video card - the "holy of holies" for many of today's users, because it depends on the characteristics of its performance in the latest computer game blockbusters.And many programs in recent years largely use its resources for releasing capacity of the central processor.
Not surprisingly, many are wondering about how to upgrade the video driver on your computer.This is due to the fact that the new version of the driver often adds performance throughout the system, eliminating the old bugs in the code.First, we look at how to install a new version of the program, if you have recently appeared as the owner of a new video card.
use the installation disc
course, while ubiquitous CD-discs have long passed, but the video card manufacturers often write down all related programs on them.After all, the Internet is not all and not everywhere.
If such a carrier you have problems once it becomes smaller.To upgrade the video driver with it, you need to insert the disk in the drive and then wait to start the automatic installation.Typically, there will need to be a couple of times to click on "Next" button, so that the driver on your machine has become the newest.
What to do when no dialog boxes do not appear?Open the "My Computer", there are looking for the right drive (usually, it is still one), and then open it by double-clicking the contents of the left mouse button.
the root disk must be a file «Setup.exe» or something like that.You run it again by double-clicking the left button of the manipulator, and then carefully click on the "Next" button.
update your existing version
all very well, but what if you need to update your video driver when the computer already has its predecessor?Do not be afraid.There is also no big deal.
download from the official site
Then you need to figure out what the manufacturer put his hand to the Chinese process of creating your video card.Do not worry: this time you have a 100 percent chance to meet production only two companies - ATI and NVidia.Sites of both easy "naguglivayutsya" in the first line of the search, but because of problems with the download of the installation files you should arise.
To update the video driver, just run it.Previously widely advised to remove the old version before installing a more recent version, but today it is already not necessary to do: as a rule, "Setup Wizard" himself will perform all necessary actions.
If no suitable driver version
Alas, but so too is.There are cases when the hands of the users are not too happy with a computer almost doubling output, video card manufacturer to find which is unrealistic.In these cases, it is hoped only in the service of Windows Update.
How to start it?Of course, you can simply try to perform a standard search for updates, but in our case the situation is more delicate.For the normal passage of the process need to right click on "My Computer", and then select from the list "Properties".
dialog box, on the left side which we are interested in the link "Device Manager."In it you have to draw the item "Video card".If it is about an exclamation mark - the better!This indicates that it is necessary to update the video driver.NVidia has released their older versions, while ATI's not been convicted.If you own one, you can try to find the "wood" on the official website.
are looking for?We are looking for!
So, finding the list the name of your adapter, click the right mouse button.A dialog box in which you should select "Update Driver."Select "Automatic search for updated drivers" in which it will be carried out on the Internet.If you're lucky, the system is able to detect even the old AMD, upgrade the video driver for whom and at best can be quite problematic.
use the tools to diagnose
If you graphics card manufacturer is unknown, but the system can not find a driver for it, offer to take advantage of specially created for the diagnostic utilities.
best of them is considered to be the program AIDA64 Extreme Edition.How to determine with the help of the manufacturer and the model of video card?All this is quite easy to do.After the launch, open the "graphics processor", from which you can learn all the necessary information about their own adapter.
list will mean not only a model of graphic professor and producer, but also detailed characteristics of RAM on the board manufacturing process, and other information.
other similar programs - SiSoftware Sandra.It is known from "prehistoric" times, it contains information on thousands of models of all kinds of computer "iron".After its launch in the list looking for the item "Video card", which also contains detailed information about your hardware.
only drawback of the above-described applications - all of them are paid.But with their help you can actually upgrade the video driver on a laptop, when you do not even know his model.
