Questions tagged [graphics-card]
Referring to problems with a graphics card, the graphics processing unit, usually on a PC, or specific settings on a graphics card for a specific game.
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Bioshock Remastered is stretched vertically in 16:10. How do I force the correct aspect ratio?
Does someone know how to make BioShock Remastered not look stretched vertically on a 16:10 screen? Even a letterbox 16:9 solution (with black borders up and down) will be fine...
My monitor is 18"...
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Graphics Card Compatibility w/Gigabyte MB & Ryzen 5 CPU [closed]
I am building my unit from scratch and so far all I have is the MB, PS, CPU, and 64GB DDMR4.
When I power it up (no monitor or input) the CPU Cooling Fan does not come on - so I assume either the fan ...
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Moving camera in-game: causing some sort of uneasiness
This is not a question about a specific game, but I am wondering if anyone has something that can shed some light on this - it is gaming related.
I am using a MSI PULSE GL76 laptop to play my games - ...
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Crash of Duke Nukem Forever in Ubuntu Steam - Proton experimental - Nvidia RTX 3060
I have an issue. My old laptop died and I bought a new PC with a MAG B550 Tomahawk motherboard, a Ryzen 5 5000 with Radeon and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060.
I installed the latest Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and ...
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Black Screen for 2 or 3 seconds when alt tabbing into a full screen game [duplicate]
I've noticed recently that I've been encountering an issue when I try to alt tab into a full-screen game. The monitor that is plugged into my graphics card will turn black for 2 or 3 seconds. I've ...
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Show frames per second on Shadow Upgrade
I'm using the Shadow Upgrade cloud gaming PC, which is working nicely, but I would like to show an in-game frames per second counter to optimize performance.
I've looked at this list of top five ...
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Unable to run Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th
I have a PC with the following specs:
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core
Gigabyte X670E Aorus Master
DDR5 Corsair Vengeance 5200 MHz 32 GB
AMD Radeon RX 6800XT
It runs Windows 11 and I installed all the ...
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Is it normal for GPU utilization to be locked at 100%?
Playing Trek to Yomi and at max on a 3080 and 1440p UW I'm getting close to 200fps, but GPU utilization is at 100% and temps are super high. To optimize for better temps, I tried using the ingame ...
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Does limiting frames in dota 2 help to reduce power consumption GPU?
Does limiting frames in Dota 2 help to reduce power consumption GPU? There is an option to limit the in-game FPS of Dota 2. Does this reduce the GPU power consumption as well?
Would like to know ...
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Can modern CPUs run PhysX with high FPS?
PhysX is over ten years old now, and back then running PhysX supported games with cpu-only PhysX setting guaranteed low framerates.
Can today's fastest processors like Intel i9 paired with non-nvidia ...
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"Cannot find a compatible graphics card" Error when launching Dirt 5
I am trying to play "Dirt 5" through steam but I get an error which reads:
"Cannot find a compatible graphics card"
I am using an AMD Radeon R9 200 Series graphics card.
I am ...
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New update on Star Stable says that cards with OpenGL 4.0 or less won't support snow. I see 4.5 on my output and I can't see snow
I run SSO under Wine and PortProton, I don't understand why I'm unable to see the snow when my OpenGL check output says 4.5.
$ glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version"
OpenGL version string: 4.5 (...
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Games are scaling widescreen even if laptop screen resolution is 4:3
I have a potato laptop with Intel UHD 620 graphics and a 940MX GPU.
So if you know, you don't have NVIDIA scaling options in the NVIDIA control panel when you are not using any external monitor. It ...
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Can Elite Dangerous run old old GPUs? [duplicate]
I'd like to buy Elite:Dangerous, the Steam minimum requirements say "Nvidia GTX 470 / AMD R/ 240" and "DirectX: Version 11"
I have an Nvidia GT 730. My friend says I should be able ...
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Graphics glitch with NVIDIA GeForce 3060 Ti LHR on GTA V / Witcher 3
Two months old PC (Windows 10), this glitch started to appear consistently. It's flickering.
I've updated graphics card driver from 49x to 511 to no avail. Tried the lowest graphics settings possible, ...
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Is 90°C too high for GPU and CPU whilst gaming?
I have an HP laptop with Intel i3 5005u CPU and Radeon R5 M330 2GB GPU. When I play games both the CPU's and the GPU's temperatures get up to 99°C and mostly stay above 93°C. Should I continue playing ...
