Updating Drivers

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I recently downloaded the update and now everytime I play the size of my home system's sun is huge and I can't see the planets or ships. After readeing some of the posts, I realized that my video drivers are bad/need updating. So my question is, How do you go about updating drivers?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
What video card do you have?
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I have the video card that came with the Dell I got which is the Intel 82865G Graphics Controller
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
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Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
ok, i've got a question, my card is vicidia GeForce 2 on XP Home OS, i update my drivers alot, i mean it, alot, every single time an update comes out, i get it. How come another application has told me i need to update my drivers as they havn't been updated since 2003!?! I've even downloaded and installed the latest update, something tells me i'm either doing this wrong (totally possible) for 3 years, or my computer is retarded and can't see it's own shoes.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
ok, i've got a question, my card is vicidia GeForce 2 on XP Home OS, i update my drivers alot, i mean it, alot, every single time an update comes out, i get it. How come another application has told me i need to update my drivers as they havn't been updated since 2003!?! I've even downloaded and installed the latest update, something tells me i'm either doing this wrong (totally possible) for 3 years, or my computer is retarded and can't see it's own shoes.


because your card is so old they might not be making new drivers for your specific card. Nvidia makes bundle packs the newwer versions specificly target the newer cards.
And you are getting the drivers from nvidia.com now windows correct?

To the OP dont need 2 threads on a stupid question.
You get them from who ever made your card.
You card was produced by dell so go there.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
thx heroine4life, it pisses me off, but i guess i don't need to get anymore updates, and i've been getting unnesasary updates for 3 years, just think of all the quality time i've wasted, i could've been sleeping!
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

here is the link for the latest drivers for the intel 82865G:

http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel865g/

(1) it took about 30 seconds to find this, using google, seaching for, of all things, "82865G".

(2) it's not a real graphics card. it's a motherboard chipset that does, among other things, graphics. poorly.

since you could play pre-1.2 on it, it will probably do fine for 1.2... but do expect serious taunting when you buy your next game on it and it runs like a slideshow.

@Heroine4Life: well, the newer driver releases do add support for newer cards, but they also contain across-the-board improvements that can help older cards as well, especially in newer games.

and NVIDIA doesn't make different drivers for different cards... it's all the same driver. so if the muffin man has been installing updates for years and it turns out that he's still running a 3 year old driver, it means that something went wrong during the install(s).

if the installer doesn't like the card, it'll tell you so and quit. it wouldn't pretend like it's installing but actually do nothing.

if one wants to be absolutely certain that a driver is properly installing, uninstall the old driver first. i could explain how to do that, but i bet google knows...