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Graphics Cards
A piece of computer hardware that transforms binary data in the CPU into the viewable picture on the monitor of a computer. It is typically comprised mainly of memory, a processor heatsink, a processor fan, and a motherboard connection.
1,554 Questions
Can you download pixel shader 1.1 or better?
Pixel shader 1.1 (and later variants) are hard-coded into the video card and its drivers. If you have a fast processor and a good amount of ram, you may be able to get around the pixel shader requirement by downloading "3DAnalyze" and "Swiftshader 2.0" to emulate pixel shader.
More likely, the best option is for you to simply replace your video card with one which has native support for pixel shader. The above answer is dead on target! Let me add to this fire....... Although there are work-arounds to the pixel shader, it is ill-advised to download a patch or third party software to achieve what comes nativley in the newer vidio cards. The compitition is so tough in the industry, what would have been a top of the line video card last month, is now the cheapest card on the shelf! Remember that even if you do get a third party software to achieve what it is that you want in a display, the OS and computer will have to work harder to maintain the demands of not only the third party software, but any additional workload that the software generates. Memory allocation is reduced because the demand of the third party software is memory intensive. Thus, reduced performance. Emulatores do not work with every game, applications or systems. Not to mention, calling on the drivers to perform out of their scope, can also lead to corrupt system files and fragmentation of the system partition. Emulators temporarily "change" critical system and driver files per demand, to allow the system to adapt to the new drivers and dll files offered by the emulator. After the emulator is no longer needed, some times, the files don't get "put back" or restored to the defaults, and you have a mess on your hands! Listen to the answerer above, and get a new card! You need to get a better graphics card. However there is a way around it.
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has a tutorial for getting over the problem Pixel Shader is a hardware capability. Therefore, it is not possible to download it - it must be supported by the graphics card. To answer your question directly, you will need to install a graphics card that supports Pixel Shaders to be able to run games which need it. Most modern games utilize Pixel Shader 2.0 or greater, so it would not be advisable to purchase older ones. The following cards support Shader Model 1.x: - ATI Radeon 85xx Series (1.4) - ATI Radeon 9000 Series (1.4) - ATI Radeon 9100 Series (1.4) - ATI Radeon 92xx Series (1.4) - NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti (1.1) - NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti (1.3) The following cards support Shader Model 2.0: - ATI Radeon 95xx Series - ATI Radeon 96xx Series - ATI Radeon 9700 Series - ATI Radeon 9800 Series - ATI Radeon X7xx Series (2.0b) - ATI Radeon X8xx Series (2.0b) - NVIDIA GeForceFX Series (2.0a) The following cards support Shader Model 3.0: - ATI Radeon X1x00 Series - NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series - NVIDIA GeForce 7 Series The Vertex Shader and Pixel Shader are hardware capabilities, and therefore cannot be downloaded. A new graphics card, with the Vertex Shader and Pixel Shader technology, is the way to solve the problem. However, an Emulator can be downloaded in order to use games that require it. These programs are hard to find, and are mostly slow.
What do you do if your wakfu game says you need a graphic card driver update?
then you get a life looser.....there some information you have been needing (;
Can you take a graphics card out of a computer and put it into another one?
as long as the other computer has the correct expansion slot
Will Gmod work with graphic card Mobile IntelR 4 Series Express Chipset Family?
Well,It is very likely..If you have the right update for you video cards.To check what your video cards are called type this in your search browser,Can You RUN It?,now type in a really good game or something so you wont be able to play it.Scroll down and check your video cards and highlight it.Then type The name of your video cards in your web browser and after the video cards "update"
Hope It Helps,Bye!
For Nvidia graphics cards, get a 9500GT. Basic DX10 card with Shader 4.0 support. For ATI graphics cards, get a HD4670. Both cards don't require any of those 6 pin power supply connectors. You should be able to run either card with a 300W PSU (like those that come in HP or Dell OEM systems) provided you don't have 2 optical drives and 2 hard drives or a bunch of other things requiring power installed in PC.
PCI-E audio means that there is a separate sound card in a PCI Express port instead of on the motherboard. These generally offer better performance than those built into the board but usually cost more
What is the equivalent of Intel HD Graphics 3000 to Nvidia and AMD graphics?
