Replying to Do I Need A New Video Card?

I have a friend who has no pixel shaders, he's running on simply CS:S and Halo, and if it is an oldschool game then you shouldn't have to update your graphics looking at the specs of the game, if it doesn't work try not using that graphics card becuase pixel shaders is a must, almost all graphics cards are way over 64mb i mean you never see a 128mb in shops now

Not quite true, the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 is AGP and so are the ATI X1900s.

They come out faster on PCIe, but if you're willing to wait, there's going to be AGP versions later.

xboxrulz

Well it depends on the brand of card you are using for a driver update. Driver updates are VERY simple. Navigate to the ATI or NVIDIA site, depending on which card you have. Find the download driver link for nvidia forceware or ati catalyst drivers.
Simply follow the instructions to download the file, then install it.
If you are still getting issues it's the card itself that needs updating.

Go out and buy a mid range card, best value for money i find. But before you do, you need to make sure your motherboard can run it. You need to know wheather your motherboard supports AGP or PCI-E for the video card connections. If it is on AGP, you seriously need to consider a full system upgrade. Every mid and high end card comes in PCI-E now. You will have little luck with AGP.

Installing it is a simple as finding the slot on your motherboard, slotting the card in and screwing it to the case. When you boot up, navigate to the manufactures site and download the latest drivers for the new model.

Hope it helps
-HellFire

As everyone here has said "It will be a little helpful to know about your card and configurations", so as I. And probably it might be due to an older video-card or it can be also due to the older-driver version of your current Graphic-card. The former problem can be solved by purchasing a new video-card and the latter can be easily solved without any costs involved by downloading the newer version of the driver from the driver's manufacturer's site. I'll also suggest that if you have low video memory and ample RAM try increasing the video-memory in the BIOS menu.
Good Luck.

I think it's just a driver problem. try to update it.

After looking at this again, surely you would want to update the card as Pixel Shader 1.1 and 64MB of VRAM is bare minimum and is too little memory for newer games like The Sims 2 or Battlefield 2.

xboxrulz

and use ATI its much better then NVIDIA

come on man. it's easy to update your video-card. just follow the instruction to update.

I think he/she has the minimum requirements as Black and White is a REALLY OLD SKOOL game.

xboxrulz

Driver Issue or a patch