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| 371372 | 2005-07-11 22:09:00 | after reformatting do i have to load the videocard drivers that came with it and then load the latest ones from the pc word cd or can i just load the drivers from the pc world cd |
holden (2488) | ||
| 371373 | 2005-07-11 22:13:00 | You will also need to load your Motherboard drivers as well as the Video drivers after reinstalling. What type of Video card do you have? You have to make sure you load the drivers that are designed for your brand of Video card eg nVidia or ATi. If you are able, download the latests driver from the Video card manufacturer's website. | Jen (38) | ||
| 371374 | 2005-07-11 22:31:00 | video card is ati and i am only on dailup but thanks |
holden (2488) | ||
| 371375 | 2005-07-11 22:52:00 | As Jen said you have to load your motherboard drivers too. I have found that after a format and re-install of windows the easiest way to do it is to firstly install windows. Then install all the drivers off the disk that came with your computer. This will have your computer running properly. Then, if you want to you can update your drivers at any time. There is normaly no necessity or urgency about updating drivers. I would suggest that if you want to update your video drivers you go to the manufacturers web site and check the number or date of the latest drivers. Then have a look at the drivers on your PC World disk. Quite often drivers supplied with magazines are out of date by the time you get them. If the drivers are the latest ones then go ahead and install them. Otherwise download the ones from the web site. Usualy 20 or 30 megs. With dial up it will take 2 or 3 hours |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 371376 | 2005-07-11 23:01:00 | id go with the drivers that came with the disk, just to get your pc going, then head over to omega drivers (www.omegadrivers.net/) and download the drivers (about 17-20Mb), they are enhanced drivers and you can get better performance from your card, good for gamers. you could also use driver cleaner (http:) to delete every trace of your old set of drivers..... | Prescott (11) | ||
| 371377 | 2005-07-11 23:02:00 | Ya, Omega drivers are the way to go.... For ATI cards anyhow. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 371378 | 2005-07-11 23:08:00 | they have them for nvidia too, are they no good? | Prescott (11) | ||
| 371379 | 2005-07-11 23:11:00 | Do you mean nVidia's NO GOOD lol | chiefnz (545) | ||
| 371380 | 2005-07-11 23:15:00 | Lets just say hes far better hacking ATI drivers then Nvidia, He has even been contracted by Ati and works on new official drivers, then releases his own after release. Anyhow, He took the ATI drivers and improved them in everyway he could,performance,visual quiality and additional tools...and added cross platfor suport, I use them on my laptop for example, None of the official drivers would install and I could not play Doom3. The Nvidia drivers resulted from Nvidia releasing multiple drivers that sacrificed visual quality for speed, they done this due to the piss-poor-bloody pathetic performance of the FX series of cards, Nvidia cards were falling well behind in benchmarks and game performance. The Omega joker took these drivers and put the quality back in them at the sacrafice of speed. |
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