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My laptop is unable to efficiently choose the right GPU
I have a HP Pavilion series laptop with the following specs:
CPU: Ryzen 5 4500H
GPU 1: AMD Radeon integrated
GPU 2: Nvidia GTX 1650ti
The issue started suddenly. My laptop is not using the Nvidia ...
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Far Cry 6: “Unable to start the game” on Windows 10 boot camp
Using Windows 10 bootcamp on a 2016 MacBook Pro, getting this message when trying to start Far Cry 6 on the Epic Games store:
Far Cry: New Dawn and Far Cry 5 work fine. How can I find out exactly ...
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Cannot play games with NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super + Intel Xeon Silver
For professional purposes, I work on a computer with the following specifications:
Graphics card NVIDIA RTX 2070 SUPER (8 GB), Processor (x 2) Intel Xeon Silver 2.40 GHz, and 128 GB RAM
I tried to ...
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Intense lagging while playing games (Space Engine)
I have played SpaceEngine (NOT Space-Engineers) on my laptop for almost a year now without any problems. However the game has started experiencing a lot of lag for the last one month. I opened up task ...
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Nvidia DLSS cannot be loaded due to outdated driver
I am aware of how to fix this, but a lot of times the outdated drivers complaints are meaningless. The game runs fine when i press ok. Am I missing out on anything by the DLSS not being loaded? ...
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Gigabyte Gpu GTX 960 suddenly too slow for dx9 games
All of a sudden, games using direct X 9 are too slow and stutters with around 10-20 fps, while the gpu is working at 99%. The exact games used to function a week ago reaching 100+fps and without that ...
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How to play CS:GO with dual monitor expanded over both monitors?
I want to play CS:GO using two monitors, each connected via HDMI to a GT 1030. How can I play CS:GO expanded over both monitors?
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Are low profile GPUs better than laptop GPUs or are they same thing?
I'm overwhelmed by the different types of GPUs. Recently I came to know that laptops have different GPUs that have lower power consumption and are smaller in size.
But no matter how much I tried to ...
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I ran a UserBenchmark test and the graphics are at about 1.21%. What are some ways to fix this for cheap or free?
My benchmark: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/44519424
Specifications:
NVidia GTX 940M
Core i7-6500U (which is 2.5 GHz)
HP envy notebook (basically a laptop)
I have about 40-60 fps for low ...
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Flickering shadows in games. Help Please
Hello I would like to ask if there is a way to fix this flickering shadow. It appears in almost game that I'm playing. It's very weird.
My Rig:
Ryzen 3 3100
GT 1030 GDDR5
B450m mortar
8GB DDR4 RAM
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Getting poor Half-Life: Alyx performance with a 1080 Ti -- what can I do to improve performance?
I have a GeForce 1080 Ti GTX graphics card. I play Half-Life: Alyx with it using High Quality preset settings. I've heard from numerous people that the game runs really well on it, but I can't seem to ...
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AMD GPU fluctuates utilization and clock speed on restart
I'm trying to play Civ6 at bare minimum settings and my hardware reaches recommended requirements, but sometimes when I boot the game it runs at 5fps with very little GPU utilization and ~ 200MHz ...
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How to remove the blurry effect around the player in Minecraft RTX?
Whenever I play on Minecraft (Bedrock edition) for Windows 10 with Ray Tracing turned on, I have a weird blurry effect that appears starting from 4-5 blocks away from me. Here's a screenshot:
As I ...
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How do I check if my GPU supports Raytracing?
while browsing a particular website I came across this notice on a page for Metro Exodus
ATTENTION! ENHANCED EDITION WORKS ONLY ON GPUs WITH RAY TRACING TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT!
IT WILL NOT LAUNCH ON ...
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Can run 4k60fps but not 1080p 60fps [closed]
I started one of my games and noticed it was a bit choppy.. the game looked a bit too good to be true so I checked the settings and it was running in 4k. I run all my games in 1080p because 4k on max ...
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How to fix track not rendering in Star Wars Episode I Racer?
I installed a CD-ROM of Star Wars Episode I: Racer, for PC, on a computer running Windows XP. Though the graphics cards, Intel GMA 4500MHD, aren't really new, they should be sufficient, in fact, it ...
