Players experiencing issues related to Graphics cards
By
1xtab,
Posted on: 2010-04-28 17:47 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Quote:
The hybrid cards were conceived as a 'performance enhancer" so that the laptop would save on battery power/usage when not doing graphically intensive stuff. From the sounds of it, this sort of setup seems to balk at City for some reason. Likely because it's not switching to the nVidia chip fast enough.|
Originally Posted by DustyFarrell
I do????? I had no idea. I assumed the nVidia card handled everything. Hmm...time to go digging through obscure control panels and seeing if there is some way to force it to choose the nVidia card.
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If you find a setting in the software, then by all means post the details so that others with similar chipsets have something to go by!
Quote:
I wonder if they are treated as separate cards by the system?|
Originally Posted by WanderingAries
The hybrid cards were conceived as a 'performance enhancer" so that the laptop would save on battery power/usage when not doing graphically intensive stuff. From the sounds of it, this sort of setup seems to balk at City for some reason. Likely because it's not switching to the nVidia chip fast enough.
If you find a setting in the software, then by all means post the details so that others with similar chipsets have something to go by! |
That would probably mean there is a setting to choose which card is used for the default, but it would likely deactivate the power saving hybrid system.
I don't have one to test my idea, but I am guessing that would be a possible answer.
Quote:
Incidentally. I'm running a Sony VAIO S, customized at order, with an AMD Radeon™ HD 6630M (1GB VRAM) hybrid graphics, and the Intel i7-2620M processor (2.70GHz) with Turbo Boost up to 3.40GHz and the Intel HD 3000 graphics (yes, I did just C&P that).|
Originally Posted by T_Immortalus
I wonder if they are treated as separate cards by the system?
That would probably mean there is a setting to choose which card is used for the default, but it would likely deactivate the power saving hybrid system. I don't have one to test my idea, but I am guessing that would be a possible answer. |
Now, the laptop I have has this SUPER NEAT (/sarcasm) toggle switch to change from "Stamina" to "Speed" settings - which changes my setup (among other things, most likely) to run from the embedded Intel HD3000 chip (Stamina) to the Radeon graphics card (Speed).
As I am thus able to easily swap between the two, I have. Many times. And I've found that while the Radeon runs it marginally better, graphically speaking, it crashes my game. Not the computer. Not the OS. Nothing except the game. And it doesn't just crash, it just... stops. Audio starts to loop and the graphics are locked onscreen. Usually happens in the last level of an incarnate trial or during loading screens. I pull up the prog. manager, kill the process, and reboot. Which is no biggie, considering my load time is RIDICULOUSLY fast.
Now, with the embedded Intel GPU... my game... runs wonderfully. It gets SLIGHTLY hotter on the underside of the laptop than it does when running the Radeon, but nothing the fan I bought to play COH on my Gateway FX can't handle, and even without the fan, I've never overheated (with either running - the crash problem is NOT an overheat, unless somehow the card is overheating without transmitting any heat to the bottom of the PC). Wonderfully being, without crashing while I'm trying to shard it up. Graphically speaking, however, I CAN run it hard, but I don't. I keep my graphics settings on "recommended" because I don't want to feel like crap every time it freezes - you know the feeling. The "really. really? I paid for this... and it just kicked me out of UG during the infested warbot battle? REALLY? My team just died? WTFXBBQ." feeling you get when your computer doesn't perform the way you wish it would.
So I play. With an embedded Intel HD3000 GPU. Disabling the Radeon. Because that's my "hotfix" - I can't void my warranty (if I wanted to do that, I wouldn't have paid for one) and the ONLY driver updates available have to come through Sony (thanks, hybrid graphics technology! THANK YOU SO MUCH!) and considering their customer service when I had an issue with my MS install, there are not going to BE any new drivers any time soon.
If this sheds light on anything, for anyone, or helps someone else reach a conclusion about the dilemma that people seem to be having with integrated/hybrid graphics, I'm glad.
Also, someone please tell my why, oh why, did my buttons disappear from the LFG queue on my 50 incarnate but not on any of my other toons? Is it deliberate? A hint: "Please don't try to star any more iTrials, you're awful." No, but is anyone else having weirdness since the release? My buttons are suddenly all black... Selectable, but who knows what's on, what's off, or what trial I'll be sending my league into when I try to take some folks down into DD. And sometimes, if I enter a full screen UI, it shows up in the water reflections. And in UG and some missions, I get... I can't even describe it. I keep moving, but it's like a motion blur... frames are locking on certain moving parts, or something... it's... it's bizarre. Sometimes it goes away, usually when I move to a new... place...
.......... When it comes right down to it, I'll build a desktop eventually for the sole purpose of COH. But for now, it'd be nice if Sony would please update my drivers, and if my buttons would come back. But I'm not sure if that's a PIBCAK error or... it probably is. ><
Well crashing the game using the AMD chip sounds like a driver problem. Sadly IIRC Sony customizes their graphics drivers so you can't simply grab and install one of the AMD drivers that we know that works well with the game, at least better.
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Before going too far down the rabbit hole, how about just disabling the Intel Grahpics (surely there is a setting in BIOS) and using only the nVidia GPU for a few test sessions?
Just came back after about 9 months off the game and now it is lagging me to death. Here are some number I gathered. I hope someone can give me a hand.
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Mod files in the Data directory
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Greetings fellow Heroes!
I'm going to throw this question in this forum because it seems to be graphics related.
I'm having what seems to be a relatively silly issue where the game runs flawlessly at max and whatever the game wants to throw at it while playing, except for only two seemingly miniscule things that cause the game to lock up, and requires a ctrl alt del in order to kill CoH process to rectify.
The contacts window (or tabbing the contacts window) and the actual character login screen (characters do not load and game locks at the screen for the characters, with the store buttons etc at the top of the screen, but majority is blank, no character list or images).
Answer ID 8040 | Published 05/04/2011 06:52 PM | Updated 01/30/2012 01:25 PM
That ^ discusses the issue with the contacts window, turning down the two graphical settings does not seem to completely fix either issue.
Of course the other option given about rolling back drivers to the 197.XX series is a bit nuts now considering how far ahead the drivers are now since January, and other games and sims obviously require the latest drivers.
So....any updates to this since 1/30/12 that it will be rectified any time soon? Or any other tips?
I'm running a MSI N460GTX CYCLONE 1GD5/OC GeForce GTX 460 on my rig, just tried most recent driver update and did not resolve. Other rig in the house is running a ASUS ENGTX550 TI DC/DI/1GD5 GeForce GTX 550 Ti and is NOT having this issue.
Thanks in advance!
-KoA
I'd recommend seeing if you can get updated drivers for both your Intel chipset (both board and video) as well as the latest nVidia drivers.
This might help stabilize your performance.
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