How to set main graphics card

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However after installation, my windows performance index drops to 4.7 (it was 5.9 out of the box),

Are you sure this is not caused by a difference in the video drivers? Perhaps the original install had up-to-date drivers, whereas the re-install has reverted to older/slower drivers.

I could be wrong, but I would not have expected that the primary adapter to change due to an operating system install.

It is years, since I have dealt with this issue, but there used to be a setting in the BIOS that allowed you to set the primary video adapter (and usually an option to disable the on-board video adapter if any). (For machines without on-board video cards and without the bios option, the primary adapter was determined by which slot the card was plugged into).

Once you get into windows, I'm not sure how important it is to be the Primary Video Adapter (other than perhaps for performance tests), since if anything appears on a monitor that is connected to the new video card, then windows is obviously using it.

Black Ops

Updated on September 18, 2022

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Black Ops over 1 year

I need to be able to get the currency exchange rate from EUR => CHF for each day of a month. Therefor i got an XML Link from the gov.

The Link with the XML is this one.

Here's a snippet of the XML:

<devise code="eur">
  <land_de>Europäische Währungsunion</land_de>
  <land_fr>Union monétaire européenne</land_fr>
  <land_it>Unione Monetaria Europea</land_it>
  <land_en>Euro Member</land_en>
  <waehrung>1 EUR</waehrung>
  <kurs>1.05222</kurs>
</devise>
<devise code="gbp">
  <land_de>Grossbritannien</land_de>
  <land_fr>Grande-Bretagne</land_fr>
  <land_it>Gran Bretagna</land_it>
  <land_en>United Kingdom</land_en>
  <waehrung>1 GBP</waehrung>
  <kurs>1.48298</kurs>
</devise>

I need to get the value "1.05222" from the EUR node (which is the currency exchangerate).

I tried the following code, but it doesn't work, the result is always empty.

XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(url);

string kurs="";

XmlNodeList xnList = xmlDoc.SelectNodes("/wechselkurse/devise[@code='eur']");
foreach (XmlNode xn in xnList)
{
   kurs = xn["kurs"].InnerText;
}

Sam Axe almost 9 years

@CharlesMager: guess my memory was rusty.

tamil almost 13 years

Oh yes I tried that out of desperation this morning, but it will just make my monitor practically useless I had to boot into safe mode and re-enable it back....
tamil almost 13 years

Nope, I went to ASUS support website and re-downloaded the driver from the website, so if any, the driver that comes with the laptop should possibly be the least updated one. Yeah which is why I said it's not actually a biggie, but just in case any of you knows of a quick solution ;)
Joe Taylor almost 13 years

That sounds odd. Are you using your nVidia card for graphics at the moment? Does it show from boot?
tamil almost 13 years

I think the main graphics card used by windows is still the onboard one, so when I disable the intel one, it just shuts down the monitor.
Joe Taylor almost 13 years

What is the monitor plugged into though?
tamil almost 13 years

Sorry forgot to mention that this is a laptop, I'll edit my question
tamil almost 13 years

Good idea, will have a look onto the bios. Although I'm more inclined to think that it's the OS :( Thanks anyway ! :D
tamil almost 13 years

unfortunately there's no option to set preferred VGA :(, thanks for the idea tho