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slap03:There are 2 cards in the laptop, 1 for normal desktop use which is lower power, and 1 for gaming that is a dedicated card. The intent is to increase the laptops battery life while still having the ability to have a high performance system.
That being said, most likely the laptop isn't enabling the dedicated card when you play a game.
Make sure that in the Enduro/AMD drivers, that they recognize the game, and are setup to USE the dedicated card for those games, instead of the integrated card.

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