Timeline for Are questions about a graphics card's drivers off-topic?
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| Dec 19, 2012 at 16:05 | comment | added | Trent Hawkins | There will certainly be overlap in expertise between Arqade and Super User as far as graphics cards go. However, I think once you run into issues for the installer of the graphics card's drivers, you've left the purview of Arqade. | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 16:02 | comment | added | user27134 | Pity was totally the wrong word to use! | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 16:02 | comment | added | galacticninja | @pixel Thanks for the upvotes. Also, there's no need to pity. In the end, it's just another internet post. =) | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 15:42 | comment | added | user27134 | While we disagree, I am going to point out that upvoted both the original question and the meta question, the original out of pity (I don't agree with closing and downvoting, the reason to downvote is not the same as the reason to close in most cases) and the meta because it's a decent enough query to be asking for clarification on. | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 15:38 | comment | added | galacticninja | @pixel True, I'm justifying from my point of view, but I'm also speaking from a gamer's point of view (this site's audience). Also, we're going in circles. My rebuttal to that is already mentioned in my comments and in my question. | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 15:29 | comment | added | user27134 | I'm bored now, have fun! | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 15:28 | comment | added | user27134 | Now you're trying to justify the point of the question using your own point of view, rather than the factual point of the hardware. Unfortunately, your own point of view doesn't make it correct, graphics cards are not only used for games, their primary purpose is not gaming, graphics cards do exist that can't play games, graphics cards do exist that excel at 2D rendering, thus "graphics cards are for gaming" cannot be true. | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 15:26 | comment | added | galacticninja | @pixel "graphics cards are used for rendering Aero in Windows" This is so a decade ago. The Nvidia FX series (released 2003) supports Windows Aero. Virtually every video card currently in the market supports Aero. Anyway, none of those examples are relevant in a gaming context. Except OpenCL/Cuda, but that just shows that graphics card are used mainly for gaming (in this context). As a PC gamer, I don't use my graphics card mainly to look at the cool Windows Aero features or for the wonderful webpage rendering of my browser (actually, I prefer hardware acceleration in my browser disabled). | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 15:08 | comment | added | user27134 | Disagree with me all you want - it's factual that graphics cards are used for displaying the output from a PC on a visual device, graphics cards are used for rendering Aero in Windows (and yes, a low performance graphics card will prevent this from happening), they're used for drawing web pages in modern web browsers, they're used for GPU computing with OpenCL/Cuda, you can even use your graphics card to assist with SETI@HOME. | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 15:05 | comment | added | galacticninja | @pixel "Graphics cards' primary purpose is not gaming" I disagree with this, especially in this context. I already mentioned the reasons in my comments and my question. Graphics cards and game controllers are used mainly for gaming, if in a gaming context similar to this one. "…it is displaying the output from your computer on a visual device" That's like saying you use a game controller so you can "input tactile commands to your computer". | |
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| Dec 19, 2012 at 14:52 | comment | added | user27134 | no - a game controller is only ever going to be used to play games, while you can use it for other things, its primary purpose is gaming, which is the difference between game controllers and graphics cards. Graphics cards' primary purpose is not gaming, it is displaying the output from your computer on a visual device | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 14:48 | comment | added | galacticninja | @pixel A better analogy than the 'installing an OS' analogy (which is not really close to this case), IMHO, is installing a game controller's drivers on a PC. Like the graphics card in this context, the game controller is also used mainly for playing games (although you can say that it can also be used as a generic, non-gaming input device rather than a mouse or a keyboard). | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 14:39 | answer | added | Frank | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 14:29 | comment | added | user27134 | yes but, because it's about the installer, it's not gaming specific and never will be - that's like saying "I can't install my operating system" - that question also wouldn't on topic, but the operating system is required to play games... | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 14:27 | comment | added | galacticninja | @pixel "the question was about the installer for the graphics card's driver" - which is required for the driver to be installed properly (and hence, part of its configuration and setup), and for the video card to work properly. | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 13:22 | comment | added | user27134 | The question wasn't about the graphics card's driver - the question was about the installer for the graphics card's driver. | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 7:52 | answer | added | Rilgon Arcsinh | timeline score: 1 | |
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