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September 18th, 2011 07:00
Vostro 3450 disabling i5 gpu
Hello Everyone,
I recently bought a new Dell Vostro 3450 ATI HD6630, it come with i5 2410 CPU which has an embedded GPU.
When I try to install ATI's latest drivers, it won't recognize the HD6630 and the installer quits. I have problems with running games on it because of the Intel embedded GPU.
The intel GPU SUCKS and i would like to disable it and never turn it back on.
I want only the ATI to be working.
How do i do it ?, I'm getting really frustrated :emotion-6:
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ejn63
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September 18th, 2011 08:00
You cannot disable the Intel GPU. It is part of the system processor. The drivers for the ATI video chip must come from Dell - you cannot use the ATI Catalyst drivers.
DELL-Terry B
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September 23rd, 2011 14:00
Noamriemer
You should be able to go into the AMD Vision Control Center and manually select the AMD GPU over the Intel HD graphics integrated into the processor.
Enabling Switchable Graphics
To enable switchable graphics open AMD Vision Engine Control Center
Click on Preference.
Click Advanced View.
Then click on Power -> Switchable Graphics Method
Select the graphics processor based on application needs
Click on Switchable Graphics under the power tab. In the middle of the main window there is an application list.
You can set/change each application to be run on integrated GPU (will show "Power Saving" in green) or discrete GPU (will show "High Performance" in red). You can also add applications here.
Please understand that if you are playing Open GL based games you will have problems with even the AMD GPU as they currently doesn't support Open GL.
Please look to the following link regarding Open GL and AMD switchable graphics.
en.community.dell.com/.../19381585.aspx
TB
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September 29th, 2011 22:00
Thank you Terry, for the link to the related thread. So there exist new BIOS versions for the Vostro 3350 and 3550. An update for the 3450 would be nice too. If I remember right the 3450 and 3550 have basically the same hardware. When can we expect such an update?
DELL-Terry B
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September 30th, 2011 10:00
Engineering is currently working on the new BIOS for the 3450, it should be released early October.
TB