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A video card, display card, graphics card, or graphics adapter is an expansion card which generates a feed of output images to a display.

Most video cards offer various functions such as accelerated rendering of 3D scenes and 2D graphics, MPEG-2/MPEG-4 decoding, TV output, or the ability to connect multiple monitors (multi-monitor).

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USB-connected external graphics card

Is there any way in any Linux-based OS to access the instructions sent to have it transfer the instructions meant for the GPU to an external device connected via USB3.0 (and, obviously get the pixel output back)? In Windows there is no native…
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Is there a difference between a good development video card and general gaming video cards?

For reference, this would be for Visual Studio 2008 with a fair amount of WinForms working with the VS Designer. Given the same price bracket, would there be certain specs you look for in a development rig vs what one would get for a gaming…
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(linux) How can I know inside a c++ program if Opengl 4 is supported?

I would like to detect inside my C++ program if opengl 4 is supported on the running computer. I don't know if I search on google and stackoverflow with wrong/bad terms (my english skill...), but surprisingly I didn't found any example... I would…
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How to get multiple graphic cards information using nsis?

I am trying to create an installer using NSIS and there is one custom page for checking hardware requirement. Currently, I am using the HwInfo plug-in, but the problem is the function GetVideoCardName only return 1 graphic card name even though the…
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Unable to launch Android Emulator and Genymotion because of video card error in Windows 8.

I'm unable to launch the android emulator as well as genymotion emulator as I get an error as below. I use a SONY VAIO, windows-8, 64 bit system. And my graphics driver is ATI Radeon HD 5000 series. I have the drivers up-to-date. Yet I get this…
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Detecting Nvidia Graphics card on Ubuntu running on a VM

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on VmWare 9. When I tried to install the Nvidia drivers, its unable to detect the hardware (GEForce GT 540M). Is there a workaround? OS: Windows 8
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OpenGL: Rendering a video using PBO's creating a jerk

I have a set of RGB Frames which i'm displaying using openGL's PBO concept. Below is my code: #include #include #include "glew.h" #include "glfw.h" #include "glaux.h" #include "logodata.h" PFNGLGENBUFFERSARBPROC…
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How to tell the graphic card memory usage?

My application seems to be slow, but in terms of CPU and RAM, it seems that it is OK. So, I want to know how much memory of the graphic card I am using. I've seen some questions about this on SO, but they talk about Linux or NVidia. I would like to…
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Why can't horizontal span be implemented on Vista?

Until Windows Vista, ATI and nVidia supported a feature called horizontal span, which combined two monitors into a single larger screen. This feature allows the taskbar to span across both monitors, allows games to be played in fullscreen across…
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How to run build using graphics drivers by using optirun (Bumblebee) from IDE (Netbeans, Eclipse)?

Does anyone know how to make eclipse or netbeans use the graphics card in optimus laptops by invoking optirun (bumblebee) inside the IDE so that one can just use the run button in the IDE to run the program in a graphics card within the IDE. In…
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is there a program to simulate a graphics card

I am pretty new to assembly language and I want to interface with a graphics card to draw a pixel or something. I am wondering if there is a program I could use that I could interface with to draw a pixel in the program or the screen. Thanks.
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nvidia-smi first detects card only with priviledged users (root / sudo)

I have an eGpu connected to a laptop with a mobile graphics card on a Ubuntu-based Linux system (Pop!_OS). My eGpu graphics card is not detected when running the $ nvidia-smi command as a regular user. However, my internal graphics card is…
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Vulkan, is it possible to have a device with no depthBounds feature?

The main question is in the title. I got a strange bug with an Intel UHD 620 under Linux, vulkan API report there is no depthBounds feature. It sound very strange, because this feature is required to perform depth testing.
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Setup adoptopenjdk 11 with key NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching

Can't solve problem with adoptopenjdk. I've to use key NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching in Info.plist But Java using a discrete video card. What I'm doing wrong ? NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching …
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How to apply shaders to the final HDMI video output of a computer?

I'd like to be able to apply a custom final shader to the HDMI output of my PC before its sent out to my monitor. For example, let's say I'm watching a youtube video of an old documentary; I'd like to be able to apply a shader to the entire display…
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