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What does it mean for a sound card to have "Hardware Acceleration"?

I wonder what does it mean for a computer sound card to have hardware acceleration? I know that hardware acceleration means to use hardware components (integrated circuits, sound processors, etc.) to ...
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How to enable/download OpenGL on Geforce GTX 750 Ti

For a programming issue I need to install or enable OpenGl on my Geforce GTX 750 Ti video card on a Windows 7 x64 machine. How to know if it's installed or not, and if it's not installed, download it? ...
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Can I make Generic uDisk write faster?

I have a Generic uDisk/Flash disk (known as a fake flash drive). Write on 2,4MB/s, and read on 27MB/s. Tested on 20 sample with 20MB file and access 100 times (Linux Benchmark). I'm wishing I can make ...
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What makes certain interfaces faster than others?

Basically I'm just wondering is why a PCIe 16x transmits data faster than say a Thunderbolt 2 cable, or why USBC is faster than USB 3.0. What aspect of these cables (I don't really know what to call ...
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Minimum Server configuration for 10 nodes(client)

Could you please give idea for server configuration of 10 nodes for small size Hospital. Following information is needed. 1)Processor 2)RAM 3)corresponding mother board 4)Cabinet 5)OS (that suitable ...
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Two USB cams with one USB hub behave differently on two different laptops with same OS windows 10

I have been trying to access two USB cameras through a USB hub (bought from local market). I am able to access both the cameras one after the other without any issue but when I tried to access both ...
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Strongswan enable ESP packets hardware acceleration

My Linux kernel already support CESA hardware acceleration, and openssl can use this feature: # openssl speed -evp des3 -elapsed # cat /proc/interrupts | grep cesa 51: 464810 GIC cesa0 ...
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HEVC/x265 :: VLC Player GPU Hardware Acceleration :: Intel HD Graphics 4400

I'm using a Laptop with configurations Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4310U Haswell CPU / Intel(R) HD Graphics 4400 GPU / Windows 7. I've installed latest drivers (10.18.14.4414) to support HEVC/x265 Hardware ...
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What are 2D Video Acceleration and 3D acceleration?

In VirtualBox, you can set your VM to use 2D Video Acceleration and 3D acceleration... But what is it? The question is not about their use in that software but in general. What are 2D Video ...
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Is it possible to write data to hard disk or any memory at 1Gbps ? if not why and how can we achieve that

If I am getting a data at 1Gbps from any sensor or any hardware. how can I write it to memory with same speed ? I am not bothering about data I want writing speed should match with my receiving speed.
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Upgrade PC for multimedia processing

Suppose there is a pc which do heavy video conversion on daily bases. By video conversion, I mean changing a size and quality of videos. The goal is to upgrade the PC in order to perform this task ...
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Why do YouTube videos become greyish in Chrome if hardware acceleration is disabled?

Update: One of the tests has shown that the problem persists on certain devices even if the hardware acceleration is enabled. The 4 screenshots below were taken on Windows 10, Chrome 47.0.2526.111 m (...
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How to enable virtualization without using bios?

I am using android studio.I want to run my app on simulator but it is asking me to install intel haxm,.When i install intel haxm it says that vitualization is not enabled/.To enable virtualization i ...
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Mouse movements 90• rotated (Definitely caused by hardware)

My external wifi mouse works fine but when I move it to right the cursor moves to up side and other ways have same issue. I tried it with on windows,Linux OS on my laptop and on windows on my friend's ...
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Is dynamic shader translation possible?

I know there's dynamic binary translation/JITs, but what about dynamic shader translators? I'm writing an emulator for a system that uses a very particular, custom graphics processor, but I'd like to ...
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Running virtualbox WITHIN virtualbox: VT-x/AMD-v hardware acceleration not available?

