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Re: SSD graphics settings? said by Gordo74:said by 59137280:I am thinking alsi this may something to do with Intel Display Driver. before SSD I always used AMD catalyst drivers and now there is on my system Intel Graphics and Media Control Panel, which I never had before. And I have trouble installing AMD Catalyst video driver
This is the real issue. Your video card's drivers are not installed. You need to install them for your video card. This has nothing to do with the SSD and more to do with an improper setup after a fresh install of Windows. I installed and reinstalled my usual AMD Catalyst driver about a dozen times! It keeps showing in Device Manager under Display adapters as Intel HD 3000 and giving warnings after installation of Catalyst. I tried Driver Sweeper, uninstall/reinstall video drivers, reinstalled windows twice already last night, what do I do?
The fresh windows was clean installed on new SSD, I used my usual mobo disk to install Intel graphics first, as usual, but I never had this Intel Graphics Control Panel before.
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 KrisnatharokCaveat EmptorPremium
join:2009-02-11
Earth Orbit
kudos:7 | Why did you install Intel graphics? It sounds like you are running off the integrated graphics from the i7-2500/2600/whatever CPU you have.
It's not a driver issue, you are set to use the iGPU or some level of virtualization instead of solely using the discrete GPU:
Everything You Need to Know about Intel's New Z68 Chipset
In i-mode, you set the board to initialize the integrated graphics port first in the UEFI. Then you connect your monitor to the motherboard’s graphics port. You’ll need to install graphics drivers for both the Intel integrated part and the discrete part. For our testing, we used a GeForce GTX 580 card. Lucid actually says the best results will come from an ATI card, but we opted for the nVidia card to see how much of a monkey wrench we could throw in it. For a just out of beta product it surprisingly worked well. Would we run it in this mode? Probably not, at least at this point.
When running in i-mode, you are primarily using your integrated graphics and only kicking on the discrete card for gaming. The main sticking point here is that you’ll need Lucid to create profiles for any game that you run in the Virtu mode. Most gamers that we know can’t wait that long when a new game is released. The other issue is power savings. As one of the key points of i-mode you'll likely see only moderate to minimal savings. That’s because unlike a mobile solution’s switchable graphics, the discrete card doesn’t completely power down. Even idling, today’s beefy graphics cards still drink too much power. We’d prefer it if vendors could find a way to power down the discrete card when not in use. I-mode is also currently incompatible with dual-GPU cards and SLI too.
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Virtu has a second mode available that’s likely to be more handy: d-mode. In this mode, you set the UEFI to boot to initialize the PCI-E graphics adapter first and hook the monitor up to a port on the graphics card. In this mode, the discrete graphics card is in control and any game you run will run without the need for profiles to be created by Lucid. So what would ever use d-mode for? To access the Quick Sync technology in Sandy Bridge. Yes, Sandy Bridge’s graphics performance will never best a serious GPU, but believe it or not, the transistors that Intel has dedicated in Sandy Bridge for encoding and transcoding are mean mothers. How mean?
We took an Asus P8Z68-V Pro board, plugged in a Core i7-2600K, 8GB of DDR3/1333, a 1TB Western Digital Black drive and a GeForce GTX 580 card. Running in d-mode, we used CyberLink’s MediaEspresso 6.5 to transcode a single VOB file to a generic WMV file suitable for playback on an HTC smart phone. Using the GeForce GTX 580 card took 142 seconds. We then used Virtu to allow us to access the QuickSync mode on the Core i7-2600K chip which took 109 seconds. That’s about a 30 percent faster for the integrated grapics. Now think about a transcode that would take three hours. Would you rather use the GeForce GTX 580 or the Core i7-2600K’s Quick Sync?
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| How do I check for i-mode/d-mode?
Monitor hooked up as always to my mornal HDMI input |
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 GhastlyonePremium
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kudos:2 | reply to Krisnatharok
Did you try adjusting settings in BIOS? Disabling on board video, etc?
By the way, I've had a hell of time installing and getting the AMD Catalyst to work on my old HP desktop. They just do not work, at all. |
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| said by Ghastlyone:Did you try adjusting settings in BIOS? Disabling on board video, etc?
I didn't |
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KrisnatharokCaveat EmptorPremium
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kudos:7 | reply to 59137280
said by 59137280:Monitor hooked up as always to my normal HDMI input
On the PCI graphics card or on the motherboard? |
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| said by Krisnatharok:said by 59137280:Monitor hooked up as always to my normal HDMI input
On the PCI graphics card or on the motherboard? On the graphics card I think, the one other hDMI doesn't even display the monitor |
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KrisnatharokCaveat EmptorPremium
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kudos:7 | Look at page 69 of the manual: the entry "Marvell Storage Controller" should be set to "AHCI Mode." It probably is since it came that way, but we need you to verify that, as well as where the monitor is plugged in.
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