Video card help

miked16

I have done a full system restore on my pc and I have been trying to put some of the old programs I had back on. When I installed flight simulator X, I get a warning saying something about the video card and that it cannot play it. I looked online and people seem to say that its about the graphics card that it needs updating When I go to display adapters by right clicking on the desktop -> settings -> advanced -> adapter, it doesn’t come up within the display, and I cannot remember what the graphics card is that is installed on there.
Does anybody have any advise for next steps please?

santer_2

This should tell you

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

miked16

wow ! thanks for the quick reply, I ran the program and it said in the display box "none discovered" but the screen is working fine and I'm running other applications on here so it can't be faulty.
Am I missing something or is there something further I can do ?

santer_2

Windows update may find it under optional updates, though their hardware bits can be a bit hit and miss, so if windows update tells you what it is, either post the details or look for it on the manufacturer's website

If you click start, right click computer, click device manager, click the + next to display adapter, does it have anything there?

miked16

There doesn't appear to be anything coming up, the list is;
Computer
Disk drives
DVD/CD-ROM drives
Human interface devices
I'm using Microsoft XP if that makes a difference

miked16

It doesn't appear to be coming up, the list is;
computer
disk drives
DVD/CD-ROM drives
human interfaces devices
I'm using windows XP

santer_2

Try windows update, or get speccy, you can uninstall both this and belarc once you find the drivers

http://filehippo.com/download_speccy/

Is the PC made by dell or similar, if yes, can you post the make and model

Do you know if it has onboard graphics only, if so, the motherboard make and model will be useful

miked16

Thanks for the advice, I have managed to find it now, I had a look under add hardware and there were 2, one was 'ATI technologies Inc, 3D RAGE PRO AGP' and the other 'Intel R 82810 Graphics controller (Microsoft corporation' but they both have a yellow exclamation mark in the icon next to them.
If I click install it opens the wizard and at the end it says "the wizard could not find a better match for your hardware than the software you currently have installed"
The computer is mainly asus but I am not sure what the model number is

santer_2

This seems to be the most recent

5.10.2600.6010 April 02, 2002

If that isn't it, use their search option

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/legacy-xp.aspx

From here it asks for home or professional XP

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng