Switching from Intel HD Graphics to AMD Radeon Graphics

[SendHelp123]

Hi. I bought a new laptop with Intel HD 520 Graphics and AMD Radeon R7 m360 dedicated graphics. I want to know how to switch from the Integrated graphics card to the dedicated one as whenever I play a game such as Minecraft, it will always say it is running on Intel HD Graphics

I have tried:
- Using the BIOS. It doesn't let me change my actual graphics card (Only 2 options are 'Switchable Graphics' and 'UMP (or something like that) graphics' - I tried the latter out, but it didn't fix it)
- Setting Minecraft to 'High Performance' in the AMD Radeon Settings
- Changing the battery settings to run on 'Maximize Performance' while on battery and plugged in
- Installed the latest AMD Graphics Driver
- Disabled the Intel HD graphics in the device manager


Despite me trying all this and saving all the settings etc., Minecraft still says it is running on my iGPU. I have been trying to figure this out for 5 hours now, please help

 

[renz496]

So no option to force the application to use amd gpu instead in CCC?

 

[Gingerbread]

Right click on the minecraft exe and use "Run with Graphics processor", that's the way it goes for nvidia, should be similar for AMD.

 

[SendHelp123]

Right click on the minecraft exe and use "Run with Graphics processor", that's the way it goes for nvidia, should be similar for AMD.

No. Nothing like that comes up

 

[SendHelp123]

So no option to force the application to use amd gpu instead in CCC?

I don't actually have the Catalyst Control Centre. When I right-click my desktop, it only comes up with 'AMD Radeon Settings'. I've looked all over the options and none of them seem to fix the problem

 

[SendHelp123]

Just managed to fix the issue FYI. Had to set the Java program that runs Minecraft to 'High Performance', not just the Minecraft application itself. I still would like to actually set the AMD card as a permanent, Primary GPU

 

[renz496]

Hmm probably the driver decides to put minecraft to run using because intel igpu because it might "thought" the application as a light one that using intel igp are good enough for it for saving power.