Success Story with get switchable graphics to run on Windows 10 with one to Inspiron 15r / Inspiron 7520

For background, some Dell laptops have a function where they use a low-power intel graphics card when running undemanding applications, but they spend a graphics card with high power, high power (series AMD Radeon) when demanding games is running. With the AMD/Intel version, it's a very fragile Setup and you can not download an older version of the drivers and expect to work. Dell engineers specifically design a version of intell driver installers that is compatible with this configuration.

Pilot automatic/windows updates and changes to the OS can overwrite on this delicate configuration and you are at the mercy of the people of Dell support on when you will get an updated driver. If you use just the vanilla Intel video drivers, they don't respect the will AMD to take the chart control and the AMD video card will sit unused in your laptop.

There are three parts to get Windows to use your preferred hardware driver, remove all installed software that provides drivers. This is done by uninstalling all the software that puts drivers on the hard drive. The second step is to remove all windows drivers is pegged against because Windows will not allow pilots used to be completely uninstalled. To do this put Windows in "safe mode" where it does not use most of the drivers and then uninstall and delete the driver files themselves. step final is to install your favorite drivers, the AMD and Intel video drivers in this case.

Here's how I got AMD/Intel switchable graphics to work in Windows 10:

  1. I went on the site of dell drivers with Internet Explorer (not Microsoft Edge/Google Chrome/etc) and used the detection system to recognize my laptop. Then, I downloaded the video drivers Intel and AMD for 64-bit Windows 10
  2. I uninstalled all of the AMD and Intel video drivers via the Add/Remove Programs application in Control Panel.
    1. You can search for "Remove programs" in the search box in the windows bar to get the applet in Windows 10.
    2. There are a lot of Intel drivers for things like network cards, be sure to uninstall the drivers for video cards only.
  3. I started in SafeMode Windows 10. Search for instructions on internet to find out how to enter safe mode.
  4. I opened the control panel and went to the Device Manager to remove the video drivers left on the system.
    1. I think that currently used driver files are not completely uninstalled when you uninstall the software of the driver in the usual way, we must do more.
    2. Open Device Manager (a passerby is windows key + 'x')
    3. Open graphics cards, there should be one for intel and amd.
    4. Right-click on each graphics card and choose uninstall. Then click on the option button driver remove and remove drivers
    5. reset
  5. After the reboot, check that the graphics cards in Device Manager are very generic, they say probably intel or amd.
  6. Install the device driver software intel you downloaded from dell
  7. reset
  8. Install the amd you device driver software downloaded from dell
  9. reset
  10. You should now see the option "Configure switchable graphics" If you right click on the desktop.
  11. Try to run a game that requires a bit of graphics card
  12. Open the app "Configure switchable graphics" and check that it has considered the game that you just ran and that he put it to 'high performance '.
  13. fact

Probably, you should be on a/c during all this power. I think that I heard that the switchable graphics may change if it is on battery power, not sure.

Skyrim has worked after that, as well as the intros of l4d2 ran very slowly (they are incredibly unstable when they are executed on the graphics of intel), but the application itself crashed without warning on the desk, just as he finished a solo campaign of loading for me. I suspect that it's probably more a thing of windows 10 a graphical thing and hopefully reinstall the game will fix it.

Well, my case is very simple. I just install the driver the newest Intel.com and amd.com, and everything works. I wish just that Dell can update driver Audio Conexant Audio Device.

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