Sometimes a user needs to find out the model of his video card. And this can be done in several ways.
- Via Device Manager
To open device Manager devmgmt.msc. Will open device Manager, in which click on the plus sign next to the category Video adapters. As you can see in the screenshot, the PC has an ATI RadeonHD 6800 Series video card.
If instead of the model it says “Standard VGA graphics adapter,” this means that the drivers for the video card were not installed, so Windows cannot determine its type and model.
Likewise, if there is nothing in Video adapters, and in Other devices If “Video controller (VGA-compatible)” or “Standard VGA graphics adapter” is located, this again means that the official driver was not installed, so Windows installed its own driver. In this case, you can find out the driver version like this: click on Standard VGA graphics adapter(or Video controller (VGA compatible)") right-click and select Properties.
In it, switch to the tab Intelligence, and in the section Property change the item Device Description on Equipment ID.
In chapter Values right-click on the first line and select Copy.
Paste the copied text into a search engine. As you can see in the screenshot, the video card you are looking for is ATI Radeon HD 6800 Series.
- Via Screen Options
To do this, on an empty space on the desktop, right-click and context menu select item Screen resolution. In the window that opens, find Extra options and open them. A window with properties will appear graphic editor. In chapter Intelligence about the adapter, find the item Adapter string. What is written next to it is the video card model.
- Using the program
This program will help you find out the manufacturer of your video card, its model and driver version. And if the driver is missing, Everest will also tell you the official website of the graphics adapter manufacturer, where you can download its latest version.
- Via DirectX Diagnostic Tool
To open DirectX Diagnostic Tool, press Win+R on your keyboard and in the window that appears, write dxdiag. Switch to tab Screen and in the section Device you will see the manufacturer and model of the video card.
- Removing the cover system unit
Typically, video cards always indicate its manufacturer and model.
Hello admin, I ask you not to judge strictly for the question, since I am a beginner in the computer world, please explain what it is? I recently reinstalled the Windows 7 operating system myself and went into the device manager to check the situation with the drivers, but as surprising as it may sound, all the drivers were installed, no yellow triangles with exclamation mark I did not have. Imagine my surprise when several of my games did not work, producing various errors upon startup, although everything was fine before the reinstallation. One of the forums on the Internet advised installing drivers on the video card. And in fact, in the Device Manager in the “Video adapters” item there was no name of my video card, but there was such a device as VGA compatible video controller.
VGA compatible video controller
Hello friends! It means that operating system installed my standard driver for your video card and called your video card this way VGA compatible video controller or Standard VGA adapter,
This driver is not suitable for full-time work on a computer, but is only suitable for simple tasks; of course, modern games do not fit this concept. Therefore, you need to install a normal driver for your video card; this can be done in numerous ways described on our website.
First of all, try, right-click on VGA compatible video controller and select update drivers, it is quite possible that the driver will be updated.
If you still have the box from your video card, then it probably contains a driver disk. From this disk you can install the driver for your video card. But since the drivers on such disks are always outdated, a better solution would be to go to the official website of the video card manufacturer and download latest versions drivers and then install them. Before downloading drivers, you need to know the name of your video card. How to do it?
The simplest way, works in most cases. We find out the Compatible hardware IDs of the device, right-click on the item VGA compatible video controller, select Properties, then Information, in the Device Description look at the Compatible hardware IDs, copy it
And go to the website http://devid.info/ru, enter it in the input field and click Search
and please, we will find out not only the name of our video card, but we can also download drivers for it.
Friends, even if you simply copy the equipment ID code and paste it into the search field of any search engine, the result will be positive in most cases.
Or you can use a more precise method described in our article.
You can do it more elegantly, for example, download and install the Everest program, very convenient program, in Russian, using it you can identify not only your video card, but all devices installed in your system unit. You can also use this utility to set the temperature of the system unit components. Everest works for free for 30 days, then asks itself to buy. A month is more than a long time to determine what is hidden in your device manager behind the name VGA compatible video controller.
Official website of the program http://everest.ru.softonic.com/download, download and run the installation of the utility.
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Hello admin, I ask you not to judge strictly for the question, since I am a beginner in the computer world, please explain what it is? I recently reinstalled the Windows 7 operating system on my own and went into Device Manager to check the situation with the drivers, but as surprising as it may sound, all the drivers were installed, and I didn’t see any yellow triangles with an exclamation mark. Imagine my surprise when several of my games did not work, producing various errors upon startup, although everything was fine before the reinstallation. On one of the forums on the Internet they advised to install drivers for the video card. And in fact, in the Device Manager in the “Video adapters” item there was no name of my video card, but there was such a device as VGA compatible video controller.
