I have a lengthy number-crunching process which takes advantage of quite abit of OpenGL off-screen rendering. It all works well but when I leave it to work on its own while I go make a sandwich I would usually find that it crashed while I was away. I was able to determine that the crash occurs very close to the moment The laptop I'm usin...
Until Windows Vista, ATI and nVidia supported a feature called horizontal span, which combined two monitors into a single larger screen. This feature allows the taskbar to span across both monitors, allows games to be played in fullscreen across both monitors, and allow Remote Desktop Connection to span both monitors without the /span f...
My application seems to be slow, but in terms of CPU and RAM, it seems that it is OK. So, I want to know how much memory of the graphic card I am using. I've seen some questions about this on SO, but they talk about Linux or NVidia. I would like to have this information for ATI cards on Windows. Thanks. ...
I am interested in a way how to read GPU temperature (graphics processing unit, main chip of graphic card), by using some video card driver API? Everyone knows that there two different chip manufacturers (popular ones, at least) - ATI and nVIDIA - so there are two different kinds of drivers to read temperature from. I'm interested in le...
Is it possible to store objects in the video-card memory instead of the ram? I have been using StringIO to store some objects in the RAM; would it be possible to allocate some of the video-card's memory for this purpose? ...