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In this article you will learn how to get most out of your graphics card by installing new drivers and tweaking Windows. The guide is based around Windows XP Professional Edition but you can use same guide to tweak other Windows operating systems.

Step 1.

The first thing you need to know what graphics card you are using. The most popular graphics card companies are nVidia and ATi. Both these companies have an excellent range of products and offer excellent service. Once you know what graphics card you are using, then head over to companies website where you can download latest drivers.

Drivers are software that runs your graphics card, printer or scanner correctly. Being up to date with drivers will help solve issues that may arise with modern PC games. Just recently I had to update my drivers to fix a problem I had with a game I recently purchased, and this solved my problem.

OK once you have downloaded your drivers for your graphics card make sure you create a restore point using utility System Restore. This can be done my click Start->Programs->Accessories->System Tools and then System Restore. Then follow on screen instructions to create restore point. By doing this it makes sure that if a problem occurs after you installed new drivers, you can return to restore point to see if problem is drivers you installed.