What is a Video Card Driver?

I just downloaded Second Life.. and it will not allow me to open the program because it says "your video card drivers are either out of date or unsupported. Please make sure you have the latest video card driver's installed". How and where do I get the video card driver or update it if I do have it? I'm so lost! THANKS!

A driver is a software program that allows your hardware to communicate with your computer's operating system.

What the message is saying is that your video card is either not supported (which does not mean it won't work) or the driver for it are out of date and will not work with SL. You can download new or updated drivers at two places. Your computer manufacturers website or the graphics card manufacturer's website..........the best choice (in my opinion) is the graphics card site.

You will need to know who manufactured your card and it's model number. Search for it on the website and download the most recent.

well not 100% manufactured, you need to know who made the chip (ie NVIDIA or ATI) both of those have like 1000000000000 people making the boards to keep up with demand, and keep cost low

hey go to your start menu and go to run and type Dxdiag and run it.. then paste it here if possible to let us know what your working with if your not to computer savvy unless u do know what ya got then plz list your set up, or basiclly your Graphic Card info..that can be done easily by going to start menu again , control panel, device manager, then find the display adapter tab and open it and see what ya got ..this allmight be overkill who knows im tired,lol,

or right click on your desktop choose properties and then the display tab

dxdiag really spits out a sh ton of info, altho very handy for the future, probally not the most direct way for this problem

well yaeah.. vista is a no go that way though.. was thinkin for vista so sorry bout that,lol, plus im difficult..

Vista=control panel, device manager, display adapter.

right click desktop, personalize, display settings, then maybe advanced tab that should have the info u want.,, for vista that is.. nvr used this way before but it works,lol

the op is going to read this and fry a circuit im afraid

basic thing is, you need to know what video chip you have

theres a handfull of ways listed here, find out and let us know

if you right click the desktop and click on personalize then click on display settings you can see what card you have. It should read something like Generic PnP Monitor on [your type of video card]. The message may varry slightly but you should know what type of card you have.

The only thing is if the machine is a laptop it may be difficult to update the drivers on the graphics card. Is the machine a desktop or laptop?