How to find out what video card you have in your computer.

There are quite a few ways of finding your video card type .

We have put together some general ways of finding this and which drivers you need to get it working properly.

If your graphics card is installed and working ok, but you simply need to find the model and/or specification.

There are 3 easy ways to get this information (if your graphics card is not being recognized please skip to the next section)

From the Start Run menu type – Winmsd – Then Select Components – Display – you will then be able to see basic information in regard to the card.

Another method of how to find out out what video card you have is to type DxDiag from the Start Run menu – and then Select the Display tab – this gives you the same information, but in a more user friendly way.

The next way of how to find out what video card you have involves downloading a free application called Belarc you can easily find this from your favorite search engine, it gives you a nice descript amount information about your graphics card and just about everything about your computer.

This can be found this from your favourite search engine, it gives you a nice descript amount information about your graphics card and just about everything about your computer.

If you simply need to identify your graphics card to be able to get the correct driver in the first place

If you don’t have the correct driver for your video card then Windows will use a default or basic VGA type of driver, which is designed to simply give you an image until you get the specific driver.

With this you will get a low resolution and poor all round video performance.

Before any drivers can be installed we need to know which graphics card your computer has – the easiest option is to visit the computer manufactures website and look for the support/drivers section, most manufacturers now offer complete driver databases with easy find methods, most of these involve entering your computer model and then it gives you the specific driver that’s required with the download location, you just need to select your operating system.

The next way of finding your graphic card type is look on the card itself, if you have a desktop it’s just a question powering off the computer – removing the power cord – opening the case and seeing what make and model are written on the card itself.

Our final method on how to find out what video card you have is to use an application such as GPU-Z this interrogates the graphics card and provides lots of details.

Once downloaded run the application, (you can close or allow it to search for updates) immediately it will interrogate your graphics card and give you as much information as possible.

This is a very useful application as it also gives you extra information in terms of what your graphics card actually supports, as many games specify technical stuff such as a graphics card needed with pixel shaders or minimum 256mb

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