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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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Does the 32-bit addressing limit (of a 32-bit application) include dedicated video memory?

Can a 32-bit application utilize more than 4GB between system RAM and video RAM? Context: Some games (for instance, Skyrim) are compiled under 32-bit architectures. I am running a 64-bit system with 16GB of DDR3 on the motherboard and 4GB of GDDR5…
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Stencil Buffer in Opengl

Stencil test in OpenGL Red Book says: the stencil test takes place only if there is a stencil buffer. How can I find out, if there is a stencil buffer in my OpenGL / graphics card implementation ?
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Can we use Nvidia graphic card in apple M1 pro laptop

Does Apple m1 pro support the Integrated Graphics Nvidia?It has its own Apple GPU?Can we use Integrated Graphics Nvidia in Apple m1 pro instead of its own Apple GPU? Does Apple m1 pro support the Dedicated Graphics Card Nvidia?
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Ubuntu NVIDIA Driver Change now Won't Boot into Unity

I was having problems with OpenGL support on my video card on UBuntu, so I went into Software & Updates, additional drivers, and changed the driver. There were 3 drivers listed, and the one i was on was XOrg, which I understand is some kind of…
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How to fix "Failed to create graphics device.Exiting" error?

Win7(64), nvdia 960. All of a sudden 90% of my games stopped working. My oldest game (GOC 1998) works using dxwnd. My newest game (For Honor-online 2017) still works, but Total War, Tropico4 and Americas Army doesnt detect my graphics card…
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Connect two extra monitors to laptop

I have following models of graphics card in my DELL Inspiron 5520 15R: lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro…
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Write Directly to Video Buffer in Modern OS

I want to draw a red line on my monitor directly writing to memory from my C++ code. I know that modern operating system protect physical memory and it is hard to do. Assuming that I know video card that I`m currently using (it is nVidia GeForce…
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how to know if my video card supports OpenGL ES 2.0?

the error of Genymotion when i start the API23-6.0.0 Unable to start virtual device to start virtual devices, make sure your video card supports OpenGL 2.0 and update the driver so, how to know if my video card supports OpenGL ES 2.0 and if there ,…
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How to use cuda stream priority on GTX970?

Recently nvidia released cuda 7.5, and announced that the interface should be able to be used on other Video cards, not just quadro and tesla. But as I tested on my GTX 970, the cudaDeviceGetStreamPriorityRange retuns -1 and 0. The compute…
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is mi notebook 14 graphics card switchable

I want to buy a mi notebook 14. In the spec sheet it says it has a Nvidia graphics card. I know a few friends who bought a laptop with dedicated graphics card, but they cant change the graphics card system wide. There is a way to change the graphics…
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