Acer Laptop: Switchable Graphics using i7 & AMD Radeon

Hi everyone greetings from TURKEY

i have a packard bell ls 44 nearly same with acer 7750 g my notebook specs intel core i5-2430m , 8 gb ddr3 ram and amd radeon hd 6650m 2 gb Vram

i found this forum on the net and Daily checked about the graphic problem and i was very very upset since i bought this notebook bcs im an architect and i bought this notebook for portatable condition for drawing but i never played very well solitare really i was very upset and angry about this computer big 1.73 LCD White color nice estethics but no cad programs just smart for play solitare then suddenly i saw the bios update and finally i solved my problem

and i registered for to thank everyone this is really great forum and im very happy to found this forum

thanks thanks thanks again

by the way screen birghtness working only on the power saver gpu when i select the high performance gpu birghtness not working

thanks again :) i want to hug my pc and i can sleep with it :)

brightness working only when selected intel gpu (energy saver gpu ) when the battery mode on balanced

Day 2 on this BIOS and well I've had some minor issues..

I have the High perf GPU selected via CCC..

From time to time..VLC lags a bit, or goes into black screen..Google Chrome today froze on me, and came back, but the graphics on the screen looked very weird..

Laptop is running a bit warmer, but I guess that's expected..

But good news:
I'm running L4D2 on max settings and its perfect! BF3 on High settings perfect! MW3 as well! So..I guess I'll have to keep testing it out to see.

Lak3rsFan said:

Day 2 on this BIOS and well I've had some minor issues..

I have the High perf GPU selected via CCC..

From time to time..VLC lags a bit, or goes into black screen..Google Chrome today froze on me, and came back, but the graphics on the screen looked very weird..

Laptop is running a bit warmer, but I guess that's expected..

But good news:
I'm running L4D2 on max settings and its perfect! BF3 on High settings perfect! MW3 as well! So..I guess I'll have to keep testing it out to see.

Hmm, VLC seems to be working fine here and I use FireFox which I've not had any problems with.
A bit warmer with the high power card of course. I just switch back to power saving GPU when I don't need the ATI card. That is the great thing about this. I'm so glad to be able to do it finally.

Yes, I'm grateful for it, I'm still testing it out, could've just been a glitch in the files I was watching (which was the case because I went back to the Intel) and the Chrome issue could've been just because it was overloaded (Med student here, I usually have about 10-15 tabs open!)

Now I just need to know how to overlock this processor lol..

BTW: Popeye, noticed you have the same laptop as me, did you use the second HD bay? I wanna figure out how I can go about shaving the back part of the panel. Tried putting my SSD in there, but the parts of the panel that goes to the back of the laptop hit it .

Lak3rsFan said:

Now I just need to know how to overlock this processor lol..

BTW: Popeye, noticed you have the same laptop as me, did you use the second HD bay? I wanna figure out how I can go about shaving the back part of the panel. Tried putting my SSD in there, but the parts of the panel that goes to the back of the laptop hit it .

I believe I saw a special panel online for sale. Try searching.
Which drivers are you using? I'm using latest leshcat and they work great.

I don't believe I'm leshcat, how would I check that?

You would know because you have to download from his site and go through some steps to delete old drivers.
What date does your drivers show in device manager? Mine shows 3/8/2012.

His site is here: leshcat blog IT Tips & Tricks: Catalyst 12.3 WHQL UnifL for Switchable Graphics

Be sure to follow the steps in his manual if you load them.