dual graphic cards and ultra settings

**Bartolomeo XIII** · August 21, 2013, 05:37 AM

so, are there any news about the eventual restrictions on ultra settings caused by dual graphic cards? I had this problem with Shogun 2.

**A Barbarian** · August 21, 2013, 06:23 AM

What? Can you explain this a little?

**Bartolomeo XIII** · August 21, 2013, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by A Barbarian

What? Can you explain this a little?

well in Shogun 2 the graphic settings menu displays only my Intel HD Graphic Card, instead switching to Radeon 7670, and because of that I am unable to set the ultra setting for example : unit detail, textures etc

**Epic28** · August 21, 2013, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by Bartolomeo XIII

well in Shogun 2 the graphic settings menu displays only my Intel HD Graphic Card, instead switching to Radeon 7670, and because of that I am unable to set the ultra setting for example : unit detail, textures etc

Is this only for Shogun? Does your Crossfire setup show up for other games?

**Bartolomeo XIII** · August 21, 2013, 10:53 AM

I had it with Skyrim also, but the weird thing is that the overall performance is good, and it seems that it uses the better card. But on the preference settings level the game recognise only the HD card. I had the same problem on my older laptop with nvidia card, but I was able to set it to work manually in the pref file, but this fix doesn't work on the new one. As far as I remember this was done by one of the S2 patches, so I am wandering if the upcoming title will have the same issue

**Dominian** · August 21, 2013, 10:26 AM

Why don't you just do it manually in the preferences files?

**Epic28** · August 21, 2013, 11:00 AM

What does you display setting say on your desktop? Radeon 7670 or Intel Integrated GFX or whatever?

Sounds like your card setup isn't install properly or you need to update the driver.

**Bartolomeo XIII** · August 21, 2013, 11:29 AM

Originally Posted by Epic28

What does you display setting say on your desktop? Radeon 7670 or Intel Integrated GFX or whatever?

Sounds like your card setup isn't install properly or you need to update the driver.

it shows intel HD graphic 4000

**.Mitch.** · August 21, 2013, 12:22 PM

Yeh this is your problem not the games. When I first set up my 670 a lot of things were showing as if I had no graphics card at all! After updating drivers and setting some stuff in the control panel it started showing up.

**Bartolomeo XIII** · August 21, 2013, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by .Mitch.

Yeh this is your problem not the games. When I first set up my 670 a lot of things were showing as if I had no graphics card at all! After updating drivers and setting some stuff in the control panel it started showing up.

ok,thanks I will try the drivers update

**talljoe** · August 21, 2013, 12:31 PM

I've used SLI in both NTW and S2TW, never any issues. The only real issue with 2x GPUs is that you're likely to run into a CPU bottleneck long before the GPUs are using their full power.

**eskil** · August 21, 2013, 01:12 PM

are you using a laptop with integrated card?? beause you could try to set in the bios the switching from automatic to fixed!!

In this way you choose what card to use from the control pannel. If not its the bios that switch the graphic card when needed

**Heinz Guderian** · August 21, 2013, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by Bartolomeo XIII

ok,thanks I will try the drivers update

there all several workarounds/fixes for this. but try the 13.8 Beta 2 drivers first. then SHUTDOWN, not restart. Shutdown, wait a few seconds then hit your power button. the switchable graphics feature should start and stay there so long as you dont restart (hibernate or shutdown is ok)

but this may not help your "auto-detect" system settings i'm afraid. i may still pick up the intel card. you will still probably need to go into Catalyst Control Centre> power settings> switchable graphics application settings> select Rome2TW.exe or Shogun2TW.exe> set as high performance.

Originally Posted by talljoe

I've used SLI in both NTW and S2TW, never any issues. The only real issue with 2x GPUs is that you're likely to run into a CPU bottleneck long before the GPUs are using their full power.

i think he means switchable graphics/dual graphics not Xfire or SLI. one integrated card with one dedicated card.

**Adreno** · August 21, 2013, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by Heinz Guderian

i think he means switchable graphics/dual graphics not Xfire or SLI. one integrated card with one dedicated card.

nah he mentions having an intel chip

**karamazovmm** · August 22, 2013, 06:46 AM

Originally Posted by Adreno

nah he mentions having an intel chip

heinz is right, for a moment I thought it was just one of asymmetric crossfire that you can do with the igpu of the amd cpu, and the dgpu (needs to be amd)

but its just a matter of the switchable gpus not working properly, he may not suffer from the underutilisation problem due to the gpu being the 6770m rebadged as the 7670m