embm wrote:what is a graphic driver how do i get 1 & what to the other stuff as well
slow things down & plz explain cuz i dont know much about computers
t.y.s.m
okay you said that your computer is new, each pc consists of a motherboard off course, on this motherboard there many thing mounted on it , as a sound card , RAM , and graphics card etc... so here we're talking about graphics card, it's responsible for anything related to games , video , images, graphics which appear or which are processing by the pc, now in order for the graphics card to work well , it must use an instruction given to him by the pc,, which tell's him what to do and when to do it and how to operated properly etc.. now these instruction are called drivers,, so each graphics card wont work properly if it's driver it's not installed, ,,
now how to install them : if you have a built-in graphics card, which i mean by this that the grahics card is already with the motherboard it's not separated, so it's just use the motherboard drivers and install them they will install the graphic card drivers by themselves, so you can find motherboard drivers in a CD given to you with the pc you bought ,, in the other hand but if you dont have a built-in graphics card then you have to figure out what is the brand of your graphics card , for example if ti's nvidia here
http://www.nvidia.com/ or ATI here
HTTP://ati.amd.com/products/index.htmlI etc.. and know which model you have ,, then go to the company website and download the driver from there, ,,,
now to know which graphics card you have ,, follow me here,, :
go to
start then to
accessories then
system tools then
system information ,, now go down to
components then to
display , you will find a detalied info related to your graphics card type ,, just give it to me i will give you the link to the driver to download don't worry about that ,,
for the Direct X just download it from here
:
http://www.techmixer.com/download-directx-10-for-windows-xp/if you want to learn more about Direct X ,, just go here there is a lot of useful information about it
http://www.d-silence.com/feature.php?id=254sorry cuz my English is bad here, it's just cuz i write it fast
if you didn't understand ,, just ask