VGA compatible video controller
Hello friends! This means that the operating system has installed its standard driver for your video card and called your video card this way VGA compatible video controller or Standard VGA adapter,
This driver is not suitable for full-time work on a computer, but is only suitable for simple tasks; of course, modern games do not fit this concept. Therefore, you need to install a normal driver for your video card; this can be done in numerous ways described on our website.
First of all, try, right-click on VGA compatible video controller and select update drivers, it is quite possible that the driver will be updated.
If you still have the box from your video card, then it probably contains a driver disk. From this disk you can install the driver for your video card. But since the drivers on such disks are always outdated, a better solution would be to go to the official website of the video card manufacturer and download the latest versions of drivers, and then install them. Before downloading drivers, you need to know the name of your video card. How to do it?
The simplest way, works in most cases. We find out the Compatible hardware IDs of the device, right-click on the item VGA compatible video controller, select Properties, then Information, in the Device Description look at the Compatible hardware IDs, copy it
And go to the website http://devid.info/ru, enter it in the input field and click Search
and please, we will find out not only the name of our video card, but we can also download drivers for it.
Friends, even if you simply copy the equipment ID code and paste it into the search field of any search engine, the result will be positive in most cases.
Or you can use a more precise method described in our article.
You can do it more elegantly, for example, download and install the Everest program, a very convenient program, in Russian, with the help of which you can identify not only your video card, but all devices installed in your system unit. You can also use this utility to set the temperature of the system unit components. Everest works for free for 30 days, then asks itself to buy. A month is more than a long time to determine what is hidden in your device manager behind the name VGA compatible video controller.
Official website of the program http://everest.ru.softonic.com/download, download and run the installation of the utility.
In this article, we will consider this issue in detail, because many do not know how to do this and are faced with the message in the device manager Video controller (this is VGA-compatible) or Standard VGA graphics adapter, without knowing where to get the drivers and what exactly needs to be installed. After all, many games and graphics programs do not work without such drivers. In addition, the browser is also very slow when scrolling pages.
Find out the video card model using Windows Device Manager
Launch Windows Device Manager:First you need to enter the device manager. This can be done on Windows 7, 8, 10 and XP by pressing the " Win+R» and register devmgmt.msc You can also click right button mouse to “My Computer”, go to “Properties” and click on the “Hardware” tab.
In the list of devices you will see “ Video adapters", and by clicking on this section, the video card model will be shown. If the video adapter results in Windows reinstallation appears correctly, then for the normal functioning of your computer you will still need to install official drivers, and not those provided by Microsoft.
But there is a second option: in the Video adapters section you will see “Standard VGA graphics adapter”, or in Windows XP “Video controller (VGA-compatible)”, which is in the “Other devices” list. In this case, it means that the video card is not defined and Windows system It is not known which drivers should be used. Let's find out for ourselves.
Recognizing a video card using Device ID
Right-click on the VGA video adapter and select “Properties”. Then go to “Information”, and in the “Property” line select “ Equipment ID».
To find out the hardware ID of a video card, you need to copy absolutely any value to the clipboard (by right-clicking and selecting this item in the menu), the main 2 values are located at the beginning of the identifier - this is VEN and this is DEV, indicating the manufacturer and the device itself.
Display the device ID in the top line on the website. Then information about the video adapter is displayed, and drivers can be downloaded there. But it’s better not to download from this site, but to use the official website of your manufacturer, because now you already know what video card is installed.
Find out video devices using the AIDA64 program
AIDA64 program (it replaced the popular Everest). Thanks to this program, you can find out what the video card costs, as well as other hardware characteristics of any device. The AIDA64 program requires a separate review, but in this article we will discuss it only in the context of the instructions. It can be downloaded from the portal completely free of charge.But, in general, this program is paid, but for a period of 30 days (which has some restrictions) it is provided free of charge and functions perfectly. In other words, to find out which video card is installed, this trial version is enough.
First you need to run this program, then open the “ Computer" and select - " Summary information", in the given list, find the item " Display", in which you will see the model of the video card of your device. You see that everything is quite simple.
There are many ways to determine your video adapter. So, for example, in the case automatic installation drivers using , the video device is detected by itself, but personally I do not recommend this method. The methods listed above will be sufficient to find out about the video card in most situations.