Questions tagged [gpu]
Processor specifically designed to perform fast memory manipulation, with instructions specifically tailored to handle computer graphics processing and rendering
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My PC is making a weird clicking noise
Today I cleaned my PC and after that I recognized a weird clicking/ticking noise. It's not really loud and it seems to come from the area around my GPU. It sounds like a fan slightly hitting something,...
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Wine is using the wrong GPU out of 2 dedicated GPUs installed
I have 2 GPUs installed, a 1080ti (which i have 1 display connected to) and a 1660ti without any displays connected.
I am running an application with Wine, and it crashes on startup. There are some ...
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Unable to load Nvidia drivers in QEMU virtual machine
I have an Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS on an Alienware Aurora R6 (i7-7700 CPU with a Nvidia GTX 1080). I am relatively new to type-1 hypervisor and have some experience with type-2 (VirtualBox).
On the ...
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Unable to access BIOS after enabling secure boot (no screen output)
I disabled CSM and enabled secure boot on my Gigabyte Aorus b550 AC with a EVGA GTX 1080.
Every time I boot up my machine, it boots straight into Windows (dual-boot system with ReFind as bootloader) ...
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Graphic card and GPU power Source
I have recently bought a new graphic card, and after inserting it into the PC I discover it need an auxiliary power source:
The thing is, I no not have a cable 'ready' for this.
I have another socket ...
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Windows crashes my GPU
This issue started 3 days ago.
Upon the sign-in screen, my screen starts flickering and I see weird glitchy graphical artifacts in the loading wheel. After a little while, my GPU would crash and my ...
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When is overclocking GPU unsafe?
I went to AMD Radeon Software to overclock my GPU for the first time, and it said that if I damage the GPU by overclocking it they won't be responsible. So the question arises: when is overclocking a ...
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Weird transparency bug that happens with fullscreen or maximized applications
CPU: i9-10980HK
GPU 0 (Integrated): Intel UHD Graphics
GPU 1 (Discrete): RTX 3070 Laptop
I have no clue what I'm looking at. I had updated Chrome, Zoom, Nvidia Drivers and I tried restoring all of ...
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Can windows switch between integrated and dedicated gpu without restarting an application
I wanted to mimic Windows behavior of switching GPUs on Linux (Pop!_OS) now that it supports running certain applications on the discrete graphics card while the rest runs on the integrated one.
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Why isn't my GPU using all dedicated memory before using shared memory?
According to Task Manager, I'm only using <6 GB of my GTX 1070's 8GB of dedicated GPU memory before starting to use shared memory. IIUC, using shared memory imposes a heavy performance penalty, as ...
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GPU causing black screen
I bought a used Radeon RX 470 GPU from China. Sometimes it works great but usually, at seemingly random moments, the screen will go black, the computer continues running. I have windows 10 pro ...
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Completely disconnecting monitor when rendering
In my pc, I render animations with octane renderer. I often leave it overnight on. I want to completely disconnect the monitor from pc. In this case, is disconnecting it from the gpu through hdmi will ...
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Computer randomly freezes one app at a time
The problem
My PC (Windows 10) randomly freezes a few times a day, first the app which is focused at the moment, then anything I try to interact with, from other apps to the Start Menu. During those ...
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GPU passthrough in Ubuntu 18.04
I'm trying to set up GPU passthrough for KVM.
I edited /etc/default/grub:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash iommu=pt intel_iommu=on video=efifb:off"
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sudo update-grub
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Code 43 Error when using eGPU enclosure with Bootcamp
I am trying to use my GTX 1080 on my MacBook with Bootcamp (Windows 10) with a Razer Core X Chroma external GPU extender, but about 3 quarters of the time when I launch Windows, I get the Code 43 ...
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eGPUs for 3D content creation
Note: I realize the "discussion-ness" of this topic, so I'll try my best to phrase it as a question
I'm interested to know the effectiveness of an eGPU for 3D content creation (animation, game dev, ...
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determine cause of auto shutdown when playing games
The problem
When playing a game, the computer suddenly shuts down, although not completely because some fans (maybe the GPU's) are still running and the light on the power button is still lit. I ...
