Why do you need video card drivers?

Answer 1

Yes. Many video card's will be recognized by Windows XP, and will run corectly without installing drivers. To have optimum performance, always download the latest drive from the manufacturers website. If you don't have the drivers on a CD or on your machine, this works also. I always use the latest driver from the manufacturer.

Answer 2

I am no expert, but as computers can use graphics cards without drivers, I gather that said drivers increase the performance of the graphics cards. If you had your computer preassembled you can probably assume that the driver is already installed, but I don't see why you shouldn't try reinstalling it to see if it boosts performance. This is backed up by other information I've read online.

Answer 3

A lot of today`s motherboards come with a video graphics chip so you really don`t need a video card in those cases...however..for the ones that do not, a video card typically would be useful, if say, you wanted to see what you are doing on the computer...as opposed to imagining what you are doing.

Most people currently install a vido card for improved graphics handling during Video Games, watching videos, editing videos, as the installed card would generally give you a better image than an oem chip.

Also, installing a graphics card would generally improve the amount of video memory (a lot of the video cards currently available have their own memory chips) thereby allowing your computer to allocate less memory to graphics handling, and more memory to running your programs.

I deally, you would want to install a video card just to make your computer run faster.

Answer 4

Without one, you won't have anything on the screen. Back then, the video/graphics cards were integrated into the system board/motherboard. Later on, manufacturers added support for dedicated graphics, and then with the introduction of the Core i3, i5, and i7 series (Intel) and their AMD equivalents, the integrated graphics moved out of the motherboard and straight into the CPU.