How to choose the default display adapter driver?

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scallanan

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When I go to:
Device Manager > Display Adapters
..the default driver being used is called 'Intel G33/G31 Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.0)'

When I try to run certain software/games (i.e Sony Vegas; Minecraft) with this driver version, I get errors.

So I follow these steps:
Right-click driver > Click 'Update Driver Software' > Browse my computer for driver software > Let me pick from a list...

3 options are then displayed for me...
1. Intel(R) G33/G31 Express Chipset Family
2. Intel(R) G33/G31 Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM 1.0)
3. Microsoft Basic Display Adapter

When I choose to update the driver to the 1st option, I can run minecraft & sony vegas without any problems. But every time I turn off/on my PC, the driver switches back to the 2nd option, which produces errors when running these programs/games.

Its also pretty annoying in that when I update my driver, I often have to restart PC for the changes to take effect.

Is there a way to make the 1st option the default display adapter driver, so that I don't have to constantly be switching?
 
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scallanan

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Thanks for your answer. I've already gone to the intel website and downloaded/installed the driver corresponding to my integrated graphics chip.

How can I uninstall the bad driver? I tried using Device Manager to uninstall it while it was active, but the screen goes back to a lower resolution and the 'display adapter' dropdown menu in Device Manager disappears as well. I assume this means the very basic driver is being used, and no others are available.



Edit: Not sure if this helps, but when I was installing the driver from the intel website, it gave me a warning that I was installing an older version of the one that was already on my PC. Is it possible that I already had the correct driver installed, but that it wasn't being used? Because I only figured out how to choose from a list of drivers after I had already installed this 'older driver.'
 
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