My host is Windows 10, I have virtualbox installed and am running Ubuntu 14.04 as a vm and then trying to use vagrant (which requires virtualbox) inside the vm. So effectively I am running virtualbox ...
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Enabling graphics acceleration for OpenGL over remotely via VPN from Ubuntu client(my laptop)to Windows server(computation is here)

I have an access to Internet via a Wifi. Then, I have a VPN connection established from my Ubuntu laptop to a LAN network. In that network there is my Windows Machine where computation happens using ...
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Should this system be capable of running HD videos, if yes whats wrong with it?

I have a Thinkpad R500 running Ubuntu 14.04 with a Radeon HD3470 and it seems like it isn't able to play HD videos without stuttering. I tried watching this demo video (setting Youtube to 1080p) in ...
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nvidia and mplayer: "[VD_FFMPEG] DRI failure."

I've been getting this error message every time I run mplayer, no matter what video rendering method I choose. I've tried vdpau, xv, and gl. I thought maybe mplayer is reverting to software rendering. ...
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Poor quality image on external monitor in Windows

I have a late 2013 retina macbook pro, running windows 10, connected to an external monitor via the internal NVidia GeFore GT 750M card. Text and image quality on the external display is very poor - ...
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Beaglebone Black OpenSSl crypto acceleration

I'm running Debian Wheezy at my Beaglebone Black. Is OpenSSL using the hardware crypto accelerator by default? If no, how can I enable it?
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Can someone explain what "video acceleration" is?

Basically, a user came to me complaining that when she opened a certain video file in VLC, she received an error saying: "Your video output acceleration driver does not support the required ...
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How to enable virtualization on samsung 300E4A/300E5A/300E7A/3430EA/3530EA

Im running android studio. However when I try to debug I get the following: emulator: ERROR: x86 emulation currently requires hardware acceleration! Please ensure Intel HAXM is properly installed and ...
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Does "use hardware acceleration when available" feature in google chrome consume more battery?

I want to know when i enable "use hardware acceleration when available" feature in google chrome, it consume more battery? what is the advantage of this feature? is it better to enable or disable this ...
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Stange behaviour with "use hardware acceleration when available" option in Chrome browser

I recently change a setting in my chrome browser (latest version 39.0.x.x) and I noticed a strange side effect: The setting I changed was the "Use hardware acceleration when available" and it was ...
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How can I enable "acceleration using solid-state hybrid drive"

My Laptop is a Lenovo Y5070-B that has an SSHD hard drive. SATA Controller Mode was in AHCI mode and it doesn't have RAID mode. There are only two options: AHCI and Compatible. When I set this option ...
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Is my FPS limited by CPU or graphics card? Rotating 3D surfaces in Matlab

I have a modern laptop. When I use Matlab to visualize a 3D surface with a large number of vertices, I can only get a frame rate around 5 FPS when rotating it. With transparent surfaces, only 1 FPS. ...
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Windows 8 hardware acceleration requiremetns

I'd like to upgrade my graphics card -- It's old and only has 500mb of memory. It does not support hardware acceleration for Windows (8), and I would like to make sure the replacement does. So I'd ...
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Rendering a frame is producing noise from speakers in Windows and Linux

When any hardware accelerated application is rendering a frame (or many of them) a very short noise is coming from my speakers. This can be a game, a WebGL application or XBMC. When the application/...
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Confirm correctly working of hardware acceleration in Chrome (Windows 7)?

I'm having troubles getting hardware acceleration support for Youtube. Both Windows and flash player are enabled for hardware acceleration. The drivers for the graphics card are installed. The ...
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OpenGL/webGL not working, nouveau drivers

Title says it, OpenGL software crashes and Chromium says hardware acceleration is not available for webGL, though they should be supported by nouveau drivers. Running 64-bit Arch linux with xfce4 ...
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Intel HD4000 - Code 12 - This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use

System: CPU Core i7 3770K Motherboard Asus P8Z77-V with latest BIOS RAM 32GB DDR3-1333 RAID Adaptec 6405E in a PCI-E 3.0 x4 slot HDDs 2 x Seagate 4TB 7200RPM GPUs Intel HD4000 (on-CPU) and Radeon ...
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How can I make Firefox Menu and Toolbar stop flashing?

