Let’s say you
own a full-on PC gaming café, offering a wide variety of latest and
classic video games, be it LAN or offline. However, in a tournament
that your shop has sponsored, a player complains about how his PC’s
video card went caput in the midst of a highly-competitive gaming
affair.
The next thing you
know, he tells his friends about how crappy your PCs are, and you
start losing customers. If you can’t entirely repair your defective
PCs since all you know about is in the software realm, you can still
depend on simple troubleshooting techniques and see what went wrong.
You could then apply a temporary remedy until professional help is
available.
First, check if
the graphics card is unusually loud. A noisy card means that it is
about to retire. Often, the noise is caused by dust. Dirt affects
card temperature, and the hotter it gets when it is heavily-used, the
shorter the card’s life span will be.
Moreover, remember
that the latest video games today require much more powerful graphics
cards. Running such games on outdated graphics cards could be risky.
Older, incompatible ones will obviously struggle, indicated by too
much lag or color fluctuations on the monitor.
After applying
basic remedies and still your PCs won’t display good quality video,
it is time to call in a professional who knows the ins and outs of a
computer’s graphics processing unit (GPU).
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