I WANT AN ULTIMATE AND FINAL SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM WITH THE GRAPHICS CARDS!!!!!!!

[Banani13]

hello guys, I've been researching this and trying to find a solution for this specific problem for over 6 months now and im not the type that makes new threads, so this is serious...

I'll tell the "tale" of my problem from the beginning: So about 3 years ago, i bought myself a laptop, (i think it was hp dv5) and it wasnt bad, i could do decent stuff with it, and even after 3 years, that laptop could still play minecraft without lag etc. about 6-7 months ago i bought myself a laptop (it was supposedly a "gamer lapotp" with super graphics card and all sorts of things) but then i decided to play minecraft and first got introduced to the 2 graphic cards i appearantly have in my laptop. The new laptop we are talking about is a HP dv7 (windows 7 home premium 64-Bit). now it took me a while to find out about the switchable graphics option and did everything i could to make games run good (like skyrim worked pretty good with the switchable graphics option, while minecraft didnt at all). (By the way: my graphic cards are: Mobile Intel® HD Graphics & Radeon ™ HD 6770M). I just bought amnesia, and the first thing did was changing both amnesia launcher.exe and amnesia.exe to high performance on switchable graphics. the strange thing was that the launcher didnt recognise any card though. when i started the game on the start screen i only saw the options (like "play; extras; options; exit" and the big amnesia logo, but the bacground was black (shouldve been some castle entrance) and when i started the game, i could see subtitles, hear sound, see the menu, see my notes etc, but not the actual gameplay, it was dark (there was a softly blinking white dot in the middle of the screen" but it was unplayable. i restarted the game several times, but always the same result.
Ive updated my ati driver a few months ago, but ,ill try that too now. Why the fuck was I such an idiot to spend so much money on some laptop, which is useless if im not ONLY using it for internet...
I'm really frustrated by now, so please awaiting replies & help

[plutomaniac]

http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thread-9942.html
http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thread-11183.html

Attach me your HPL.log file found under Documents\Amnesia\Main folder.

[Banani13]

Version 1.20
-------- THE HPL ENGINE LOG ------------
Engine build ID 20101021192547

Creating Engine Modules
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Creating graphics module
Creating system module
Creating resource module
Creating input module
Creating sound module
Creating physics module
Creating ai module
Creating gui module
Creating generate module
Creating haptic module
Creating scene module
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Initializing Resources Module
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Creating loader handlers
Creating resource managers
Adding loaders to handlers
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Initializing Graphics Module
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Init lowlevel graphics: 1600x900 bpp:32 fs:0 ms:0 gpufmt:2 cap:'Amnesia - The Dark Descent - Loading...' pos-1x-1)
Setting video mode: 1600 x 900 - 32 bpp
Init Glew...OK
Setting up OpenGL
Vendor: Intel
Renderer: Mobile Intel® HD Graphics
Version: 3.0.0 - Build 8.15.10.2342
Max texture image units: 16
Max texture coord units: 8
Max user clip planes: 6
Two sided stencil: 1
Vertex Buffer Object: 1
Anisotropic filtering: 1
Max Anisotropic degree: 16
Multisampling: 1
Texture compression: 1
Texture compression S3TC: 1
Auto generate MipMaps: 1
Render to texture: 1
Max draw buffers: 8
Max color render targets: 8
Packed depth-stencil: 1
Texture float: 1
GLSL Version: 1.30 - Intel Build 8.15.10.2342
ShaderModel 2: 1
ShaderModel 3: 1
ShaderModel 4: 0
OGL ATIFragmentShader: 0
ATTENTION: System does not support const arrays in glsl!
Setting up G-Bugger: type: 0 texturenum: 3
Adding engine materials
Initializing DevIL
Vendor String: Abysmal Software
Version String: Developer's Image Library (DevIL) 1.6.8pre Aug 12 2006
Version Number: 168
Adding engine post effects
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Initializing Sound Module
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Initializing OpenAL
Available OpenAL devices:
0. Generic Software on Speakers and Headphones (IDT High Definition Audio CODEC)(OpenAL default)
1. Generic Software on Communications Headphones (IDT High Definition Audio CODEC)
Trying to open device 'Generic Software on Speakers and Headphones (IDT High Definition Audio CODEC)'... Success!
Number of mono sources: 32
Streaming setup: 4 Buffers x 262144 bytes each
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Initializing Game Module
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Adding engine updates
Initializing script functions
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User Initialization
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Game Running
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-------- Loading map 'menu_bg.map' ---------
Cache Loading: 1030 ms
Entities: 198 ms
Compilation: 0 ms
Total: 1238 ms
Meshes created: 26
Bodies created: 5
-------- Loading complete ---------
Setting profile: 'Banani' Path: 'C:\Users\Can\Documents/Amnesia/Main/Banani/'
Saving main config.
Saving user config.
Saving main config.
Saving user config.
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Statistics
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Medium framerate: 34.972794
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User Exit
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Saving main config.
Saving user config.
Deleting game modules.
'LuxInputHandler'
'LuxHelpFuncs'
'LuxSaveHandler'
'LuxScriptHandler'
'LuxProgressLogHandler'
'LuxMapHandler'
'LuxMapHelper'
'LuxPlayer'
'LuxInsanityHandler'
'LuxDebugHandler'
'LuxEffectRenderer'
'LuxMusicHandler'
'LuxMusicHandler'
'LuxEffectHandler'
'LuxCompletionCountHandler'
'LuxGlobalDataHandler'
'LuxHintHandler'
'LuxPostEffectHandler'
'LuxPreMenu'
'LuxDebugHandler'
'LuxInventory'
'LuxJournal'
'LuxCredits'
'LuxLoadScreenHandler'
Deleting config files.
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Exiting Gui Module
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Deleting all sets
Deleting all skins
Deleting all gfx elements
Deleting all materials
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Exiting Generate Module
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Exiting Scene Module
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Exiting Input Module
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Exiting Sound Module
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Exiting Graphics Module
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Exiting Resources Module
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Done with fonts
Done with scripts
Done with particles
Done with sounds
Done with meshes
Done with materials
Done with Gpu programs
Done with images
Destroyed all textures
Done with sound entities
Done with animations
Done with ent files
All resources deleted
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Exiting Physics Module
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Exiting System Module
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Deleting game setup provided by user
- Deleting lowlevel stuff.
Physics
Sound
Input
Resources
System
Graphics
Haptic
HPL Exit was successful!

|--Memory Manager Report-------------------------------|
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| No memory leaks detected. Memory left: 0
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[plutomaniac]

1st: http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thr...l#pid89162
2nd: http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thr...l#pid89966

[John.]

Why do u link to a generic threads instead of giving a straight answer?

I already looked all over that crap and found no solution. I saw many ppl with this same problem and no one seems to be finding any possible solution as well.

[Traggey]

Why do u link to a generic threads instead of giving a straight answer?

I already looked all over that crap and found no solution. I saw many ppl with this same problem and no one seems to be finding any possible solution as well.

How about you pay some bloody respect to the person trying to help you solve the issue huh?
He doesn't have to do anything at all if he does not wish to.

If you follow those two links he's posted you'll be able to solve your issue.