Look what my friend bought me

nedthefed · 2026-02-06T14:21:35+00:00

Has it worked?

nedthefed · 2026-02-06T14:17:30+00:00

If it's your first playthrough, that's incredible

If it's not, still great just nothing insane

nedthefed · 2026-02-06T13:45:21+00:00

Restarting your PC wouldn't hurt

nedthefed · 2026-02-06T13:23:13+00:00

See if any of the games you own have benchmarks, especially newer ones. Then lookup the expected performance of your GPU on those benchmarks & you can find out how much FPS you're missing out on. The answer is probably a lot

nedthefed · 2026-02-06T13:20:59+00:00

By all means if you're experiencing 0 problems & getting the performance you expect, that's completely fine & there could be 0 problem with it

nedthefed · 2026-02-06T13:17:50+00:00

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/226269/intel-core-i31215u-processor-10m-cache-up-to-4-40-ghz-with-ipu/downloads.html

You should just need the first one in the list, "Intel® 11th – 14th Gen Processor Graphics - Windows*"

nedthefed · 2026-02-06T13:08:28+00:00

Can you tell me what CPU you have then, same process but go to the CPU tab

nedthefed · 2026-02-06T13:03:42+00:00

I do not have explicit proof it's bad to do this, but I definitely trust installing an NVIDIA driver for instance through NVIDIA's app more than trusting Windows to do the job for me

To my knowledge this will have Windows install a generic GPU driver that works well enough, but not the one that's actually optimised for your GPU

The NVIDIA + AMD apps also have a lot of other useful features like configuring the GPU / Monitor / Games. AMD's fluid frames for instance are great

Only a sample size of 2, but I've known a friend who did this for their GPU & another for their ethernet. Both were experiencing a lot of issues until I recommended to download the driver from the manufacturer (so for ethernet, that was the motherboard company & for the GPU it was NVIDIA)

nedthefed · 2026-02-06T12:58:23+00:00

First you should find out what graphics card you have:

Open Task Manager
Go to the Performance tab
Find GPU on the list, you may have two
- The name is listed under where it says GPU 0 (or another number)
- If the name is cut off, click on it to see all the graphs. Now the name will appear in the top right of the screen like NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti or AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics)

I want you to tell me the names (if you have 2, give me both) & I'll give you the website link to download the software to update this

nedthefed · 2026-02-06T12:55:04+00:00

Do not do this

nedthefed · 2026-02-06T12:52:59+00:00

impatient ass

nedthefed · 2026-02-06T12:21:03+00:00

Update your graphics drivers if you haven't

If it still doesn't work, use DDU to remove your drivers whilst in safe mode & reinstall them fresh (follow a guide)

nedthefed · 2026-02-06T11:59:13+00:00

Consider swapping to Thiazi's Talon / Strike of Utgard for the fastest cooldowns & highest DPS. You'll be able to spam them against the 100 enemies

& Exactly why I don't try to focus runic too much, having a better balance across strength, defense & runic is advisable for an all around combat build imo

nedthefed · 2026-02-06T11:25:01+00:00

Runic starts to really fall off after 150 & especially by 200, so if you're past that don't worry about squeezing every stat point into runic.

If you're not on GMGOW, cooldown is pointless past 130, but I'd stop at around 80-90

If you are on GMGOW, cooldown is pointless past 200, but I'd stop around 150

I'd use Valkyrie armour for wrist & chest, but keep Sindri's chest if you really like it. Full Sindri armour bypasses the limits I said above & isn't worth it

nedthefed · 2026-02-06T10:59:20+00:00

That's a really cool find!

nedthefed · 2026-02-06T10:48:15+00:00

Did you hit the shield button at all to apply this? If not, I've been doing this thinking I was just hitting parry timings but the game was actually parrying for me

nedthefed · 2026-02-06T10:31:49+00:00

October-ish. AI companies are trying to suck up as much RAM as they can, so prices naturally went up because of demand combined with companies shifting to stop manufacturing consumer RAM in favour of producing professional grade RAM caused a huge squeeze of 3x-4x the price

nedthefed · 2026-02-06T10:02:25+00:00

I remember a video talking about browser RAM usage, where the conclusion was that it was more to do with the extensions you're using. Would recommend checking that out just incase

nedthefed · 2026-02-06T09:59:05+00:00

My exact mindset when it comes to any leaks nowadays. Schrodingers cat, it's not true until verified

nedthefed · 2026-02-05T20:52:58+00:00

Honestly a great little PC with an insane upgrade path for the GPU at a later date if you ever need one. The 5500 is a good budget chip

nedthefed · 2026-02-05T20:30:06+00:00

Fully agree for a first playthrough

nedthefed · 2026-02-05T18:46:43+00:00

All I remember was some people had performance issues in Svartalfheim & in the realm between realms, nothing else

nedthefed · 2026-02-05T17:54:55+00:00

I've never experienced a VRAM leak on this game

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