I bought a new and shiny ATI HD 4870 video card today. Had been using an Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS for some time and figured that it was time to update. I began by uninstalling all traces of Nvidia card drivers from the computer system (funny that I’m still stuck with an Nvidia Physx icon [...]
Create Video Card Profiles To Save Power And Reduce Noise
The following article is a guide to create profiles for the installed video card to optimize it for different applications, namely working on the desktop and gaming. The problem with running a video card in Windows is that the video card will always use the same clock and fan speeds no matter if it is [...]
NVIDIA System Tools
NVIDIA video card owners should definitely take a look at the NVIDIA System Tools suite which can be downloaded from NVIDIA. It is a set of system tools that have to be installed next to the video card drivers. The suite consists of three different tools which are installed separately during installation: NVIDIA Performance Group, [...]
GPU Caps Viewer
GPU Caps Viewer is a utility for graphics card that specializes on Open GL information. It does provide a general overview of the video card. The usual information are displayed in that tab like the video renderer, the version of the drivers, Bios and even the device id of the graphic card.
More interesting is [...]
Install the latest Nvidia Drivers on your Notebook
Graphic card drivers for notebooks are usually not updated that often by the manufacturer of the Notebook. Nvidia on the other hand does not provide access to many graphic card drivers for Notebook graphic cards on their website and the desktop graphic cards cannot be installed on notebooks.
The guys from Laptop Video 2 Go have [...]
Fix for Nwiz.exe Causing High CPU Load
Nwiz.exe is a component that gets installed when Nvidia video card drivers are installed on a system. It is automatically started with Windows which can be checked with the msconfig command. It is only beneficial on systems that use multiple monitors or tv out settings and can be easily disabled without causing ill or harm [...]
Fix for Missing Display Properties
It can happen that the tabs of the display properties are missing after installation of new drivers or a change of the video card. Only the contents of the first tab are displayed if this is happening and there is no obvious way on how to access the other tabs. The other tabs are still [...]
