Graphics card not being chosen

[StealthyDaz]

So, my laptop has a AMD R5 M430 linked graphics card that has 2gb of dedicated graphics but whenever I play any games the primary graphics card (R5 with 500mb) gets chosen instead.

I have went into the AMD control centre and selected 'optimized for performance' for all settings related to games.

Any help as to how I can select the other card would be helpful

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Full Specs please.

Use CPU-Z for SPECCY and share the specs via their Validate or Publish options.

[StealthyDaz]

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

Full Specs please.

Use CPU-Z for SPECCY and share the specs via their Validate or Publish options.

http://speccy.piriform.com/results/6DjW3XnhSBerlEdlmXtUOog

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Set the Games via "Per Application"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR5IIFlkTtY

[StealthyDaz]

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

Set the Games via "Per Application"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR5IIFlkTtY

I tried this with many games but with no luck

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Then wipe out all AMD Drivers and redo them fresh.
Your Win10 is also outdated; 1703 instead of 1709

[StealthyDaz]

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

Then wipe out all AMD Drivers and redo them fresh.
Your Win10 is also outdated; 1703 instead of 1709

Okay this I thoight worked but it still uses the wrong card

[CravenCoyote]

People often don't want to use on-board graphics. Why not just remove the 500mb card?

[StealthyDaz]

Originally posted by Elk Cloner:

People often don't want to use on-board graphics. Why not just remove the 500mb card?

Should've mentioned im using a laptop

[CravenCoyote]

Your laptop has two graphics cards? That's odd... If they came built-in, my next suggestion would be to go into BIOS and disable the card you don't want.

[StealthyDaz]

Originally posted by Elk Cloner:

Your laptop has two graphics cards? That's odd... If they came built-in, my next suggestion would be to go into BIOS and disable the card you don't want.

There was only an option of UMA or the switchable graphics and I’m not sure that UMA is the beat idea

[CravenCoyote]

Ah, one of those things.

Ok, other option - disable it in Windows?

Right click on Start menu, go to 'Device Manager'. From the list, open up 'Display Adapters'. Can you disable the one you don't want from there?

[StealthyDaz]

Originally posted by Elk Cloner:

Ah, one of those things.

Ok, other option - disable it in Windows?

Right click on Start menu, go to 'Device Manager'. From the list, open up 'Display Adapters'. Can you disable the one you don't want from there?

It seems as if the card isn’t kicking in at all, I disabled the card that I didn’t want and the other card did no work at all, I ran a game and it was complete potato


If it helps at all the non dedicated card is labeled as primary and then other dedicated card is labeled as ‘linked’

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The Dedicated GPU in Laptop never is the Primary, it's Secondary.
The Primary GPU is still required to use as a frame-buffer.
Please do not mess with the GPUs via Device Manager.

Honestly, I don't think that Laptop actually has two GPUs, pretty sure it is just 1x R5 series GPU.
It doesn't make any sense that the dedicated one is also an R5, the same as the onboard one. Now if the onboard was R5 and dedicated was R7; that would make alot more sense.

[StealthyDaz]

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

The Dedicated GPU in Laptop never is the Primary, it's Secondary.
The Primary GPU is still required to use as a frame-buffer.
Please do not mess with the GPUs via Device Manager.

Honestly, I don't think that Laptop actually has two GPUs, pretty sure it is just 1x R5 series GPU.
It doesn't make any sense that the dedicated one is also an R5, the same as the onboard one. Now if the onboard was R5 and dedicated was R7; that would make alot more sense.

Yes there is only one R5 GPU, due to the fact that the cards are the same, could my laptop get confused as to which one to use?

Should I go to AMD and send them a quick email?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

AMD wont support you in any ways: its up to the Laptop maker to support the end-user.
Sometimes getting GPU Drivers directly from AMD may not work, AMD even warns users of this. Try wiping everything AMD using the DDU App via Safe Mode; then after the cleaning; reboot and download and install the latest AMD Driver from your Laptop maker directly, per your actual Laptop model.

Also please try viewing the GPU specs via GPU-Z
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-gpu-z
And see if there are two difference Device ID# for two GPUs. As it might just be one actual GPU in that laptop and not two. If only one, then this is fairly simple case of your apps/games always are using the correct GPU and what performance you see is all you're ever going to get on that Laptop when it comes to raw CPU/GPU based performance.