Sometimes it happens that the powerful user processor and the best video card do not give the desired result: "Friza" appear in the games, and the graphic editors work slowly. Do not hurry to accuse the components in all, because they need to fully configure them for correct work. For example, your video card needs permanently in fresh and updated drivers, manual prioritization. If you are a sophisticated user, you can pay attention and optimize the video card in third-party utilities for fine tuning. You will find a manual for all these actions in this article. Try to repeat and your video card will work much faster.
How to configure the video card: Driver Update
As a rule, two video cards can stand on your computer or laptop: integrated and discrete. The first fulfills the basic tasks and is not designed for high-performance games and multitasking, the second type of video cards is just suitable for complex processes, they are produced by such giants like NVIDIA and AMD. And the one, and the other video card should always have fresh drivers.
By default, any discrete video card has its own special client, which constantly updates the drivers and does not give them out. But sometimes it happens that you just forgot it to install. Then the drivers will have to be changed with their own hands. At this point, you will learn how to install drivers yourself, as well as install a client for your video card.
- Open the start on your computer and go to the control panel.
- Lay the section "Equipment and sound" highlighted in green. Go to it.
- Now you need the link "Device Manager". Click on it. Please note that there is a shield icon next to this section, which means only the administrator can go into it. Change your account if necessary.
- In the window that opens, find the item "Video adapter". If you have two video cards, you will see two items, if one is, respectively, only one.
- So you will find out the exact names of your video cards and you can install drivers. Right-click on the video card name and select the "Update Drivers" item.
- Immediately the page will open in the browser where you can download them.
- Another, more convenient and modern way - customers for video cards. For example, for the adapters of the NVIDIA series you can download the client GeForce Experience.. Follow the link and click "Download". Please note that the AMD video cards provides other provision on the official AMD Radeon website.
- Once you download and install the program, such a dark window will appear. It has the "Drivers" tab. Click on it and you will see how many drivers need to be updated. The main convenience is that all links are already collected for you in the program window, you can install drivers on the "Download" button.
How to set up a video card: global settings
Now you can go to more serious settings that will affect optimization and performance.
- Open the tray of the computer and find the icon of your video card. Press it right-click and select "Control Panel". The example will be shown on the NVIDIA map.
In the window that opens there is only three points. You will have to go to each of them to configure correctly. In the first menu "Adjust the Image Settings" you need to put the slider in the desired tape.
- At one end is the word "performance", and on the other - "quality".
- If you will pull the slider towards quality, then the picture in the game will be clearer and better, but it will be needed more resources.
- If you are not sure that your computer can cope with it, it is better to give preference to performance, sacrifting the quality of graphics.
In the second tab, "3D control" you have to independently set the video card type for one or another process. In the "Software Settings" section, select a program or game in the first paragraph, and in the second - a video card that will perform this process. For example, for complex tasks, editors and games, it is better to deliver discrete, and for the lungs - integrated.
In the latest tab, the PHYSX configuration setting is better to install auto break. So the client himself will determine when to transfer the process to a discrete video card, and when it is on the inner.
How to configure a video card: fine tuning
- You have already completed all the steps that are needed to configure the video card, however, if you are a sophisticated user and want to follow all the processes in the system, then you should install the program GPU-Z.. This utility allows you to look at the temperature of the video card, its condition, speed and other parts. Download and install it.
- After startup, you will see such a window. At the bottom there is a video card switch. You can see the parameters of both a discrete and integrated card.
- This important indicator as the temperature is in the "Sensors" tab. If an indicator at 80 or more, then you need to think about changing the video card and updating components. If you decide to dispersed the video card, you can read about it in the article how to overclock the NVIDIA video card
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