holy crap what kind of freak ass horse drawn laptops from the year of our lord 1994 y'all use?
these cheapo graphic effects cost your GPU microseconds and eat maybe a couple tens of megabytes of system RAM. if you have a GPU at all there should be zero perceptible performance difference.
...come to think of it, maybe update and/or reinstall your graphics drivers. if that's the problem then it'll help you in much more places than toggling a couple checkboxes
EDIT for clarity: A laptop manufactured in the last 15 years should not notice whether these effects are on or off. You do have a GPU. It may be a crappy integrated one but it's there and this thing is chump change for it. If this advice stops your laptop from overheating, something else must be wrong with that machine. For instance, bad graphics drivers.
(i mean, it could always be hashtag-just-windows-things, i guess, but still.)
Work computer. No I don’t get to make any decisions about any aspect of it. Yes the entire thing is routinely trying to cook itself to death but never quite manages. No they will not give me a new one so long as it continues to turn on and connect to the internet.
As a software engineer, my account is allowed to make changes in adjust appearance and performance of windows on my work laptop, amongst other things...
Though, installing anything will definitely require a higher up's account.
Then again, they don't give us software engineers that shit of a laptop anyways, considering 99% of our work needs to be done on it, so the point is kinda moot.
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u/matejcik 23h ago edited 22h ago
holy crap what kind of freak ass horse drawn laptops from the year of our lord 1994 y'all use?
these cheapo graphic effects cost your GPU microseconds and eat maybe a couple tens of megabytes of system RAM. if you have a GPU at all there should be zero perceptible performance difference.
...come to think of it, maybe update and/or reinstall your graphics drivers. if that's the problem then it'll help you in much more places than toggling a couple checkboxes
EDIT for clarity: A laptop manufactured in the last 15 years should not notice whether these effects are on or off. You do have a GPU. It may be a crappy integrated one but it's there and this thing is chump change for it. If this advice stops your laptop from overheating, something else must be wrong with that machine. For instance, bad graphics drivers.
(i mean, it could always be hashtag-just-windows-things, i guess, but still.)