After a recent Firefox update, all of my menus and bookmarks toolbar have begun to flash when they're accessed. The content shows for a moment, but then I only see the outline and whatever was ...
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Getting a matrix of capacitance data from a touchpad

I would like to access the raw data from my touchpad before the data is processed into a single X,Y coordinate. Instead, I would like a grid of values as portrayed here: (image from howstuffworks.com/...
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Accelerated OpenGL is not working

I was trying to play Minecraft, but when I logged in it came up with this error: Bad video card drivers! ----------------------- Minecraft was unable to start because it failed ...
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VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available

I have a dell inspiron 1525 note book with Win7. I am trying to install Win8 on Virtualbox. But I am getting the error: VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available on your system. Certain ...
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Why Firefox goes zaggy when I have hardware accelaration enabled?

I am using Firefox Nightly for now. I have seen same thing if I used Latest Firefox version. from Firefox 15 if I have enabled the Hardware acceleration in option > browser > use hardware ...
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Multi-texturing error in a game

While trying to play a game, it gives error: This program requires multi-texturing, which is not supported by your hardware. I have Dell D630 Laptop (with Windows 7 32-bit), I can remember this ...
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Can't disable hardware acceleration in Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.251 on Ubuntu

With the new release of Flash Player for Ubuntu I'm not even able to disable hardware acceleration to avoid that frustrating channel management that overlays a sort of blue pattern on each video. I'...
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Enable accelerated OpenGL on Windows 8 with NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M

I have a HP EliteBook 8540w with a NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M graphics card. After installing Windows 8 (64-bit), the following graphics driver has been installed: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M (Microsoft ...
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Program freezes when playing video with hardware acceleration

When I watch video online (flash) or locally (any type), the video screen turns green and then freezes after a few seconds. It'll be fine if I disable hardware acceleration. This only happens ...
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In Firefox, sometimes the hand cursor icon does not appear?

When mousing over links in Firefox, the arrow cursor icon changes to a hand icon, at least on my Mac. Since FF12 or FF11 or so, mousing over links sometimes does not change the cursor correctly. To ...
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Silverlight hardware-accelerated playback is greyed-out - How do I enable it?

I am trying to play Netflix videos (which only play via Silverlight), but they play choppy because Silverlight's hardware-accelerated playback is disabled. (video playback on WMP11 and VLC is ...
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Why Does Text Get Squished Up In Word 2010 With A Translucent Watermark?

You may experience an anomaly in Word 2010 that looks like this: The expected result is supposed to be normally-displayed text. In the picture below, the text that is circled contains approximately ...
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Hardware Acceleration on Windows Server 2008

Does Windows Server 2008 have hardware acceleration? I tried to use WPF to make over 20,000 drawings. It only cause around 40% CPU in windows 7. However, I run the same program on Windows Server ...
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Which version of Flash Player for Mac, is packed without hardware acceleration?

I am currently experiencing issues with flash player plugin in all my web browsers (safari, chrome, firefox) and, NO, disabling it with the enable acceleration option, doesn't work, it's kind of ...
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Enabling hardware acceleration on a VM inside a VM

If I enable Hardware Acceleration in a VMware virtual machine that has another virtual machine (but without hardware acceleration enabled) as a host, will it have any effect?
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How do I know when to use hardware acceleration?

I'm not sure I know what hardware acceleration ("...use of computer hardware to perform some function faster") is, but when I play flash games, or 3D FPS games, I'm asked if I want to use hardware ...
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Flash Player (e.g. plugin) crashes when play a video?

Not sure where to put this, but Chrome, Firefox and IE crashes (the flash player) when I try to watch a video like on youtube. The screen goes green then a few seconds later it freezes. Same goes ...
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Client-Server; Master-Slave; Host-?

What would be the complementing metaphor for a system comprised of a host computer running an application and an accelerator system doing some specific type of calculations? What is a good name for ...
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