ATI/AMD 6370m, 6450m, 5470m, mobility 4570 & 3670.
Nvidia 410m, GT 320m, 220m, 120m, are a little better, most ddr2 cards like 9600m GS, 9500m GS, 8600m GT etc are worse.
How do you download shader model 2?
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Shader model 2 is a feature on a graphics card ,
either the graphics card supports it or it doesnt.
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There are some games that have mods like shader model 2,
like a patch really, also in this case the GPU must support it.
Where can you download the software called nVidia Drivers?
google it, under nvidia drivers, it will bring you to there driver site where u have to fill in the os, card info etc like that.. it will then direct you to where your drivers for your card is.. so have the info ready ahead of time.
What are the types of computer according to size?
Computers Types and Uses
SMALL (portable)
- Palm computer / PDA / Iphone / linked phones --- remote access and applications; internet
- Notebook computer (smaller version of laptop) --- remote data retrieval; internet
- Laptop --- home, business, or remote location computing; networks; internet
MEDIUM (fixed)
- Desktop computer (PC) --- Home and office applications; data storage; networks; internet
- Workstation --- larger version of PC, network and server access and support
- Server --- operating system, network base, data and automation operations
LARGE (room size)
- Mainframe --- commercial information management, data storage and processing
- Supercomputer --- scientific research, intensive data processing (e.g. military logistics, weather forecasting, astronomy)
How can one learn about information graphics?
One can learn about information graphics from Amazon and Microsoft. Information graphics are visual representations of information and data and convey data to consumers. Adobe flash player uses information graphics to create images and games. Infographics can be hand drawn with pencils or on computer software programs.
Updated: 05-28-09
AnswerThis question and related questions are fairly generic. The solution is the same for most brands of computers and video cards such as pci, pci-e 8x,16x (pci express), pci-x (and older and obselete standard).Solution steps:0. Make sure you have the latest version of the video driver from the vendor that made the card. Often the CD that shipped with it is a year out of date or more. If it came out before xp sp3 or vista sp1 the drive many not work right. So download the latest.
1. Turn on PC and enter the BIOS / CMOS by tapping the del key or delete key or F2 (Intel) or F10 (HP Compaq) F12 (Dell?).
2a. On most systems you do not need to disable the onboard video card. Open your PC, add your new video card and move the monitor plug from the onboard video port to the video card you just installed. On boot the computer will sense that there is no monitor connected to the onboard video port and will disable it or at least will redirect the screen output to the newly installed video card. However, once windows has been installed with the onboard video card it may be marked as the "default" video device and limit the ability of games to perform properly. Games also may detect the onboard video card and quit because the onboard card is not fast enough. If you are still having problems perform step 2b.
2b. Turn off the computer, move the monitor plug from the onboard video port to the video card you just added. Repeat step1 then navigate to "onboard devices", for Dell this will probably be labeled Video or Display Settings. Disable onboard video. Now save the setting you just made in the bios by pressing F10 or choosing the save from the menu, you may have to press ESC key to get to main menu. Now boot windows and install the drivers for your video card.
3. in extreme cases after following step 2b if you many have to reinstall windows with the onboard video card disabled so no drivers are ever installed. This is a "best practice" for serious gamers and results in the cleanest install. This way the onboard video card is never seen by windows and no drivers are present. Remember, driver files are usually left behind and are not removed by the uninstall. If you arn't ready to wipe off your system you could unplug your hard drive and plug in a test hard drive and perform a clean install windows (don't use the recovery disk) and test out if this yields better results).
Last resort: If you are still having problems with the uninstall, go into the device manager in windows and double click on the Intel video (or onboard video card), at the bottom of the page that comes up is "USE THIS DEVICE" choose instead to not use this device. Restart windows and see if this helps. Also make sure you have the most up to date drivers for the video card you are using and if so, right click on your desktop and choose properties and make sure the resolution and color depth are set to the correct settings, like 1024x768 32bit
Optional Reading:an example of an unusual and complex onboard video graphics driver situation:
Updated: 10-03-08 This system described in the next paragraphs is a "bare bones system" for oem's resellers / value added resellers. The bios is limited and does not have the ability to disable the onboard video card. Disable device is not an option, unfortunately, in windows 2000 sp4.
