Troublous- Your reply gave me the clues I needed to figure out what is happening.
My Acer 4830TG laptop has integrated Intel 3000HD graphics and an Nvidia Geforce 540M, with some lame assed software from Nvidia called "Optimus" that doesn't work very well. If at all. A search on the Geforce.com forums finds a thread started by an Nvidia employee asking for feedback on Optimus 11 months ago. It now has 10 pages of "feedback", but no response from anyone at nvidia, not surprising considering the amount of anger expressed in some of those posts.
So the short answer basically comes down to- Optimus either does not detect the gpu requests of Silent Hunter, or it just ignores them. So the system defaults to the integrated Intel graphics. Despite having a control panel setting where you can supposedly "force" the gpu preference for any program, it does not do so.
So, from everything I have learned, my fancy new Acer laptop is useless for gaming. I was ripped off by Acer, and their partner in crime, Nvidia.
Anyone considering a new laptop with dual graphics processors be warned- nearly 2 years after Optimus was released it is fatally flawed technology, and there is no indication from Nvidia that they are attempting to remedy the situation. Acer will not acknowledge there is a problem either, their tech support just said-
"the system is not compatible to play that particular game, hence, I would request you to contact any local technician to help you in this issue."
w.t.f.
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