I just got a new laptop with a dedicated AMD Radeon HD 6650M graphics card. It has the most up to date drivers installed. In the CCC I set both tesv.exe and skyrimlauncher.exe to high performance.

When I first opened the game from steam, it put my graphics on medium automatically but I expected this card to be on high. I opened the options on the launcher and it is set on my integrated card. The dedicated card isn't an option as if the game isn't detecting it exists.

I was wondering if anyone could help me with this.

I actually have this same problem witht he same graphics card, the Radeon 6650M (2 Gb vram). Mine is in a Acer 7750G with an I5 processor and 8 Gb ram. My game lags. Thanks for posting this.

I actually added these two lines to the Skyrim ini file. This may help you a bit.

iMinMemoryPageSize=100000 and iMaxMemoryPageSize=5000000
Add iMaxAllocatedMemoryBytes=1800000000

I found this tip on these forums yesterday. It helped me a bit. Before I added these lines the opening movie was stuttering and it was not really playable. Now it just lags a bit but I have it on low settings. This card should be able to play the game on medium according the wiki. Any tips for us?

EDIT: and also how to get the launcher to recognize the gpu rather than the integrated card? I would like to smooth out the playability and have the mouths actually catch up to the speech. Thanks in advance for any help!

There is an issue with Skyrim correctly detecting all Radeon cards. My ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 is detected for low settings. this card runs at high settings by specs and can easily run ultra. yet when I put in my Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS it detected it for Medium settings. as for the issue changing the settings in the launcher than doing what dacar92 did is an easy fix till they get the detection right. but as of right now they have bigger issues to deal with and many more patches to work on. with an easy workaround like this they will probably focus on more pressing matters.

you ca use gpu-Z, to obtain you manufacture #ID. and place the hardware codes into your .ini.

I have a laptop with an Amd apu and gpu and the game doesn't detect the gpu but it ends up using it (used Riva Tuner Statistics to confirm it). A friend of mine has a similar laptop but with an Intel i5 and, again, an Amd gpu and he's in the same situation. Apparently the launcher cannot detect the card but when the game kicks in the graphics are switched to the external gpu. It's worth noting that I've created a Skyrim profile in the Catalyst drivers and explicitly told the driver to use the external gpu in place of the embedded controller.

Can you or someone else please explain this in greater detail?
Thanks

Ya know, I was just thinking, I did this when i was using enb. I wouldnt detect the card right so they had you plug this into there ini.
maybe someone can chime in if they know. In the skyrimprefs. under display, theres a sd3ddevice= the device id maybe addable there?

in gpu-z there is a device id, example (mine is 1002-6738)

in the enb ini they had you put 0x6738 0x1002.

if know one knows, i will give it t try in a bit....as I just got up

...So I think if you just go to the skyrim prefs, under display, sd3ddevice= "AMD Radeon 6650m" should fix it. Im not sure if it will affect your performance at all. I would use the gpu-z and run through the game. and make sure its using all of the cards ability.

Thanks for the replies. What's the gpu-z? Is it a command in game?

This: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

Thank you good sir!

Now, to get rid of the lag............

I appologize. I miss read your message. what I would suggest is to first go into device manager and disable your onboard video driver. than restart your computer. go into your bios setup and turn off your onboard video card.