xmas game, won't play, update drivers??

bamberbamboo

Afternoon, my daughter has had a pony game for her pc and it wouldn't work as she needs to go onto internet and update drivers and she has no internet upstairs, so we've tried it on my pc and it says the same update drivers and a link to

http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html

so I've gone to that page and now I'm stuck I don't even know what I'm supposed to be doing is there a simple way to do this? or even find out what I'm supposed to be updating?

many thanks

gaming_guy

do you know what graphics card you have?

bamberbamboo

Hi gaming_guy where would I find that information?

duncansby

Go to control panel > display > settings and it might list it there.

Alternatively right click on My Computer on start menu, then properties, hardware, device manager, then display adapters where it will list your graphics card.

If it is nvdia then note the model number and return to the web site and check for updates. Follow the instructions. I had to do it recently for a game, it was a bit scary as you have to uninstall the old drivers first, but quite straight forward.

gaming_guy

if you have windows xp (im sure you will!)

control panel > system > hardware tab > device manager > then click on the little plus next to display adapters then it should say something along the lines of 'nvidia geforce [ model no such as fx 5200]' or ati radeon [model no such as 9200] for example

bamberbamboo

NVIDIA GEForce MX/MX400 (microsoft corporation) and the game is asking for NVidia GE Force III or greater

bamberbamboo

I have just right clicked on the NVIDIA Ge Force2 in system tools and it said find updates so trying that now, got to restart my pc so let you know in 5 mins xx

bamberbamboo

Thanks guys it's done, she's gonna try to play the game now an I'm going to bring her pc downstairs to put my internet on it so can see if I can upgrade her driver now thanks for your help :):)