Tess H.

oh ive been there lol get the audio drievrs from your laptop makers support page for ur exact model. install cihpset first, then any Intel SST or audio DSP package, then teh audio driver, rebooting between each. good luck man!

what resolution and refresh rate is ur monitor?

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hmmm if competitive games pays your bills, the stable/studio branch is a sensible default. games still run well on it; you just get new game optimizations a bit later.

oh ive been there lol broadly: gaming branches ship faster with optimizations for new releases. Studio/stable branches ship less often and focus on validation with creative apps. Both run games and apps fine. The difference is cadence and…

yes, teh office PC has integrated graphcis plus a dedicated GPU.