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  1. Infiltrater900

    Infiltrater900 Well-Known Member

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    Find the specs of my graphics card? I had a radeon but it got messed up so with some help from my uncle I managed to get the radeon out and use the card that came with my computer. But, whenever I try to play a few games it will say the graphics drivers on my computer are not recent enough to play the game ( or something along those lines ) so is there any way to find out what card is in there right now so I can try to get some newer drivers?
     
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    srtest.com

    go there, test on some random game, check the card u have

    easy way imo
     
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    or Right Click on your desktop then click Properties > Settings > Advanced
     
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    Right click on your desktop and go to properties and then go to the settings tab on the right. then where it says color quality click advanced. then go to the ad adapter tab. it should say how much memoery it has and other stuff. some other tabs there have info
     
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    Thanks, Ill try right now

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    Wow this card sucks.. 64 MB :(

    My other was 256, but that doesnt work :(
     
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    what does not work? what do you need to find out?
     
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    THe graphics card would put green lines down my screen, and on bigger games like roller coaster tycoon 3, it would pixelate everything extremley and it would flash around and get all messed up. Its hard to explain, I used to have a screen shot but I lost it. I tried reinstalling the driver but that didnt work, and obivously I'm not too literate in graphics cards so I didnt know what else to try.
     
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    There are 2 things I could think of

    1.It could be your screen refresh rate. What is your screen size?
    Each screen size has a different refresh rate

    here is a program that fixes refresh rate

    http://files4.majorgeeks.com/files/7f4534d...deo/reforce.zip


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    2.There is probably something wrong with the actual GFX card. Like motherboard fried. Like the actual thing and you would need a new one.

    Try and see if that program works
     
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    Sounds a bit like the car overheating, does it have a fan attached?
     
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    The gfx card itself? No. There was 2 fans I could see from the side view when I took it out though. there might be one more but I'm not sure.
     
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    when you reinstalled your driver did you also update it , also check the card to see if anythng dosent look right something broken cracked or dosent look right
     

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