Thinkpad E525 Facebook games issue?

[Spoon_Key]

Hello

I purchased a Thinkpad E525, 4gb ram, AMD A8-3500m processor, 320gb harddrive (7200rpm)

The laptop arrived yesterday but when i went to play Farmville (Yes Farmville) the farm takes an age to load all the buidlings etc?

I have updated Flash player and all other drivers for the laptop with no joy so can anyone explain how a brand new laptop cant even handle graphics for a game like Farmville?

I purchased an E520 with Intel i3-2310 and that loads anything i throw at it without issues! Is it something to do with the Radeon graphics chip included with the AMD A8-3500m? If so then thats insane as its only a simple based game!

If i dont get some sort of resolution for this do i have the right to ask for a refund as surely it should be able to load and play these games without issues?

Thanks

Spoon

[spark9990]

We can only use lenovo graphics drivers. Unless Lenovo allow AMD catalyst drivers. 

[spark9990]

I found a way to update official amd ati drivers, it works i get good framerates now.

Remove/uninstall catalyst drivers and use Driver sweeper to clean it after. after restart install AMD Catalyst Mobility 11.9 Win 7 | Vista (64-bit)  from http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=351479. 

Driver Packaging Version: 8.892-110914m-125033C-ATI, instead of Lenovo propietary crap.

Hopefully this should fix your gaming issues.

[ColonelONeill]

You may want to ensure that switchable graphics still works. Otherwise you will get very poor battery life.

The stock AMD drivers explicitly state no Intel/ATI switchable support.