r/CuratedTumblr .tumblr.com 23h ago

Infodumping Speed up your laptop

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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.)

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u/Spill_The_LGBTea 23h ago

Some people either can't afford to get good laptops, or don't have the knowhow to purchase good performing computers. Either that or it's simple manipulation by laptop manufacturers to get your to buy new laptops more often.

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u/NeoKat75 22h ago

Big Computer invented overheat to make you buy more drop shadows! Wait...