EVE General Discussion

Ok so I finish basic training excited to play EVE I even buy a new computer to play it a Samsung 7 Series CHRONOS with a Radeon AMD 8870 graphics card and when i install EVE to play it i notice some weird graphics problems with the lights all the lights in the game have a weird blocky look to them and when my lasers fire its a big square of light the color of whatever the beam is i dont know why its doing this all the graphics are on high and there shouldnt be an issue but the game when i go to graphics options is saying its using Intel (R) HD Graphics 4000 so if anyone knows how to fix this please help thanks

when i right click it, it doesnt give me that option it says i can run it with razor game booster

lol well i have a laptop im not sure how to take the graphics card out but thanks it helped it out although the lights are still messed up which is irritating

mine is just the blocky light i dont understand it ive messed with every setting now and it still has weird lighting its just blocks with weird designs on them mainly the sun the lights in stations and my lasers and the weird glowing gas clouds found in some missions

Make sure you have the latest Catalyst drivers installed for your card.

Could be something like this?

http://superuser.com/questions/231446/how-to-use-dedicated-video-card-instead-of-onboard

Also, please use sentence structure. It will help us understand your problem and what you have tried already. I had to reread several times to get everything right.

EDIT: I realized that NVIDIA, I think yours has similar software. Someone already mentioned looking to see if it was installed.

Additionally, a laptop model would help.

Samsung 7 Series CHRONOS with a Radeon AMD 8870 graphics card this was in the first post i made if you didnt see it thats what i bought.

Sorry about sentence structure im in a hurry to get this fixed lol.

15.6 0r 17?

Also, the file you exxecutable you want to switch is exefile.exe


Edit: you should notice the machine get a lot warmer xD

its just the laptop size, though the 17" has a inboard optical drive

That's the series. Do you have a specific model number?

Example: NP700Z5AH

Just trying to narrow down to help.

Also, look here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/samsung/716957-samsung-series-7-chronos-graphics-card-help-needed.html

Perhaps updating drivers as well.

EDIT: The TL;DR version is this: If the laptop has "high performance graphics" selected it will use the dedicated graphics chip, even though it reports using the Intel HD graphics (there is a comment about selected drivers VS chip report). That being said, you might not be doing anything wrong, but may require a driver update for your card.

I do know my 7870 on my desktop has issues with a few graphics in the game. Specifically when large amounts of bombs explode, my secondary display turns yellow (but can still see the UI) for a brief time, then returns to normal.