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Originally Posted by Rida

Thanks, David.
I've attached my Advanced display settings.


I notice you, like me, are using the Intel Graphics thing. Do you not use the Nvidia one? And if you don't, are you still recommending that I do (well, Radeon in my case)?

The Nvidia driver is more capable than the Intel driver however it is also uses a lot more power. I only use the Nvidia chipset when I need the performance.

Originally Posted by Rida

Is updating the drivers a separate thing? I think you're just recommending I update my drivers in case that's the problem?

Lenovo supplies the video drivers as a package. This allows testing them together and making sure the driver switching works. I suspect Dell does the same so looking into a video driver update is definitely work doing.

Originally Posted by Rida

I'll try to choose the Radeon one now anyway but in case you're about now, hopefully you could reply to this first and then we can move forward in stages. [I'll check for replies much more frequently than I just did.]

Much appreciated; calibre does seem pretty slow to load books and also to close the window after I've edited metadata.

EDIT: Before I do anything else, I went into the Intel 3D settings (beacuse you did in your Nvidia settings - I had no idea what 3D settings were for or that they would have anything to do with calibre). I saw that General Settings was set to Balanced, so I changed it to Quality. I wonder if this might help in itself. (I don't have battery in my laptop because it broke so I don't care about power saving really.). I've attached that screenshot too.

At one point in time, if i forced the Nvidia chipset in the 3D settings, it also set the Nvidia chipset as the default for my standard 2D Windows desktop. I reported this as a bug and the bug was reported as having been fixed but I've never tested that. One of my co-workers had the same issue on his HP laptop which she aggravated by updating the two video drivers separately.