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Dell inspiron 5521 graphics card help
Hi, i recently bought a dell inspiron 5521 Windows 8 Pro 64bit 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3517U processor (4M Cache, up to 3.00 GHz)
It has 2 graphics cards...
AMD RADEON HD 8730M
INTEL(R) HD Graphics 4000
I use the laptop for playing games
I have red that its supposed to automatically switch between the 2 cards for the best 1 which is obviously the AMD card
but it doesnt seem to switch, it is only using the INTEL card
Anybody no how i can change it to use the AMD RADEON card?
DELL-Sujatha K
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April 2nd, 2013 06:00
Hi undead22,
Displays are always exposed to the OS through integrated graphics (Intel graphics 4000). This is the reason it will always show as Intel Graphics 4000 is in use. There is no physical connection between AMD GPU and the display screen. All graphic intensive processes are done by the AMD Radeon HD 8730M graphics card and passed on to the application through the Intel HD Graphics 4000. This is the way the system is designed to function.
Use the switchable graphics control panel to choose which GPU each application uses.
Revert for further queries.
alenz dell
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June 2nd, 2013 03:00
Recently I have bought inspiron 5521 and it has radeon graphics...How can I know it is working.
ejn63
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June 2nd, 2013 03:00
See above. You use the switching graphics control panel to choose the video chip used on a per-application basis.
kholi42
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January 17th, 2014 20:00
i can't even installed games on my dell inspiron 5521.. wat the hell on earth is this??? any chance to upgrades my graphic card??
ejn63
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January 18th, 2014 03:00
No, the video chip cannot be upgraded, though most (not all) games will run. This isn't a high performance gaming system - you may have to run at reduced video settings.
Jitendra.bankar
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January 22nd, 2014 11:00
hi i have a new laptop dell inspiron 15r 5521 i installed amd radeon graphics card but when i switch the games in high performance mode the games are running verry slow.....plz help
Storm999
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February 8th, 2014 00:00
Hi... i just got one.....
On desktop right click and select switchable graphics... when it opens choose the application or game and change it to high performance under drop down menu... by default it will be on power saving..
It will work for sure....
danielcentea
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February 9th, 2014 09:00
I have the same problem, on Windows 8.1 - switchable graphics DO NOT WORK. It must be a driver error. And you, DELL lazy-asses didn't bother solving this problem for a long time now !!
Anonymous
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August 7th, 2014 22:00
Same problem
Raghavendra_rag
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February 20th, 2015 18:00
how to use switchable graphic control panel? help....
Ahad_hussaini
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April 29th, 2015 17:00
my windows 8.1 graphics shows ziro what should i do ? please help me
Mahesh Kumar Ba
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April 30th, 2015 16:00
I understood thank you :)
santoshtupsy
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October 18th, 2017 23:00
downloads.dell.com/.../Video_Driver_HGDMD_WN32_15.200.1045_A00.EXE