Usually, when you think of driving a VGA–in software or hardware–you think of using a frame buffer. The frame buffer is usually dual port RAM. One hardware or software process fills in the RAM and ...

Here are some of the most widely used terms associated with high-end graphic capabilities: Aliasing - The jagged lines that result from drawing on a raster screen. Here are some of the most widely ...

These days, working with a display in software is fairly easy. Thanks to the convenience of the modern OS, we’re blessed with graphical user interfaces, where things such as buttons and windows and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Kiwi International Design Systems (KIDS) won’t have to race to bring up-to-the-minute graphics ...

The Verto GeForce 9600 GT graphics card features a 512-Mbyte GDDR3 frame-buffer memory and a 650-MHz core clock. Supporting Microsoft’s DirectX 10 shader model 4.0, the card also provides a 57.6-Gbps ...

A device that digitizes the current video frame into a single, bitmapped still image. Frame grabbers can be stand-alone devices that plug into a port on the computer or a function built into the ...

Qt comes with a handy tool that lives a rather anonymous life in the tools/qvfb directory. This tool does wonders when it comes to demoing, training users and creating documentation. The QVFb, or Qt ...

Just before the release of you-know-what later on this week, Sapphire's been busy with the current Radeon HD 4800-series line. Built around Radeon HD 4850 and HD 4870, Sapphire launched a triumvirate ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Nvidia has started to roll out support for Resizable BAR, a feature of ...

If you’ve purchased a laptop or tablet with an AMD Ryzen chip inside, there’s a performance tweak you absolutely need to know about. Apply it to AMD’s AI/gaming powerhouse Ryzen AI Max chip, and you ...