I am tasked with a project at work with an old samba PC (not to be confused with Linux) It's actually an FIC (first international computer) branded motherboard model VC37 revision IEM42 0601 with integrated Intel 845 graphics and the uninstaller fails to uninstall the driver both from the control panel and the actual driver in device manager. I added an old pci video card but the dispay is all wacky. In the bios turbo mode is disabled but there is no option to disable the onboaard video. Although the system correctly uses the addin video card the picture is a mess. Reloading the OS is not an option.
The uninstall for the Intel drivers fails to actually uninstall the drivers. I performed a manual "uninstall" by removing the entries in the registry and deleting the files used by the video card in c:\winnt\system32 and \winnt\...\drivers but that didn't help either.
A co-worker discovered that the newer asus 945G computer that we are trying to port the image to is setup for ACPI and while the older samba 845 is not, it is set to "standard PC". We now believe this difference is the core of our problem.
Whats theNumber of card slots on a motherboard?
Depends what motherboard you get. Some have one, and some have 6. Really depends
What are differences between aliasing and anti aliasing?
I'll take a shot at this, though it's a bit difficult to explain. OK.
Let's say you've got an array of pixels:
12345
67890
ABCDE
If you try to draw a single black pixel line at 45 degrees on
a white background it's going to hit parts of, say,
45
89
AB
But pixels are indivisable, so each of those pixels is either on
(white) or off (black). Anti-aliasing attempts to correct for this
by painting the various pixels touched by the line in various
shades of grey. When viewed from a distance, the greys blend
nicely and the line appears much closer to the desired result.
This approach minimizes the "jagged line" affect when lines or
edges are at some angle other than horizontal or vertical.
So..."aliasing" is just what happens if you don't have some sort
of "anti-aliasing" technology to solve the problem.
All in all, a relatively simple concept...but difficult to explain!
Dave
A pixel shader is a set of program codes which is usually built into a video graphics chipset and drivers. Its purpose is to enable more lifelike lighting effects on 3d models, usually for gaming. Pixel shader technology has been instrumental in recent advancements in 3d graphics technology. Many new games require a certain level of pixel shader technology. While it is possible to emulate this using software, it is much more stable, and results in much better performance if the system is upgraded with a new video card with built-in pixel shader technology. Pixel shader 1.1 2.0 3.0 and the like refer to different versions of pixel shader technology. They are backwards compatible, so if you have pixel shader 3.0 you can run anything requiring 1.1 or 2.0 as well. Answer: A pixel shader is a type of shader program, often executed on a graphics processing unit. It is typically used for scene lighting and related effects such as bump mapping and color toning, which provide crisper and more realistic graphics. Microsoft's Direct3D and Silicon Graphics' OpenGL support pixel shaders. In OpenGL, however, a pixel shader is called a fragment shader
What if you just plug one cable into a graphics card that needs 2 6-pin connectors?
the graphics card will not function. if the card needs both connectors, there is a reason for it. you may be able to get it to start up but you will receive a message saying that the power is insufficient and doing anything graphics demanding (even looking at a picture) may make the computer shut off. using 1 connector is not recommended at all and will make the system completely unstable. if you only have 1 cable available, your power supply will probably not be enough for the graphics card anyways
What is the benefits to install a graphics card on PC?
The use of GRAPHICS cards increases overall system performance.
Graphics cards free up the CPU and RAM for other uses so it will increase the performance of your Laptop for any uses.
A Laptop with slow processor will outperform the latest fast Laptop if equipped with a fast graphics card.
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Will a PC run without a graphics card?
Yes, but if there is no on board graphics, there will be no video, but yes, the computer will still run.
Actually, many PCs will NOT run without some sort of video display device. The BIOS expects a video card, and failure to locate one will cause the system to fail POST and refused to boot.
Some PCs (mostly servers) have a specialized BIOS that avoids this problem, and instead outputs the display via a serial port or (more commonly now) a specialized Management Controller chip. These systems no longer need any sort of video card to boot.
