How to reinstall video card drivers

MartianCat

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I think something is wrong my video card drivers on windows 10 because I had trouble with opengl and someone said that I should reinstall my video card drivers. How do I do that?
 
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The correct way to remove a a piece of software is to use the Uninstaller which as an entry in the add and remove programs in control panel. From what you posted you just right clicked on the folder and deleted it?

I use opengl for one of my 1995 game i play called
Freepace 2. I need to install open freespace project
Which allows me to run a freespace. The game use direct3d which is dead now so the project uses opengl.

As for DDU yes use it but it not for opengl just your graphics card drivers which are not the same as opengl.

I suggest this run DDU see what it finds and than i use glary utilities to clean extra crap out of my system. Download that and run it use the all in maintenance. Since you removed the opengl folder the...

MartianCat

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Well I accidentally removed opengl not knowing what it was and that I needed it
 

MartianCat

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Well, no. I clicked permanently delete because, again, I didn't know. When I asked what to do on the opengl forums that's when I was told to reinstall my video card drivers. And its for minecraft
 

Blackink

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From what I see on forums around the computer world is to download and use DDU (Display Driver Un-installer) to un-install your graphics drivers and then re-install them.
It's like wiping the hard drive completely clean of any drivers remnants and then you install your drivers. Sort of like a "clean" install.
 

Dave8671

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The correct way to remove a a piece of software is to use the Uninstaller which as an entry in the add and remove programs in control panel. From what you posted you just right clicked on the folder and deleted it?

I use opengl for one of my 1995 game i play called
Freepace 2. I need to install open freespace project
Which allows me to run a freespace. The game use direct3d which is dead now so the project uses opengl.

As for DDU yes use it but it not for opengl just your graphics card drivers which are not the same as opengl.

I suggest this run DDU see what it finds and than i use glary utilities to clean extra crap out of my system. Download that and run it use the all in maintenance. Since you removed the opengl folder the Uninstaller is also deleted. Which i am sure there are parts of it still on the system. Unless i am wrong in how you removed opengl. DDU might detect opengl but it may not.

I also use this Revo Uninstaller which first uses,the application Uninstall program that it will check for left overs and remove them. But this is not really for graphics drivers but useful.

You will need as i said before to download the driver for your graphics card and opengl installer if you do not still have it.
 
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