Budget bore

[halfeatenmoon]

My computer's gone crazy and I can't switch the settings from 4-bit colour and some wacky resolution that's all wrong for the monitor. (Well, I say 'my' computer like I own it. I don't. The computer that I use to access the internet is stuck in 4-bit colour and my web browser occasionally crashes for no discernable reason

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[illidanstr]

Lies. My computer loves me right now.

[pointytilly]

MINE LOVES ME TOO.

Though Firefox 3 occasionally falls over, completely at random. It must be some weird crap it's got goin' on, because there's a few other people it happens to (and it's NOT Flash, I checked).

If it's the same problem for you, try Opera?

[halfeatenmoon]

Okay, it's back to crazy again. How do I fix video drivers or whatever they are?

[illidanstr]

What operating system you have?

You'll also need to know what video card you have. It's either made by Intel, Nvidia, or ATI. Go to the control panel, click "system" (you may have to switch to classic view first), click "device manager", there'll be tens of devices.. click the "display adaptors" one and it'll show the model number of your video card! If that's confusing I can probably tell you an easier way depending on which version of Windows you're using.

[illidanstr]

ohyeah. once you know which one, just download from your manufacturer's website and install... for example

http://www.nvidia.com/page/drivers.html
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/
http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.HTML