This example shows how to update on Win7x64.
Video card drivers are important for all computers because they tell the operating system (Windows 7) how to operate your video card. Updating your video card drivers is required when you experience graphical issues with DraftSight and or instabilities that just exist on your specific machine. It’s very important to choose the right drivers for your video card otherwise your computer may crash. By following this simple instruction you too can update your video card drivers.
Automatic update
- Start
- Control Panel
- Hardware and Sound
- Device Manager
- Expand Display adapters
- Click on the video card shown and select ‘Update Driver Software...’.
7. In the dialog pick ‘Search automatically for updated driver software’.
8. If windows found a new driver, update your computer.
Manual update
- Start
- Control Panel
- Hardware and Sound
- Device Manager
- Display adapters – write down the name of your video card,
In this case: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700
6. Go to the manufacturer's website and search for a driver or download section.
DELL: http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/DriversHome/ShowProductSelector
HP: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/drivers.html
NVIDIA: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
http://www.nvidia.com/object/dassault_certified_drivers.html
INTEL: http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/graphics
ATTENTION SOLIDWORKS AND CATIA USERS
We highly recommend to update the driver manually if you use Catia or SolidWorks, in order to make sure to use the certified graphic card driver as listed on the webpages below:
http://www.solidworks.com/sw/videocardtesting.html
http://www.3ds.com/support/news/?subcategory/driver+updates/
7. Enter your video cards information that you wrote down earlier.
8. Download the driver to your computer (remember the download folder).
9. Run your download from the selected location and follow the on screen instructions.
10. Restart your computer.
