving gpu and main gpu that radeon 4570.

    apps what use and select:
    3dmark recognize radeon 4570 and use it but get only about 800 points lol

    and apps what doesnt use or sometimes use:
    -Crysis (stuck alot with minimum settings) , Sins of Solar Empire run with minimum settings and pause helps, GTAIV run fine when all possible is off and other at minimum, and rest of games what i have played use that radeon 3200.

    Im running at Windows 7 and i had same problem at Vista too with latest asus drivers.
     
  2. Amnesiac

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    If it helps, you could try disabling the 3200 in the BIOS, and see if that works. 3DMark06 must be using the 3200, not the 4570 as you say, because the 4570 should be getting over 4000.
     
  3. turilas

    turilas Notebook Enthusiast

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    there was power express mode on so i changed it to dGpu mode and now 3dmark wont start lol any ideas ? :D
    Now came new thing, in 3dmark and SoSE got directx error :D
    and in 3dmark first and second test ran at 2-4 fps yet.
     
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    turilas Notebook Enthusiast

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    problem not yet solved, 3dmark finally done tests and got 2955 points with 4570...
    sorry for bump
     
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    turilas Notebook Enthusiast

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    any solutions yet for this ? :D
     
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    That is normal

    You have the DDR2 version of the HD4570 and not the GDDR3 which gets over 4000 in 3dmarks06

    Try turning off powerplay in your ATI settings to see if its helps it should make it use the HD4570 and not the HD3200
     
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    turilas Notebook Enthusiast

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    but it is really weird for me because radeon 4530 with ddr2 vram beat that and this haven't never got ati settings control panel.
     
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    Probably because the 4530 was using better drivers.
     
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    turilas Notebook Enthusiast

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    found 9.12 catalyst and installed it but really weird because 3dmark doesnt get more than 3000 points but games run really fast with medium settings lol so i think this is kinda solved. i think :D
    error was D3DERR_NOTAVAILABLE.