Updating Graphics Drivers - how-to
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So heres something for the many people who are having problems concerning their graphics and need an update.
First find out which company made your graphics card, look on the box or ask someone to find out, then go to the official site and download the newest graphics drivers available. At this point your going to want to set up a restore point incase something goes wrong, click the start button and go to "Help and support" then click "Undo changes to your computer with System Restore" and create the restore point. Now uninstall the current graphics drivers you are using in Control panel/Add or remove programs, restart your computer. You will notice that you are running at a low resolution and graphics load slow after that, this is normal. Now disable your firewall and install the new graphics drivers, then restart again. Now your graphics will run superb but you have to check one thing, go to your System properties/Hardware/Device manager, you should see a Display adapters device, if there is more then one display adapter in it you should disable the one you don't want. Now games and everything should run good.
I'm pretty sure I didn't miss anything. I'm using Windows XP, If theres a different process for other O/S then please post it here.
First find out which company made your graphics card, look on the box or ask someone to find out, then go to the official site and download the newest graphics drivers available. At this point your going to want to set up a restore point incase something goes wrong, click the start button and go to "Help and support" then click "Undo changes to your computer with System Restore" and create the restore point. Now uninstall the current graphics drivers you are using in Control panel/Add or remove programs, restart your computer. You will notice that you are running at a low resolution and graphics load slow after that, this is normal. Now disable your firewall and install the new graphics drivers, then restart again. Now your graphics will run superb but you have to check one thing, go to your System properties/Hardware/Device manager, you should see a Display adapters device, if there is more then one display adapter in it you should disable the one you don't want. Now games and everything should run good.
I'm pretty sure I didn't miss anything. I'm using Windows XP, If theres a different process for other O/S then please post it here.
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My graphic card is not in the list, i have a ATI RADEON EXPRESS 200
EDITED: NVM , i found it on another list.
EDITED: NVM , i found it on another list.
Last edited by DarkHugo08 on Tue May 08, 2007 9:02 pm, edited 1 time in total.
um, i've found that the best way to find out what card you have is to go to start->programs->accessories->system tools->system information. then you choose graphics or something... or you can download everest (good practice for using google) which will tell you everything about your computer you could ever need to know.
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I use GeForce, here is the list of products supported for my driver.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/93.71_winxp_32_supported.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/93.71_winxp_32_supported.html
whatakevin wrote:actually mmsven, most graphical drivers automaticly do the work, just download an click, itll uninstall old ones, set restore point, blah blah blah, install new driver
Actually whatakevin, they don't EVERY time.
Most drivers don't automaticly uninstall the other ones, but override them, which can cause problems due to excess files.
And if the maximum ammount of space is used for restore points, it wont set one.
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I redownloaded the Driver and retried it for the fourth time now and it worked
Thank you for your support anyway :p
Thank you for your support anyway :p
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