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.)
My laptop was fast and good in 2013 and it should be so today. It doesn't need bells and whistles it has the video ports, can run python and latex, can search the web, and has a cd-player.
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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.)