Driver help

[borbos]

Windows XP seems I haven't updated my video driver since May of last year. Ok this may or may not be a bad thing, I think I remember reading somewhere you should only upgrade drivers if you are having trouble. Well having trouble with Spellforce (real good game btw) It says to remove the old drivers I can do that through the add/remove software in the control panel right? Then restart and install drivers? Is that the correct procedure let me know don't change em that often cause it scares me :) Posted it here cause didn't seem to fit anywhere else feel free to enlighten me.

[doctorgonzo]

You don't remove drives through the Add/Remove Porgrams panel, you remove them through Device Manager. You can also install new drivers from there. Just open Device Manager and go to your video adapter.

[reboot]

Wait. Depending on your video card, yes, you DO remove the drivers by uninstalling from add/remove in control panel.
Don't be afraid to do it, just uninstall, restart, and when prompted, install the new.

[borbos]

First off thanks for all the replies and help. I did remove the driver from the device manager. Once I figured out how to open the device manager. :) I have a Radeon series video card (8500 64mb I think) I then restarted the computer and istalled the catalyst driver package I downloaded from the ati page. Restarted computer and it seemed to work as usual. Started game got to crash point (was giveing a fatal execption error message about a device failure) Got a message from an ATI program saying card encountered a problem would I like to send report to ATI? Did that game was windowed, restored the game and it was still running so guess I kinda fixed it. The part it crashes on is a movie that occurs at that spot in the game. Game is spellforce actually very intresting mix of a lot of differnt types of games. Thanks again.:D

[reboot]

XP has an update for "Video causes freezing..."...go look.