Demo not recognizing graphic card
by J Sears · in Torque 3D Beginner · 11/03/2011 (8:16 pm) · 4 replies
I have an HP laptop. They install a real graphics card( ATI Radeon ) for when games and such are running. They also install a basic intel graphics cards for all of the everyday minor things and that is what is running when you are sitting on the desktop/just surfing the web.
When I launched the pacific demo I noticed it was very choppy so I exited out to the options and saw it was using the intel card. The drop down options had intel and "Gfx null object" so it isn't letting my pick my Radeon card.
I can bypass this by going into my laptops graphics switching settings and telling it to always use the Radeon for the game. The options in game still only show intel and null object.
Is this a problem with the engine in general? I was both surprised and excited to decide to visit the Torque site tonight and find the price was back to an extremely reasonable amount unlike the thousand something it had jumped up to. But it is going to be a major problem if it isn't going to properly recognize my video card.
When I launched the pacific demo I noticed it was very choppy so I exited out to the options and saw it was using the intel card. The drop down options had intel and "Gfx null object" so it isn't letting my pick my Radeon card.
I can bypass this by going into my laptops graphics switching settings and telling it to always use the Radeon for the game. The options in game still only show intel and null object.
Is this a problem with the engine in general? I was both surprised and excited to decide to visit the Torque site tonight and find the price was back to an extremely reasonable amount unlike the thousand something it had jumped up to. But it is going to be a major problem if it isn't going to properly recognize my video card.
#2
Having had an Alienware laptop before the HP and having played games with this laptop I can assure you it is a fallacy that laptops can't run serious new release games. Haven't found one I can't run yet.
The chips, memory, hard drives are all the same as a desktop. The only difference is the video card. Alienware uses high end video cards that mirror the desktop cards, but they are currently the only laptop maker to do so. When I had my alienware I could run new release games at super high settings and it ran like a dream. HP, not having the high end video card, can't run cutting edge games at the highest settings. It can run them at high enough settings to be enjoyable.
That's not to mention that outside of games like BF3 and Crysis, most companies are trying to make new games less hardware intense to appeal to a wider audience.
Of course none of that answers or solves my problem.
11/04/2011 (6:23 pm)
Once I force it to use the internal card there is zero choppiness when I go back in with the same detail settings.Having had an Alienware laptop before the HP and having played games with this laptop I can assure you it is a fallacy that laptops can't run serious new release games. Haven't found one I can't run yet.
The chips, memory, hard drives are all the same as a desktop. The only difference is the video card. Alienware uses high end video cards that mirror the desktop cards, but they are currently the only laptop maker to do so. When I had my alienware I could run new release games at super high settings and it ran like a dream. HP, not having the high end video card, can't run cutting edge games at the highest settings. It can run them at high enough settings to be enjoyable.
That's not to mention that outside of games like BF3 and Crysis, most companies are trying to make new games less hardware intense to appeal to a wider audience.
Of course none of that answers or solves my problem.
#3
I've also gone ahead and moved this thread to the correct forum section.
11/05/2011 (5:29 pm)
@J Sears: This is a known issue that low power consumption video cards are not working correctly with Torque 3D. Unfortunately, we don't have a fix for it at this time.I've also gone ahead and moved this thread to the correct forum section.
Torque 3D Owner Bloodknight
Bloodknight Studios
1)As far as i know the pacific demo wont even run on the intel chipset. so it could be just a reporting error, the part of the game that detects the graphics card is right at the start, you system may not have even switched at that point.
2)The common mistake is that anybody believes that a laptop is capable of playing higher end games, its not, never will be unless significant breakthroughs are made in the advancement of GPU technology.
The chances are that the laptop has switched the GPU from one that's incapable of running the game to one that's barely capable of running the game.