Hi There,
I recently bought the Genesis IV laptop over the Xenon for the GeForce 630M graphics however I noticed that several games run a lot slower than they should, for example, reviews of the card state it should be able to run Skyrim on medium graphics quite comfortably however it runs incredibly sluggish and is only playable on low graphics (The laptop itself has 4GB RAM and an i7 CPU so isn't exactly slow).
After a big of investigation I've noticed that the Laptop is using the integrated graphics built in to it's i7 2640M CPU however I'm having trouble getting the laptop to use the nVidia card instead of the integrated graphics.
I've checked in the BIOS but can't see anything in there to configure the display, I've tried using the nVidia/Intel control panels to set which card should be used and I've tried uninstalling/disabling the entry for the Intel card in Device Manager but still no luck.
Currently I've got card disabled and have installed the nVidia drivers but no application is detecting a GPU, suggesting it's using standard Windows VGA drivers and not the nVidia drivers.
Has anyone got any suggestions on how to do this?
I haven't opened the laptop up to check the motherboard model as I don't want to risk voiding my warranty - I know that with the desktop versions of these CPU's you have two basic types of motherboards, the H series and the P series, H using on-board graphics and not supporting external graphics card and the P series not supporting onboard graphics but using the PCI-E graphics card, would this be the same with the laptop iterations and something worth looking in to? I would assume that if PC Specialist are selling a laptop which comes with an external graphics card as standard they would use the correct motherboard type to support it...
Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
I recently bought the Genesis IV laptop over the Xenon for the GeForce 630M graphics however I noticed that several games run a lot slower than they should, for example, reviews of the card state it should be able to run Skyrim on medium graphics quite comfortably however it runs incredibly sluggish and is only playable on low graphics (The laptop itself has 4GB RAM and an i7 CPU so isn't exactly slow).
After a big of investigation I've noticed that the Laptop is using the integrated graphics built in to it's i7 2640M CPU however I'm having trouble getting the laptop to use the nVidia card instead of the integrated graphics.
I've checked in the BIOS but can't see anything in there to configure the display, I've tried using the nVidia/Intel control panels to set which card should be used and I've tried uninstalling/disabling the entry for the Intel card in Device Manager but still no luck.
Currently I've got card disabled and have installed the nVidia drivers but no application is detecting a GPU, suggesting it's using standard Windows VGA drivers and not the nVidia drivers.
Has anyone got any suggestions on how to do this?
I haven't opened the laptop up to check the motherboard model as I don't want to risk voiding my warranty - I know that with the desktop versions of these CPU's you have two basic types of motherboards, the H series and the P series, H using on-board graphics and not supporting external graphics card and the P series not supporting onboard graphics but using the PCI-E graphics card, would this be the same with the laptop iterations and something worth looking in to? I would assume that if PC Specialist are selling a laptop which comes with an external graphics card as standard they would use the correct motherboard type to support it...
Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.