Tuesday, April 21, 2020

what is video hardware?

Gwenda Micheals: i don't think its my graphics card because i had windows home edition and it worked fine but now i have professional and it doesn't (both windows are on the same computer)

Ambrose Mumma: It probably means graphics card

Cornelius Thornborrow: The video hardware is your VGA card. It would have been helpful if you told "us" what this is. Is it on board graphics or an additional card. Did you upgrade XP Home to Pro or do a clean install? Have you checked to make sure the graphics drivers are installed. It is possible that if Windows is using the Standard VGA drivers that this is where your problem lies. With Home you had the correct drivers, with Pro you now have the wrong drivers and these are not adequate to run the games requirements. If it is on-board VGA then it is likely that with a re-install the settings will be altered in the BIOS, check to see if the amount of allocated (VGA) memory is sufficient to run the game, if not increase from the! BIOS settings (Del or F2 at start up usually)You can right click in the desktop, select properties, Display properties and Advanced and see if you can increase the Video Acceleration, though it may already be at maximum....Show more

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