by Enjay » Wed Sep 22, 2021 9:10
Being a miser could also be a hobby - and a much more cash efficient one than golfing or gaming.
In the past, I've had no end of problems with intel graphics. I'm never entirely sure whether it's down to the hardware or the drivers but so often getting the card to do what it is meant to be doing, and claims to be able to do (especially where OpenGL is concerned) is just far too difficult, if not impossible.
Sometimes a driver update helps, sometimes you need to roll back. It seems utterly random and the intel support and clarity over driver downloads is abysmal. I find it hard to believe that they are still able to sell machines with those awful graphics cards, with their awful reputations but then, I guess, most machines with them are sold as work machines where a cheap and functional-enough graphics chip is all you need to run Windows and MS Office. Even then, intel chips so often simply don't seem to actually be able to do what they tell the system they are capable of.
We have several computers in the house (a function of "children" who are old enough to leave home but who steadfastly refuse to do so, and almost everyone in the house reluctant to throw out old machines until they are really past their sell-by date, my son literally nearly broke his toe two nights ago as he wandered across his bedroom in the dark and collided with the corner of a 15 year old PC that hasn't bee switched on for years) but only one of the ones that are actively used has an intel chip that I have managed to get a decent driver setup for which works with Win10 - and then just not touched the driver since (to be fair, it's really just an "emails and letters" machine, but it can play games). The only other machine with an intel chip that sometimes gets used is a very old laptop that sits in the garage for the sole purpose of playing music when I'm working on a car (and it often fails to boot because the CMOS battery is all but dead, and sealed in in such a way as to make it near impossible to replace).
For a long time now, we have always just gone for nVidia. My experience with their cards has always been positive and even if very rare minor problems have occurred, a driver update has fixed them. Sometimes it is a little hard to find a laptop with an nVidia card without spending too much money, especially if you are just buying off the shelf, but I have managed to get a good price from online companies that allow you to tailor the spec of a machine and thereby get a reasonably priced machine with an nVidia graphics chip.
None of which, of course, helps your current situation.
Being a miser could also be a hobby - and a much more cash efficient one than golfing or gaming. ;)
In the past, I've had no end of problems with intel graphics. I'm never entirely sure whether it's down to the hardware or the drivers but so often getting the card to do what it is meant to be doing, and claims to be able to do (especially where OpenGL is concerned) is just far too difficult, if not impossible.
Sometimes a driver update helps, sometimes you need to roll back. It seems utterly random and the intel support and clarity over driver downloads is abysmal. I find it hard to believe that they are still able to sell machines with those awful graphics cards, with their awful reputations but then, I guess, most machines with them are sold as work machines where a cheap and functional-enough graphics chip is all you need to run Windows and MS Office. Even then, intel chips so often simply don't seem to actually be able to do what they tell the system they are capable of.
We have several computers in the house (a function of "children" who are old enough to leave home but who steadfastly refuse to do so, and almost everyone in the house reluctant to throw out old machines until they are really past their sell-by date, my son literally nearly broke his toe two nights ago as he wandered across his bedroom in the dark and collided with the corner of a 15 year old PC that hasn't bee switched on for years) but only one of the ones that are actively used has an intel chip that I have managed to get a decent driver setup for which works with Win10 - and then just not touched the driver since (to be fair, it's really just an "emails and letters" machine, but it can play games). The only other machine with an intel chip that sometimes gets used is a very old laptop that sits in the garage for the sole purpose of playing music when I'm working on a car (and it often fails to boot because the CMOS battery is all but dead, and sealed in in such a way as to make it near impossible to replace).
For a long time now, we have always just gone for nVidia. My experience with their cards has always been positive and even if very rare minor problems have occurred, a driver update has fixed them. Sometimes it is a little hard to find a laptop with an nVidia card without spending too much money, especially if you are just buying off the shelf, but I have managed to get a good price from online companies that allow you to tailor the spec of a machine and thereby get a reasonably priced machine with an nVidia graphics chip.
None of which, of course, helps your current situation. :(