HOW TO: Update your video card!

Video card manufacturers release driver updates every now and then, such as nvidia.com or ati.com, which are the most commonly used video cards on the market. Along with the video card are drivers, updating your drivers can be very useful to improve performance, updates can include tweaks, fixes, optimization, and even added support to video games. Sometimes, updating drivers can be a very bothering task, especially if you don't know what kind of video card you have. I will teach you how!

First: Figure out what your card is!
1. Press start
2. If you are using vista, go to step 3, if you are using an OS older than vista, click run
3. Type in dxdiag

Now the Directx diagnostic tool will appear
There is a lot of information in this screen, what we want is the driver name and the driver date,

4. Click Display 1
5. Write down the Name of the card, (example mine says ATI Radeon HD 4800 SERIES)
6. The Date of the driver is on the right, (mine says 5/15/2009), if it is fairly new to the recent update, you don't have to update, but still it is advisable to do so!
7. Now if it is an nvidia.com or ati.com you are in luck! Click on the corresponding sites and fill in the correct information from your Driver name,( you can find out your OS by double clicking on My Computer)
8. Download those drivers and run the installer!

Now what if my driver name is not ati or nvidia you may ask,

Well, this can be solved, you wrote down your driver name right? Good!
1. Go to google.com.
Pick option A or B for step 2
2a. Type in your driver name and then type + driver, example (ATI Radeon HD 4800 SERIES + updates), this will shorten your search to include driver + your card, this is very useful finding it.
2b. Type in the manufacturers website into site + driver name + (driver downloads): (example site:intel.com + intel GMA 950 + driver downloads), this will shorten your list to your download, hopefully
3. Now the site you need to pick is hopefully your manufacturer, intel.com etc,
4. Click on the site, look for the download link for your OS and install those drivers!

Is this article useful? Are you still have problems? Please comment them! I will be glad to assist you

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