How can you find and driver your display adapter uses?

Answer 1

For Windows based computers:

Left-Click the Start Button

Right-Click "My Computer"

Left-Click "Properties"

Select the "Hardware" tab

Left-Click the "Device Manager" button

It will then open your device manager to view information about your system and system devices.

Find the "Display Adapter" and click the "+" next to it to expand your Display Adapter devices.

Double click the appropriate display adapter. e.g.: " Nvidia Geforce 7800 GTX"

Left-Click the "Driver" tab and information will be displayed about your current Display Adapter. Such as:

Driver Provider / Drive Date / Driver Version / Digital Signer

Along with:

"Driver Detials" to view information about the drivers (the names & locations of the drivers files)

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"Update Driver" (Will open up the Hardware Update Wizard & give the option to Install the software automatically or Install from a list or specific location) (You can also goto the manufacturers website of the display advice and search all the drivers, some software, such as a game may require a certain driver to make the game function correctly)

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"Roll Back Driver" (Provides the option of reverting to the original default driver. This is especially useful if you update with a new driver and have conflict issues after, you can simply choose to roll-back to a working driver)

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"Uninstall Driver" (Self-explanatory. Uninstalls the selected driver)

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Answer 2

You can determine the driver you display adapter uses by checking the properties of the display adapter in Device Manager. Device Manager can be accessed from the System Properties window in Windows OS.

Answer 3

To find this, open up your device manager by right clicking on My Computer, then selecting properties, then in the left, click on device manager. In the new window that pops up, click on the arrow to expand Display adapters then right click on the display adapter who's driver you wish to examine and select properties. From that window, you can click on the driver tab to view the driver details for your display adapter.