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    Issues with P170EM + HD 8970m

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Kingpinzero, Jan 17, 2016.

  1. Kingpinzero

    Kingpinzero ROUND ONE,FIGHT! You Win!

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    Hi guys,
    Ive got this laptop second hand, great condition and barely used.
    The previous owner used to play a few games and he was still on windows 8.

    Yesterday i tried to install win 10, it went fine and smooth, but the gpu couldnt load up due to resource error, ive tried every possible fix and combo but without success.

    Ive installed then win8.1 from scratch, everything smooth as silk, but althought the gpu is installed, it seems that no matter what i launch, the intel gpu takes over it always.

    Im running latest intel and amd drivers, actually they auto updated with amd tool, but it seems i dont have a way to switch to Radeon GPU in right click context menu, the previous owner told me he used to do this to force the gpu.

    Ive been always an nvidia guy, optimus works the same with right click, but since i dont have said option i dunno what i have to do.

    If someone can shred some light about how it works, if amd changed the switching to automatic, it would help alot.
    MSI Afterburner OSD picks 0mhz on GPU1 and shows the second gpu with 7% of usage always.

    Thank you alot.
     
    Kingpinzero, Jan 17, 2016
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