#graphics-card

Boosting your Mac’s graphics performance with Blackmagic’s eGPU is more trouble than it’s worth

Blackmagic's eGPU was co-designed with Apple. No wonder it looks like the trash can Mac Pro.Image: raymond wong/mashable Blackmagic eGPU $699

View Product The Good

Super quiet • Pass-through charging for MacBooks with USB-C

The Bad

Expensive • Non-replaceable graphics processor • Many apps aren’t optimized for eGPU • Most apps don’t support hot-plugging • eGPU support for macOS…

Solution: Confirm correctly working of hardware acceleration in Chrome (Windows 7)? #answer #dev #development

Confirm correctly working of hardware acceleration in Chrome (Windows 7)?

I’m having troubles getting hardware acceleration support for Youtube.

Both Windows and flash player are enabled for hardware acceleration. The drivers for the graphics card are installed.

The statistics in Youtube still show ‘software video decoding’.

How can I confirm that hardware acceleration is correctly working (if…

How to: How does the CPU and GPU interact in displaying computer graphics? #solution #computers #answer

How does the CPU and GPU interact in displaying computer graphics?

Here you can see a screenshot of a small C++ program called Triangle.exe with a rotating triangle based on the OpenGL API.

Admittedly a very basic example but I think it’s applicable to other graphic cards operations.

I was just curious and wanted to know the whole process from double clicking on Triangle.exe under Windows XP…

Answer: Connecting a 2560×1440 display to a laptop? #solution #development #dev

Connecting a 2560×1440 display to a laptop?

Having read Jeff Atwood’s blog post on Korean 27″ IPS LCDs, I’ve been wondering to what extent these are useful in a notebook + large display situation.

I own a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E320 with 2nd gen. integrated Intel graphics. According to the spec from Intel, this should support HDMI version 1.4, and, using DisplayPort, resolutions up to 2560×1600.…

How to: How to make my display Grayscale? #computers #dev #it

How to make my display Grayscale?

I want to reduce the saturation of my laptop monitor to the point that it is almost grayscale. That’s the goal.

Intel and Asus don’t have an answer. Asus Splendid and the intel graphics control panel can increase the saturation, but not lower it.

I would prefer a software solution, although I DIY’ed a vga grayscale adapter for my desktop.

I have an Asus UL30A…

Fix: Converting DisplayPort and/or HDMI to DVI-D? #dev #solution #programming

Converting DisplayPort and/or HDMI to DVI-D?

Newer Radeon video cards come with four ports standard:

DVI (x2)

HDMI

DisplayPort

If I want to run three 24″ monitors, all of which are DVI only, from this video card is it possible to convert either the HDMI or DisplayPort to DVI? If so, how? And which one is easier/cheaper to convert?

I did a little research and it looks like there isn’t a simple…

Fixed: How to Use 3 Monitors #dev #programming #it

How to Use 3 Monitors

Right now my setup has a nice big 24″ flatscreen in the center with a 19″ flatscreen to the left. But I have a big gaping hole on the right.

I have a 3rd monitor to put there, but I’m not sure how to get the computer to recognize it. Do I need a graphics card with 3 ports? Can I span the monitors over non SLI-Linked graphics cards? Is it possible to plug my 3rd monitor into…