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VS 2005 and your graphics card

If you are using VS 2005 consider upgrading your graphics card.

We noticed right a way that the IDE was slow and sluggish using the integrated, on board graphics card that came with our machines.  We updated to a 128MB graphics card and it made a world of difference in speed within the IDE.  The IDE in 2005 is graphics heavy and the new card really helps.

Posted: May 17 2007, 11:51 AM by gregarobinson | with 3 comment(s)
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Ryan Ternier said:

I could only see this if you`re running Vista, or you`re running XP with lower than 512 ram.

most development machines have 1GB to 3GB of ram (that I work on). If you`re running vista, then yea you will need a Graphics card so you can take the strain of Vista off your processor and your ram.

# May 17, 2007 1:07 PM

Chad Smith said:

Are you sure it was the graphics card and not the drivers - Windows itself is terribly sluggish, most noticably whilst dragging windows around, if you don't install specific card drivers and leave it with the generic driver.

# May 17, 2007 11:38 PM

Mike said:

With a large project VB 2005 is just appallingly slow - comment out a line and 30 secs later you can do something else!!!!

# May 25, 2007 5:26 AM
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