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Audio garbled (also causes video stutter) when outputting sound via GPUs HDMI
When I output sound through the HDMI port on my GPU, sometimes the sound comes out all garbled (It sometimes returns to normal after a while, sometimes it doesn't). The best way I can describe it is ...
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Do either Dragon or Windows Speech Recognition use a dedicated graphics card or GPU when one is available?
Dragon and Windows Speech Recognition are two popular programs used for voice-to-text dictation and operation of a computer by voice. On my well appointed but 7-year-old laptop, both of these ...
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Dual bootable Windows VM
I want to use Linux (Arch) as my main operating system. But sometimes I need to use software which is only available on Windows (and not supported by Wine) or I want to play some games. So I found two ...
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GPU for web browsing, developing?
I owned a 10-year old laptop with Core2 Duo chip and Radeon HD 4650 GPU, running Windows 7 Pro. I was able to use Chrome or Firefox with 100+ tabs open and have very few problems or glitches.
Now I ...
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All chrome windows suddenly turned completely black, probably GPU Glitch
I've launched Chrome explicitly forcing it to use the dedicated GPU in my laptop.
After a while a sudden graphical glitch occured, which turned all the open Chrome windows completely black including ...
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Games keep crashing on newly built PC [closed]
I recently built a new PC for a friend. The components are:
Ryzen 7 2700X
RTX 2070 Super Windforce OC
16 Gb 3200 MHz Vengeance PRO RGB RAM
Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite
750 Watt Corsair Power Supply
I ...
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A Tale of AMDGPU-PRO on Debian (2019) - What do I do if I install AMDGPU-PRO and now can't even get a splash screen?
There are a number of threads on StackExchange about AMDGPU-PRO (such as here, and here), but there seem to be a number of variables that can go wrong, and in my unique case, none of the threads I ...
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Could a damaged internal disk that is just under power cause the OS to stop responding?
Recently a friend of mine had problems with his Desktop PC and more general the PC got slower (Windows -7-, so this is not strange to me) and had some problems like stop responding from time to time.
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packet_write_wait: Connection to x.x.x.x: Broken pipe
I have been running codes on Google cloud GPU for some days now. Recently, a problem occurred frequently and had become a headache of mine for days.
For some time, an error message will occur
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Is 99 percent anhydrous isopropyl alcohol safe for gpu mobo etc?
I normally clean my GPU and motherboard with 91 percent isopropyl alcohol but it leaves an oily looking film even though the bottle says the inactive ingredient is water. I found some MG Chemicals 99 ...
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Does a single Tesla K80 look like one GPU or two in Windows 10?
Does a Tesla K80 appear as 1 GPU or 2 in Windows 10 with standard NVidia drivers. It is CUDA Compute Level 3.5. That is good enough for TensorFlow. It is good enough for Torch and other packages? ...
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How to check if a GPU is an OpenCL compatible GPU supporting the OpenCL extension cl_khr_byte_addressable_store and image objects
I'm using the computer vision library MVTec Halcon. I've gotten Halcon to work well with an NVIDIA GTX 1070/1080 in a desktop computer and with a Quadro P2000 in a server.
However, I can't seem to ...
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YARN 3 and Spark: allocate a GPU
I can't find the working Spark option to require executors with a GPU.
I'm trying to setup a HADOOP cluster in order to run Machine Learning algorithms on available GPUs via Spark.
So far I'm trying ...
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NVIDIA GTX 1050ti overheats when training neural nets
When I'm training neural nets on laptop, my gpu gets 95c and laptop becomes very hot. Is it safe ? Do I need to underclock ?
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Hide GPU from an app, and force the program to use CPU to do software rendering?
I have a somewhat old version of some photo editing software that is having issues with my current video card.
Is there a way to hide my GPU from this program in order to force the CPU to do software ...
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PSU required wattage
I am planning on buying, when it's released, an i7-9700k with an Asus Z390 Maximus Hero XI and a 1070ti. I currently own a Corsair H100i V2, 2x 8gb Kingston ddr4, 3x thermaltake riing 120mm fans.
