Vray and Renderman light icons invisible in viewport

[Anonymous]

Dear lads and Lasses,
I use the two render engines: Vray and Renderman (just installed them)
The light icons are invisible in the viewport 2.0 renderer.
I tried setting my viewport render engine from OpenGL to DX11 but it did not solve the problem.
Then I took a look at my output window and it prompted:
Initialized VP2.0 renderer {
  Version : 5.3.2.800. Feature Level 5.
  Adapter : Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000
  Vendor ID: 32902. Device ID : 358
  Driver : aticfx64.dll:14.301.1013.0.
  API : DirectX V.11.  Max texture size : 16384 * 16384.
  Max tex coords : 32
  Shader versions supported (Vertex: 5, Geometry: 5, Pixel 5).
  Active stereo support available : 0
  GPU Memory Limit : 2112 MB.
  CPU Memory Limit: 7675.38 MB.
}
So does it mean Maya actually uses my Intel Card instead of the AMD Radeon HD 8730M I have?
If so, how to force Maya to muster up my AMD to get the job done?
Drivers are up to date by the way.
Thanks in advance.

[pshwayka]

Forcing Maya to use the AMD won't help. To see your VRay and Renderman lights, you need to run Viewport 2.0 in regular OpenGL mode, or use one of the Legacy viewport renderers.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the update.

Under prefs/display I have tried dx11 as well as openGL as viewport 2.0 renderer, I do not have another option 😕

Is there a way to use them with viewport 2?

Also in more complex scenes with particles and all Maya lags.

Am I using the Intel card as prompted in the output? Maya is set to high performance in catalyst control center, what else could I do?

[pshwayka]

I have seen people recommend disabling the intel graphics in the system BIOS...you may want to look into that.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your reply.

I tried it and it would work normally but some other applications on my computer do not support my fantastic amd and keep crashing. For those I'm forced to keep the intel card on 😕