dv6t-61XX / dv7t-61XX Switchable Graphics Discussion

[Beradon]

if you are talking about the minimal system recovery from HP, it doesn't remove the recovery partition nor the hp_tools partition.

Maybe I misspoke, which install option makes it so you can no longer make the recovery dvd?

[walshcm]

I just did some gaming tests with my new Dv6t 6100.

Even with Neverwinter Nights 2 I cannot select max settings if I want to keep FPS around 30. Can't turn on Anti Ali either. That game is a little old by now.

Shogun 2 I run high textures, but no anti al and have to knock shadows down and a couple other options to maintain high 20's zoomed in on a big battle.

One thing I find interesting tho, why does HWINFO64 show the radeon at 725 clock and 217mb of ram. These numbers do not fluctuate unless I tab out of the game, or the game hits a loading screen. At which point they drop to a level that it is obvious the card is not being used.

The intel card on the other hand is about 600-650 both card and ram and fluctuates pretty hard i a tight range while I am playing.

Shogun so far I have to play in window mode. It flickers when I don't.

[teotuf]

Maybe I misspoke, which install option makes it so you can no longer make the recovery dvd?

all the HP restores (system, factory, minimal system) keep the recovery partition. unless you remove it yourself it's always there.

[EzerchE]

ATI Radeon? Video Card Drivers

11.6 catalyst just released! now trying...

[EzerchE]

The following notebooks are not compatible with this release:

Any notebook launched after this driver release
Switchable Graphics enabled notebooks using Intel® chipsets.
Toshiba® notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)
Sony® VAIO® notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)
Panasonic® notebooks (please contact the notebook OEM for driver support for these notebooks)

[Falco152]

You been blindly installing AMD drivers, and you just noticed that?

Anyways, it's like the bridge out ahead sign, you can choose to ignore it.
Feel free to try it. Beradon noticed some poor performance with 11.6 with some of this older games.

[Imwithstupid11]

dv6tqe-6100
I just installed 11.6 and tried a couple things. The order in which I installed was stock > windows update 6770m driver > 11.6. My windows index scores for my gpu pre 11.6 were -
Graphics - 5.3
Gaming Graphics - 6.6

Unfortunately I didn't get 3dmark scores on that driver because it would always crash. My scores after 11.6 are -
Graphics - 6.7
Gaming Graphics - 6.7

My 3dmark score with 11.6 is P6485
Gpu score - 5362
Cpu score - 17420

On the result sheet it also doesn't mention the fact that I am using a 6770m at all, just the intel graphics.

On a side note, has anyone been able to get Minecraft to work on the 6100's? In gpuz it shows it is using the 6770m but the clocks stay solid at 100mhz and 27mhz.

**Edit - Also to anyone testing/benchmarking, having your coolsense set to "Coolest" will tamper with your results. I noticed by enabling this it disables turbo boost on the cpu and the max it can get to is 2ghz(if you have 2630qm). I don't know if it changes anything else, just giving a heads up.

[EzerchE]

i couldnt install the 11.6 driver.

[xabial]

This thread is all over the place, and im not that great with computers? I spent $1300 ordering my Dv6t Quad Edition (6100 Series) and am getting worried before my laptop arrives that my laptop will have a problem with its 1GB GDDR5 Radeon(TM) HD 6770M Graphics [HDMI, VGA].

How do i test my laptop if the switchable graphics card works? I want a very easy way with/without a game.

Whats 11.5b, should i install it, is there a chance it can mess up the computer, and does it work?

Does system restore actually fix the switchable graphics issue? How is that possible? Is there any risks applying system restore?

Do ALL laptops have the switchable graphics card issue with the Radeon 6770M graphics card, or do some work fine upon arrival? Can it switch fine, and suddenly stop switching, or once it switches you've got nothing to worry about?


Should i make a recovery disk before i use any of these tests?

ANY Input is highly appreciated guys. I have no knowledge regarding the HP dv6t quad edition (6100 Series), i just know its a great machine that gives you value for the price, but im really getting worried since i spent $1300 For 8gb Ram, Full 1920x1080 HD, i7 w/ 2.2 ghz turbo bost 3.3 ghz, Blue ray reader/Writer.

[Bransay]

Hi all, I've been following this post for a while now since I too have the dv6t (specifically the dv6-6105tx) and I'm unsatisfied with the switchable graphics feature.

Although I can see how it is a hindrance to not have some kind of global setting, I can still bear with configuring my applications manually. However it appears that OpenGL based applications are not getting hardware acceleration from the dGPU.

Minecraft performs at 10-25fps, and the Unigine Heaven benchmark for OpenGL pulls a mere 8 fps (more than 20 fps slower then the DirectX 9 benchmark).

A piece of news too, it appears that HP has added the AMD driver for my model, you may want to check if its also been released for the other 6100s. (The link appears to be broken on my side)