Windows: hardware acceleration of the graphics card check
First check whether your video card is working properly. If she does, is activated to its hardware acceleration.
- Click on the "control panel" click "Hardware and Sound".
- There, select "devices and printers" in the "device Manager".
- Select in the Overview of your graphics card and click with the right mouse button on the model.
- Select "Properties". Problems should be displayed, this is displayed under "device status". You can install the update in such a case, under the tab "driver" > "driver", the driver of the graphics card.
Enable hardware acceleration
Windows: the configuration Tool of your graphics card manufacturer's open
The various graphics card manufacturers also offer various configuration tools:
- To start this Tool, click with the right mouse button on the Desktop and choose" Catalyst Control Center" for AMD Radeon graphics cards.
- Here you can enable under "Video" the "Accelerated video conversion".
- Depending on which configuration Tools you can use, you can make other device settings to performance and quality.
Read in the next practice tip, as in the device Manager hidden devices view.
