upgrading a graphics card....... [View all]

[Takket]

i recently tried to download a play a game on my laptop only to discover my graphics card is nowhere near powerful enough to handle it.

So my question is pretty basic....... the game recommends this:

Recommended: 3 GB, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 480
You Have: Intel(R) UHD Graphics
Video Card Click here for the latest Video Card drivers.
Features: Recommended attributes of your Video Card

Required You Have
Pass or fail icon Pixel Shader 5.1 5.1
Pass or fail icon Vertex Shader 5.1 5.1
Pass or fail icon Dedicated Video RAM 3072 MB 128 MB

Assuming I buy one of these graphics cards, so do I know it will even fit into my laptop and/or that my power supply can handle it?

Second question: According to some reading i've done, i can dedicate additional RAM on my PC to video RAM by editing BIOS settings. Right now I have 8GB of RAM. So if i dedicate 3GP to VRAM, is that essentially "subtracted" from my RAM? So I would have 3GB of VRAM and 5GB of RAM?

Info here: https://windowsreport.com/increase-dedicated-video-ram-windows-10/

For comparison, this is my laptop:

https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/6049488/HP-15-dw2025od-Laptop-156-Screen/
HP Laptop - 15-dw2025od
My notebook
Product number: 9ZG20UA#ABA

General specifications
Operating system
Windows 10 Home 64-bit

Microprocessor
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1035G1 CPU @ 1.00GHz

System memory
8 GB

Memory slot 1
4GB Samsung 2667MHz
Memory slot 2
4GB Samsung 2667MHz

System board
85F3 40.23

System BIOS
F.02

Video
Graphic device 1
Intel(R) UHD Graphics

Current resolution
1366 x 768

Refresh rate
60 Hz

Version
27.20.100.9030 (11/27/2020)

Audio
Device 1
Realtek High Definition Audio

Status
Enabled

Driver
RTKVHD64.sys

Version
6.0.8924.1

Device 2
Intel® Smart Sound Technology (Intel® SST)

Status
Enabled

Driver
IntcBTAu.sys

Version
10.24.0.3694

Device 3
Intel(R) Display Audio

Status
Enabled

Driver
IntcDAud.sys

Version
11.1.0.17