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    Envy 15 3000, HD7690m switchable graphics working/original driver?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by dave.ladner, Nov 22, 2012.

  1. dave.ladner

    dave.ladner Notebook Evangelist

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    Does anybody have the original driver, or a driver that allows me to choose my switchable graphics with the Envy 15 3000?

    I recently updated my graphics driver, not remembering that it disables the ability to choose the switchable graphics (or even open the ATI Catalyst Control Center at all...), and I'm just wondering if anyone has a download link to the original driver or a driver that will allow me to switch between it still.

    I don't even really want to switch for anything specific, I just want it to run on the HD Intel card when on battery, and use the HD7690m when plugged in always. I believe this is referred to as Fixed Mode in the BIOS, which I can change. Is there any way to tell if that's actually what is happening though? With my old driver I could right click on desktop and choose "Choose switchable graphics', and it would show me which is being used. Now it just says I don't have compatible AMD hardware or driver installed.

    In device manager it used to show up as a Radeon 6xxxM Series driver, but now it shows up as the proper card Radeon 7690M, but switchable doesn't work.

    Fix anyone?
     
    dave.ladner, Nov 22, 2012
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  2. Jorel

    Jorel Notebook Enthusiast

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    Sorry nvm I am on the wrong forum

    Not relevant ****The only thing that allow me to switch between my graphics (fn+f7) is having OSD installed, I ran the latest from dell site and it is working fine****
     
    Jorel, Nov 22, 2012
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  3. dave.ladner

    dave.ladner Notebook Evangelist

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    Turns out the latest drivers that "support" switchable graphics, or at least the ATI Catalyst Center interface for it, are the 12.3 AMD Drivers.

    A link can be found in this thread on the last post on this page: http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-...ers-hp-envy-15-3xxx-envy-17-3xxx-intel-8.html

    Please note these arent the most up-to-date drivers, they are just the latest ones that I've found that allow my laptop (Envy 15 3000) to recognize and open the ATI Catalyst Center and show me the switchable graphics interface. I can't confirm or deny that switchable graphics do/do not actually work without this interface, I just like to know and see which it's using.
     
    dave.ladner, Nov 22, 2012
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