I am having problems with my video card. I own a Windows Vista Home Premium. For example, I tried to go onto Windows Movie Maker and this is what popped up:
Windows Movie Maker cannot start because your video card doesn't support the required level of hardware acceleration or hardware acceleration is not available.
It also said something about DirectX. Can someone help me? I really can't do anything on my computer until I can change my video card. Thanks.|||Changes to your operating system or new software may cause conflicts with your video card or video card driver. If the manufacturer of your video card has created a new driver, you may solve the problem by installing it. You might also upgrade the driver to take advantage of a new video format.Right-click on My Computer.
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Select Properties.
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Click on the Device Manager tab.
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Click on the plus sign to the left of "Display adapters." The name of the driver appears. Make a note of it.
Finding and Downloading a Newer Driver
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Go directly to the Web site of your driver's manufacturer.
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Click on the link for your video card, brand of video card or brand of video chip (if you don't have a separate video card).
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Follow instructions to download the driver.
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Save the file on your computer's desktop.
Installing the New Driver
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Find the existing driver in the Device Manager, as before. Right-click on it and select Remove.
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Double-click on the icon for the downloaded file.
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Follow installation instructions.
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Restart the computer.|||The primary reason for finding out just what kind of video card / graphics card our computer uses is usually because we need to find out if they’re powerful enough to run the latest graphics-intensive video games or video editing programs which usually come with rather demanding requirements where video cards are concerned. As video games continue to evolve and continue to pump more and more polygons and require more power, you’ll find that upgrading your graphics card is a must.
Fortunately newer computers, and even notebooks, from reputable computer dealers such as Dell and Alienware, come equipped with great ATi Radeon or nVidia GeForce video cards that can usually handle anything you throw at them; they also come with a somewhat hefty price tag but at least it’s your decision as to just how much power you’re willing to pay for.
Anyway, in order to find out just what kind of video card your computer has, we need to navigate to the Display Settings area of our PC. Click the Start button and go to Control Panel. After doing so, make sure you have the default Windows Vista view selected, as opposed to the alternate Classic Windows XP View, and underneath the Appearance and Personalization heading, select Adjust screen resolution.
You should now be presented with a brand new window informing you of what kind of video card you have installed, as well as what resolution you might be using.|||Video adapter
Also known as a graphics card, video card, video board, or a video controller, a video adapter is an internal circuit board that allows a display device such as a monitor to display a picture from the computer. Today video cards are most commonly connected to the AGP slot or PCIe slot on the motherboard, however, can also be found on-board or in a PCI slot.
Video adapter
Also known as a graphics card, video card, video board, or a video controller, a video adapter is an internal circuit board that allows a display device such as a monitor to display a picture from the computer. Today video cards are most commonly connected to the AGP slot or PCIe slot on the motherboard, however, can also be found on-board or in a PCI slot.
Picture of the ATI Radeon 9600 video card
Above is an example image of the ATI Radeon 9600 AGP video card; most video cards today resemble the picture shown below. As can be seen in the above picture this video card has three connections, the standard VGA connector, S-Video connector, and the DVI connector.
* Complete information and help with video cards can be found on our video card help page.|||Go to this website and it will show you how to install a new video card for a vista computer.
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windo…
****It may be a virus since it stared when you click on the movie maker. If you can't run a scan on your computer and try to fix the virus, than you really need to send it to a local computer technician so they can look at it. Make sure you tell him how it happened.|||When a display adapter is having problems it can have all kinds of symptoms: crashes, hangs, freezes, graphics artifacts (display corruption), and more. If your video card is displaying some things incorrectly then you may be able to identify the problem by comparing your screen errors with examples screenshots. This page contains some screenshots of video cards which are showing different kinds of visual problems. But if your video card is crashing or hanging then it's often difficult to find the cause because so many different problems can result in the same symptoms. There's a standard set of fixes which you can try out to see if the problem goes away. If none of the standard fixes work then things get more complicated. If you're not sure what to do then you should just run through all of them. If none of them solve the problem or point out which hardware is malfunctioning then you can start making support calls or go out onto the Internet and ask for help in the support forums.
Before trying these fixes it's a good idea to create a system restore point as described here. A restore point allows you to undo software changes you make while trying to solve your video card problem.
Fix #1: install the latest motherboard chipset drivers
Your motherboard contains a CPU, some RAM, expansion slots, and various devices. But it also contains some chips which make all those parts work together. The most important of these chips are called the chipset. You need to install the chipset drivers to make sure that everything on your motherboard is working reliably and running at full speed. The chipset makers from time to time put out new chipset drivers to improve compatibility and solve stability problems. On occasion, installing display drivers or software updates (noteably installing Windows XP SP2) have been known to cause problems with chipset drivers which requires them to be reinstalled. Chipset driver problems are often responsible for crashes of AGP video cards and can affect stability of expansion slots. So if you are having any kind of problems with your display card, you should always update your chipset drivers because bad or missing chipset drivers can cause problems which have all kinds of symptoms. People often advise that you "install the latest drivers" but many forget to do it for their chipset drivers. It's relatively easy and it may solve your problem. Full instructions on how to install your chipset drivers are here.
Fix #2: uninstall your old display drivers and then install the latest display drivers
Your video card must have a display driver installed in order to do anything but the most basic drawing to the screen. If you're having any problems with your video card, one of the first things you should do is download the latest display driver, uninstall the current display driver, and then install the new driver you downloaded. This can make lots of problems disappear. There is no point in spending time trying to trace down the cause of video card problems until you've completed this initial step. Removing your old driver and installing a new one gets you all the latest bug fixes. It can also solve problems with damaged display driver installations. Even if you are already running the latest driver then you should uninstall it and then reinstall it. That assures that your display driver is installed properly and that none of it has been damaged. On occasion, you may find that your problem is solved by running an older driver rather than the latest one. Rolling back to a previous driver is more likely to help if you have an older video card, but if you want to be thorough you can also try this for newer video cards. Always remember to uninstall your current display driver before installing one. If you don't uninstall first then you can sometimes cause some pretty obscure problems. Full instructions on how to uninstall your display drivers are here and full installation instructions are here.|||A video card determines, in part, the number of colors and the resolution you can get from your monitor. These instructions will work for the majority of Pentium or newer PCs running Windows 95/98. If your computer currently has a video chip or your video card requires a change in jumpers or IRQs, installation will be much more complicated.
Shut down the computer.
Leave the computer plugged into the surge suppressor.
Disconnect all peripherals from the computer.
Remove the cover of the chassis.
Put on a grounding strap if you have one and follow its instructions. Otherwise, ground yourself by touching a metal part of the chassis.
Remove the computer's back panel if necessary.
Remove old video card. Put the new video card into that slot if it will fit physically. Skip to Step 11.
If upgrading from a PCI card to an ISA card, find an open PCI slot.
Knock out or unscrew the metal plate on slot holder on the computer's back panel.
Insert the video card gently but firmly into a slot. Don't touch any connectors on the card. Rock it into position if necessary, but don't force it.
Replace the back panel and any removed screws. Screw the video card into the slot holder if it has a screw hole.
Reconnect the monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Reboot the computer.
If your monitor displays properly, the card is working.
Follow onscreen instructions to install driver and additional software. If Windows doesn't prompt you, manually complete the installation using the Add New Hardware control panel.
Adjust controls on your monitor and settings in the Display control panel.
Shut down the computer.
Replace the computer cover. Reboot the computer.
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