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Using a graphics card on a PCIEX4 slot
This is, in a way, more of a hypothetical question, not something I'm seriously considering, but I am curious to know how feasible or useful it would be.
The scenario is: The computer has a graphics ...
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GPU and dedicated running at the same time, how to disable?
My laptop has issues with core temperatures that reach to 97 celcius(205 fahrenheit) sometimes.
So, i put my cpu to a stress test and with all cores at 100%, the temperature was only 65 degrees (149 ...
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Drivers to implement vGPU (GPU over IP)?
Have two computers: one at home (without GPU) – and another (with an nVidia CUDA GPU) leased at a data center (cloud computing) or collecting dust at a friend’s home.
Has anyone developed a driver ...
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Does GPU help a web developer? [closed]
As a web developer I plan to upgrade my current laptop. I rarely spend my time on video gaming. However I wonder does a powerful GPU help me in any other aspect of computing? A good GPU increases the ...
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How do I know if a desktop GPU supports OpenGL ES?
I have a NVidia GTX 1050 TI desktop GPU. Its spec sheet doesn't say whether it support OpenGL ES, but my preliminary tests suggest that it does.
The reason I want ES on a desktop is that I'm ...
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Is my GPU rendering two screen at a time
I am using a Dell Inspiron 14r, whose display screen is not working properly. It's just a white and dotted black screen, right now I can't buy a new one, I am using Window 8. So I made my laptop ...
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Why won't my computer boot after installing my new GTX 1050?
I have this pc (https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02838702) and I installed a Corsair CS-M 550W PSU so I can upgrade the gpu. I bought an EVGA GTX 1050 (not TI) and after installing, the boot ...
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One long three short beeps when installing GTX 1070
So for a while I had a 550 Ti on my computer for a while. Today my GTX 1070 arrived and it was really pity that I couldn't get it working. After I replaced the GPU, I tried to boot up but it all ended ...
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How do I install the drivers for the GTX 1050 ti in Linux?
I purchased the GTX 1050 TI,
I went to nvidia.com and chose
the right modelname from the
Drop-Down menue, whereupon
this download link emerged:
nvidia driver for linux
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Why tools like afterburner, wattool, need us to disable motherboard GPU?
I have a motherboard with 6 GPU (for mining)
To make sure that the computer always boot even though the GPU have wrong bios or whatever, I simply connect the screen to motherboard HDMI. Even that is ...
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How do I manually install a driver for the GPU msi R9 290x gaming 4GB? [closed]
I bought a second-hand pc,
it works, but the GPU does not Show up inside the device Manager.
I downloaded the AMD catalyst Software, but it failed repeatedly during installation.
I want to try to ...
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Is it possible to redirect some GPU load to CPU (In games)?
I have a laptop of a relatively weak GPU (GTX 950M, 2Gb DDR3), but with rather powerful quad core CPU (i7 6300HQ), and plenty of memory (DDR4 16Gb).
I noticed that most games uses GPU to its full ...
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Disable nouveau before installation
I'm trying to install Antergos in a laptop with an optimus card. However, it freezes when I have to choose a desktop flavor. Searching on the net I found here that the problem lies in the gpu. There's ...
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Is there any way to tell which graphics processor is working in a laptop?
I have a Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop which has both a discrete GPU (ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650) and an integrated GP (Intel HD Graphics). A few days ago I started to get BSOD with the atikmpag.sys ...
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optirun - Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): [drm] failed to set drm interface version
I'm trying to use my GPU with the game Counter-Strike 1.6 using Wine on Manjaro (Linux).
The following error occurs:
Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): [drm] failed to set ...
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GPU Randomly Stops Working?
My graphics card seemingly stops outputting a signal and I'm forced to restart the computer (replugging the HDMI cable does nothing). I'll be watching Netflix (can't overheat off Netflix!) or playing ...
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Motherboard doesn't recognize my second GPU
I just bought a GTX 750 Ti to accompany my GTX 1070, hoping to use it to make Blender go faster (and maybe for hackintoshy purposes), but my plans have been thwarted by Windows (or rather, the ...