

Overclocking Issues – Some graphics cards come with locked voltage and due to this you cannot increase their voltage for higher overclocking and stability. Must Read: How to Reduce Graphics Card Temperature In these circumstances, you may try and update the GPU BIOS to fix these issues regarding the overheating of your GPU. This is because the fan speed settings and temperature throttling settings might not be working properly on your current BIOS.

Heating Issues – Sometimes a faulty or buggy GPU BIOS can cause unexpected heating of your graphics card even when the card is on stock frequencies. Stability Issues – If you are facing stability issues like artifacts on screen or monitor, frequent freezing, BSOD, crashing, or restarts due to graphics card then you can try and flash the VGA BIOS of your graphics card to solve these issues. Here are the various reasons that may prompt you to update the VGA BIOS of your graphics card.


Navigate to your Algodoo folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Algodoo) and select Algodoo.exe and press ‘open'(this step will probably depend on your operating system but should be pretty easy to find).Select the “Program Settings” tab in the main window.Select ‘Manage 3D Settings’ in the left pane.Right-click on desktop and click NVIDIA Control Panel.Thankfully, the solution to this is straight-forward: If it starts with INTEL, go to In rare cases, some laptops will try to use the wrong graphics chipset for Algodoo (we’ve only heard of this problem on the “NVidia Optimus” chipset).Look at the name of the graphics card under the “Display adapters” (in the example image below it is “NIVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+”). If this fails, there is one other way to go about it, and that is downloading the drivers directly from the hardware vendor. Click “Search automatically for updated driver software”.Under “Display adapters”, right-click your graphics card and select “Properties”.Enter “devmgmt.msc” (without quotations) and press enter.Press win+r (the “win” button is the one between left ctrl and alt).If you don’t know what this means, continue and hope for the best. First make sure you are logged in as administrator, i.e.
