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how to improve my desktop graphics performance?

Anonymous
2013-06-08T10:28:16+00:00

i'm using a nvidia geforce 410m graphic card with 1Gb memory installed on SONY VAIO VPCEG38FN running on Windows 8 Pro 64 Bit but while performing a rating in pc info the rating is only 4.5 i.e due to low performance of desktop graphics driver.please help me on how to improve performance in it.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-06-08T10:50:07+00:00

    You need to look into the driver that is being used for your graphics card.  Did you machine come with Windows 8 installed, or did it come with windows 7 and you have upgraded it to windows 8?  If the latter it is possible that the upgrade process did not find a suitable Windows 8 driver and instead used the Basic Video driver.

    Have a look in Device Manager at the driver in use for your video card.  If it is not an NVidia driver, check on the Sony and/or NVidia web sites for up to date drivers for your card. Even if an NVidia driver is installed, check for a more up to date driver.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-03-24T17:02:41+00:00

    I am using radeon hd 5450 graphic card in windows 8 but my graphic subscore is 3.6 . Still the pc is working fine but please tell if my pc could be made better.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-03-05T18:44:03+00:00

    I echo the excellent advice given by SC Tom & Trevor.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-02-28T06:28:10+00:00

    hey can you help me I have windows 8 and I have arma3 my fps was 15 and I was talking to some guys and they were telling me I need a new graphic card and I don't know what to do maby you can help me find a cheap card or help improve it

    ARMA3----------game

    I have windows8

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-06-08T11:57:03+00:00

    Other than checking for the latest drivers (as Trevor suggested), there really isn't much you can do to improve that score. I have two laptops, one a Win8 Acer with Intel graphics and the other a Win7 Gateway with an ATI dedicated graphics card, and on both of them, the desktop graphics is the lowest score. I've worked on other laptops with both Win7 and Win8 and found that to be true with them also, for the most part. I think it's because of the "Mobile" GPU; they are designed to use a little less power (hence lower speed) than a desktop add-in card. The Gateway I have is probably the best of any I've worked on (because of the dedicated RAM and HD GPU), but it's battery life is terrible.

    Another thing to remember is that these numbers are just that- numbers. If your system is running fine, and you aren't seeing any slow-downs or freezing, or BSOD, I wouldn't worry about it. I used to run all kinds of benchmark programs in the past, thinking my systems just didn't match up to similar ones, but gave up on all that since it all it did was frustrate me and make me spend more money :-) If your laptop works for you, then all the numbers in the world mean absolutely nothing.

     SC Tom

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