PC’s screen glitches or stutters issue while playing games or watching videos is usually an indication that your video card driver needs update, download or reinstallation. In this article, we will guide you how to reinstall video drivers.
Video Card or otherwise called Graphic Card or GPU in short is responsible for proper functioning of any type of medias such as images, videos or games streaming on your device. Video drivers (or Graphic card drivers) is its associated file that makes it possible to communicate between the graphic card and the operating system of your computer.
You should look for upgrading your video card when you experience any issues when trying to use any media editing tools or games as it could be the case that it is too weak to render the pictures you want to process. Obviously, the drivers are not always faulty and it may the case that the Windows update fails to upgrade the drivers or the drivers got corrupted after the Windows update.
You should look for updating and reinstalling audio drivers, network drivers and others so that the PC problems do not occur. The drivers are very important. Windows use the drivers for different companies. On any PC, it is important to have all compatible drivers so that all parts are working within the system. In a hard time of balancing, the issue with Hardware customization abilities might occur that results in various system and files errors.
If your graphic card is not functioning well, it will cause problems when you play games and watch videos. The GPU might nor working because you have recently updated your PC and messed up the important files or any third party software is interfering in the process. The issue could be that your PC couldn’t find the missing updates automatically of the graphic driver or that the graphic driver went corrupt.
Whatever that raises the graphic card not working issue, the only solution is to un-install it and download and install video card driver afresh. Check the instructions below how to reinstall video drivers and enjoy your PC with the full experience.
Steps how to reinstall video drivers
At first, you would have to uninstall the already running driver. You can uninstall it through the Device Manager. Here are the required steps:
- Press Win+ R to open Run Window,
- Type in devmgmt.msc and hit Enter,
- Under Device Manager, double-click the Display adapters option,
- Right-click on the graphic card name and select Uninstall device,
- Confirm the action by clicking Delete the driver software for this device option on the un-install confirm dialogue box and finally click on the Uninstall button.
Once after un-installing the running GPU driver, there are three ways you can perform its download and installation. Here these are:
Way 1: Allow Windows to install the graphic driver automatically
- Upon successful uninstalling the video card, restart the device,
- That is it! The Windows will automatically install the driver from Windows Update.
However, you will not get the latest driver in this case. It is just the generic driver that may work but not the exact one that requires for your device. If you experience the performance issue there even, you should try the next way of performing the driver re-install.
Way 2: Use automatic tool to install drivers
We recommend you use automatic driver updating tool to download and install driver up-to-date and not mal-functioning. This tool is very easy to use. Just download and install the tool form the below link and launch it.
The scan button within the tool is the button to scan for available devices that are connected but lack a correct driver. From the driver list option you can make selection to the device and then click on the Update Selected button to download and install the latest driver version of the device you are looking for.
Way 3: Download driver from the manufacturer’s official website
You can install the usable video driver on your device from the Device’s Manager Option. However, the best way is to visit the manufacturer’s official website an download the most recent drivers for your GPU model.
Conclusion
That’s all! We have provided the guide how to reinstall video drivers. Hopefully, you don’t have any confusion with the steps of the suggested methods. Still, if you have any doubts, communicate with us through the comment section below.
