I have an Acer Aspire 7750G-6662:

Intel Core i5-2430M, 2.4 GHz w/ Turbo Boost up to 3.0 GHz

AMD Radeon HD 6650m w/ 2GB VRAM

8GB RAM

By all accounts I should be able to play the game on solid medium settings, but I can just barely manage with everything off/low/minimum, in a window at 800x600, which is tiny and unplayable for its own reasons. Everything is choppy and stuttering; even the mouse in the pause and inventory menus seems to lag. If I jerk the camera to one side in game, it takes maybe a third of a second to respond at all. I've tried updating my drivers as much as possible, and I've tried a few mods to improve performance, but nothing seems to work. What am I missing? Am I out of luck?

Are you sure the game uses your AMD Radeon HD 6650m grahics card? What does the RendererInfo.txt you'll find in My Documents/My Games/Skyrim say?

Hmm, it does say it's using the Intel graphics, which is also the only option available under the Graphics Adapter menu in the launcher settings. The auto-detect doesn't seem to find the Radeon. However, MSI Afterburner does show activity on both chips, and I definitely have "High Performance" selected in the catalyst software.

Renderer Device Information:

Intel® HD Graphics Family
aticfx32.dll
RenderPath : BSSM_SV_3_0
PSversion : 300
VSversion : 300
VStarget : vs_3_0
PStarget : ps_3_0
PS2xtarget : ps_3_0
maxPS20inst : 512
3.0 Support : yes
3.0 Lighting : yes
Nonpowerof2textures : yes
FP16ARGB blending : yes
FP16ARGB filtering : no
Bloom lighting : no
Refraction : yes
2.0 hairw : yes
SLI mode : no
NVapi enabled : no
Multisample Type : 0
Transparency MS : no
HW Thread Count : 4

As the video say, but choose under 3D settings: High performance, and under Anti-aliasing select Filter standard.

http://www.youtube.c...?v=DCh9Eob0mNY?/a>

I would try first at 1280x720 low settings. !!!

Your Ati HD6650m is not that strong as you thing, but better than the Intel HD Graphics 3000 you also have.

You should contact Acer and ask them how to fix this. If drivers for your graphics card are installed, you are probably missing some additional program.

The video posted by Mark41 seemed to do the trick. I had everything set for performance already in the AMD catalyst, but I overlooked a few options still set to quality in the Intel graphics settings that I guess overrode my preference to use AMD in the first place. I'm now running smoothly at 1280x720 with all low settings. I'll of course try to get it up as pretty as I can now, but it's at least playable which is all I care for. Thanks a bunch.

Glad you fixed it...Enjoy, and good luck !!!