I have a Samsung Series 7 with the Radeon 6750M switchable graphics. The ATI software lets you force programs to use the dedicated card. However, I'm not convinced it is actually ever using it, as the frame rates on some non-taxing games (Portal, TF2) are merely OK. To make matters worse, it looks like the ATI Catalyst Control has vanished from my laptop. To make it even worse, you can't download the driver and ATI CCC from ATI's site, you need to download it from Samsung, and the ZIP they provide is corrupted.
How can I ensure my Samsung Series 7 is actually using the Radeon switchable graphics?
Best Answer
The mobility checker on AMD's website will download the generic drivers if your system passes. Once you have the CCC, you should be able to check the GPU switching. The 7 series also has had multiple BIOS updates for the issue, and while it's not 100% fixed, the new BIOS at least lets you force it to use only either the IGP or the AMD.
The direct download for the current mobility drivers is http://www2.ati.com/drivers/mobile/12-4_mobility_vista_win7_64_dd_ccc.exe, and a few other websites also host it with mods to work on unsupported systems.