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Touhou 6 random lag spikes
Every 10 seconds or so, the game freezes for about 0.2-0.5 seconds while reporting to run on constant 62.50 FPS. I'm running Win10, here's what I've tried:
"OBS-fix", setting the graphics ...
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Strange Behavior 2013 PS3 Game: Black, Horizontal "Bar-Code" Lines...Mixed Signals? Old Game and HDTV?
Does anyone know why this behavior occurs? On starting this PS3 game ("Tomb Raider", released 2013), there are screen flashes and black, horizontal "bar code"-like lines that ...
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GT 710 Overclocking
I have a DDR3 GT 710 2GB Passive Edition from ZOTAC. As you all might already know, it is not ideal for gaming. Hence, I intend on overclocking it to gain a couple of frames for GTA 5 (gives about 35 ...
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I am getting an error with Epic Games saying 'Unsupported Graphics Card'
I am a Windows 7 Home Premium user and I tried to boot up Rocket League when I got an error saying the following: 'There is a problem with your graphics card. Please ensure your card meets the minimum ...
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Nvidia Quadro FX 1700 graphics card rejected by latest WoW update - suggestions please?
After downloading the latest WoW update, we got the unpleasant surprise that our Nvidia Quadro FX 1700 card is apparently no longer supported. (Everything worked fine until the day before)
I tried ...
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On my older laptop or desktop, NVidia drivers won't work properly?
I have an older PC, and installed Linux on it to give it some new life. It has a gaming gpu in it, but it won't run games nearly as fast now. So I read you need the proprietary nvidia driver as the ...
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What is ray tracing?
I'm not a big tech person so the first time I've heard about it is in Cyberpunk 2077 discussions. Apparently only the really high end GPUs can support it properly.
What exactly is ray tracing? How ...
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CS:GO does not run using dedicated GPU
I have a HP Omen 15 laptop and it has an i7-8700HQ CPU and GTX 1050 Ti. It used to run 140-160 fps, but at some point it started to run at 40-80 fps. Monitor refresh rate is 144hz.
Before you say &...
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How do I fix this black border problem in games
In dark souls 3 for example, I have this problem:
I have my display set to 1280x1024 on my desktop and I set the graphics xml of dark souls to the same graphics:
And here are my nvidia settings:
I ...
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Black screen when alt-tabbing borderless games in Windows 10
When I attempt to alt-tab out of a game, or click on something on my second monitor, my primary monitor turns off for a couple seconds before turning back on (full black instead of backlit black). I ...
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Dota 2 user interface / display problem
Soon as I launch Dota 2, the display becomes as shown in image attached. The screen starts flickering and there is great noise and disruption on the screen overall. I have particularly attached an ...
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Why is my screen flickering when I plug in my second monitor (which is a TV?)
I have two monitors right now, one is a 4k UHD TV.
When I have the display "Extend these displays" rather than "Show only on 1" (1 is the monitor, not the TV) the screen flickers horrendously. When I ...
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HEVC Content on PS4 Games?
I am wondering if anyone is aware, or if it is even possible to determine, if PS4 games discs include HEVC encoded video (e.g., cutscenes or otherwise). I realize that most 4K content is rendered on ...
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Can't force game to use dedicated graphics card
I am new to these forums, so I don't know if this is the right place to ask but...
I recently purchased a new laptop, the Thinkpad P53s, which comes with an NVIDIA Quadro P520 Graphics Card.
I have ...
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Minecraft crashing with NVIDIA GPU
Hi. Minecraft has only been running with my integrated GPU (Intel UHD Graphics 360), so I got Minecraft to use my external GPU (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060) by going to settings and setting C:\Program ...
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What games did NVIDIA come through on regarding RTX and DLSS?
In 2018 NVIDIA released its RTX 2000-series cards. A huge part of this release was an emphasis on some fundamental new features that games would support in the future. A list can be seen here of these ...
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Why Euro Truck Simulator 2 not using my laptop's GPU?
Please see this screenshot of task manager (Windows 10):
As you can see, for any other game (like Counter Strike, Half Life), software like Adobe Photoshop, the GPU engine is shown GPU 1 (that is my ...
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How to turn off this graphic effect on The Outer Worlds?
The image looks disgusting, although the maximum graphics settings are set. Everything looks too soapy and blurry. It's like I'm looking through some very dirty glass.
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