Hi there, it seems that my pc has a graphic card aboard.
How to check which one?
Do I eventually have to opmitimize the graphic card myself? (driver etc)
Do look forward hearing from you soon, thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
Herman
Holland
What brand of computer?
What OS?
Hallo Hermie,
Mocht je grafische kaart het begeven hebben, dan kun je deze eventueel opnieuw laten toasten (zgh. “overbakken”).
Ga daarvoor naar een goede computer-reparateur.
polonus
Speccy should give you all the system info you need https://www.piriform.com/speccy
Thanks for your replies.
@para-noid: asus laptop pc, official version w8.1
@polonus: start-up van pc is traag, 8 gb ram, i7 processor, hoe kontroleren welke grafische kaart er in zit, hoe opstarten versnellen?
Do look forward hearing from you!
Ik kijk er naar uit van jullie te horen!
Met vriendelijke groet.
Kind regards,
Herman
Netherlands
@pondus: thanks for your reply.
I will check speccy tomorrow, I am currently working on a chromebook computer.
Kind regards,
Herman
The Netherlands
Ha Hermie,
Lees even hier: http://nl.ccm.net/faq/25-updaten-stuurprogramma-van-grafische-kaart
Heb je problemen gehad als een BSOD, korte episode van intensief geflikker van het beeldscherm?
Misschien moet je je BIOS instellingen eens nalopen en op Quick Boot instellen.
Je kan het start up menu opschonen.
Zijn er Windows diensten bij start up die de boel vertragen?
Zet niet gebruikte hardware uit.
Update je AV en schakel onnodige fonts uit.
Het kan duiden op hard disk problemen, je kunt het installeren van een Solid State Drive overwegen.
Succes,
polonus
I have downloaded and installed Speccy from Priform.
Hooray! My pc got a graphic card aboard from Nvidia Geforce GT720M (2047 MB, 36C).
Should I keep my drivers up to date (I assume)?
http://www.geforce.com/geforce-experience
I will check my start up programs which I may disable.
Kind regards. Herman (Netherlands)
For the most part, I have never updated a graphics driver in all of the time I have had PCs.
The exception to this rule being if there is a known problem with the driver and it is effecting you, then that justifies updating it.
Another aspect is if you were a gamer and now the new games use later versions of DirectX support, not in your existing graphics driver. If this is all news to you then you probably don’t have to update your graphics driver.
I have just run ccleaner to check which programs start up immediately.
There are lots of them!
Can I diasable all to speed up my pc?
(from Google, Piriform, Zoner, Adobe, Asustek, Avast, Asus, Brother, Canon, Intel, Cyberlink Corp, Realtek Semiconductor, Dropbox)
I do look forward hearing from you, thanks in advance.
Kind regards, Herman (Holland)
@DavidR thank you for your reply.
I will not update my Geforce driver(s), unless necessary.
I wanna join BOINC: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Kind regards, Herman (Holland)
Off topic: how to run programs in a virtual machine?
Which free vm is available.
You’re welcome.
I rather doubt that you will require any special graphics support (card or driver updates), for the most part it will be using spare capacity of your CPU when it isn’t in use.
Something like the old Folding @ Home project, Stanford Edu, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home “greater than all projects running on the BOINC distributed computing platform combined.”.
You may want to read this http://www.howtogeek.com/196060/beginner-geek-how-to-create-and-use-virtual-machines/
As far as which virtual machine is best?
Most use either VirtualBox or VMware Player Pro.
Note VMware Player Pro is free for home/private use.
Personally I have both. I have found Linux Mint (Rebecca) runs best in VirtualBox while Win7 and
Win10 TP run equally well in either. I prefer Win7 in VMware Player. Try them both then decide.
As long as you have enough HDD space you might as well have both. Just use caution when setting them up
so they don’t take up a lot of space or RAM.