gaming performance

Hi all, Since I bought this computer, about 1.5 years ago, it will randomly BSOD while gaming. I play a variety of games and eventually it will always crash. It never does it while only chrome or some other apps such as discord are active. At first it crashed maybe once per month but recently...

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Hi. I tried to reproduce 2 times display driver crash. When i run 3dmark time spy stress test. I turn off monitor and then turn on again it will stop test and display TDR crash report in event viewer. Is this reason to worry? This happened 2 times when i turn off montor and turn on back. I tried...

Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17017 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring and for those who opted in to Skip Ahead. Going forward, we plan to release new builds for RS4 from the RS_PRERELEASE branch to Insiders in the Fast ring and those...

Since the update my MSI Gaming laptop with a nVidia GeForce 650m graphics card is not able to play games any longer without lagging horribly even on lowest graphics settings. Please help. Tried reinstalling the nVidia drivers and re-installed them but they are not the issue. Game and drivers...

Today at PAX West, Dell unveiled all-new Alienware gaming notebooks with Windows 10, including the introduction of its thinnest and first-ever VR-ready notebooks. To celebrate its 20th anniversary as a leading pioneer in specialty high-performance PC gaming systems, this new line of notebooks...

Hi all, I'm having an issue and nowhere on the internet I can find people exclaiming the same problem, so here I go: My primary gaming monitor is connected through DVI (144hz). My secondary monitor is connected through HDMI (TV). The gaming monitor is great for gaming, of course, and the...

Hello all, I just recently got a new HP 23 g010 all in one desktop. I'm not into gaming anymore so not too worried about that. I just wanted something reliable and decently quick, so I got this for $290 and just added 4GB to make it a total of 8GB. It came with windows 8.1 and I hated it so i...

Today, Lenovo announced its new lineup of premium PCs loaded with Windows 10, the latest in technology and stylish designs for business professionals and PC gamers. The lineup includes the new Lenovo Y Series, the ThinkPad Yoga and ThinkCentre, the ThinkPad E Series, the updated Lenovo M, B and...

The first game to use DX12 is Ashes of the Singularity an RTS based game. Testing shows that DX12 does improve performance although it varies depending on choice of card: Dx12 runs far better on the AMD cards than Dx11 does so they will see the most benefit in this instance. Other games...

Well I'm 3 days into my Win 10 experience. There are some cool things but nothing that would make me run out and pay actual money for the upgrade. I'm sure it's just because it's an early release but everything seems slower in Win 10 and this is from upgrade on a fresh install of Win 7 less than...

Windows 10 will see the release of DX12 which like AMD's Mantle see's the bulk of work spread across all the CPU's cores instead of just the first core taking all the brunt. Now with the latest update of 3DMark (you'll need a full licence) users can see for themselves what a major change DX12...

My brother and I built identical Windows 8 PCs earlier this year, we were both virgin system builders. His has been stable but mine has been crashing a lot, something in the order of 50 BSoD in 5 months. I've been trying to solve it myself but I'm running out of ideas. It has never been stable...

I have a HP Pavilion dv6-6121se Link Removed i recently upgraded to windows 8 pro and my games got slower and in game options i could only select directx 9 until later i got battlefield 4 and it says gpu cant buffer frame and it said gpu was intel hd 3000 i checked system info and saw it...

my windows experience index is showing 1.0 only. all other is good except graphics and gaming graphics both of which is 1.0 now the mechanic installed everything today. i suspect that he hasnt installed nvidia gt 630 that i brought. cuz theres only one folder named "NVIDIA corporation" which...

I am having a problem with BSOD on a fresh and updated version of Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. My computer is a Gateway GT5678 with a Nvidia 9800GT video card, AUZEN XPlosion 7.1 Sound card and a Western Digital Raptor 74GB Hard Drive as my main drive. I received 2 seperate BSOD while running...

After much research on this issue I am pleased to say I found a fix that works. This method may also work for other ATI radeon HD cards as well. Follow these instructions closely and be sure not to deviate to much from them. I just installed Windows 8 Release Preview on my laptop, and as...

Hii am facing a regular BSOD problem from past few days.actually everytime when i play high graphics games or do multi tasking and use much of RAM size.Then everytime my gets restart, sometimes long time use of pc also makes my pc restart.so i entered msconfig, and there i disabled some start up...

Ross Cameron, Mike Fara, and Michael Myles, come together to host, discuss, evaluate, and explain the Microsoft Windows 8 operating system to each other and the broader audience at large. We talk about the Metro UI Start Screen, gaming performance, showing off new featres, and the learning...