Video card not recognized?

I tried installing Gametap on my computer, was informed I didn't mmet video card requirements. My computer is about 3 years old now, but I bought it with an extra good video card. It's a Radeon something or other.

Anyhow, I googled how to find out what type of card I have, following the directions I find out my computer is showing that I'm using "The system is using the generic video driver. Please install video driver provided by the hardware manufacturer."

So for some reason my computer isn't recognizing my video card.

A little back story. A couple months ago both my disk drives weren't being recognized. I checked them to see if they were disabled for some reason, and they weren't. They were still enabled, but the computer didn't recognize them. After some digging I found help on a message board that lead me to downloaing a file on Microsofts website, followed a few directions and it fixed the problem. Could this be related?

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First, find what model Radeon video card it is. Radeon is made by the company ATI, so when you find the model number go to www.ati.com and go into support/download drivers and find your video card and download the correct software for your computer. Then it will most likely ask you to restart your computer once you install the software, and then it will recognize it.

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^ Indeed. If you bought a mid- or high-end video card three years ago, it is probably a Radeon 95,96,97, or 9800, or some variant of those, which should run the majority of games fine at reasonable resolutions with reasonable detail settings.

Edit: The latest version of the Radeon drivers work with all cards from the 9500 all the way up to the X1950, so try installing that. Here's the win XP version http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/xp/ra...

Download and install the entire catalyst software suite, not just the display driver.

If it tells you your card isn't compatible, go here (http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html ) and try a different card's driver.
You may have to turn your computer off remove the side panel and remove the card and look to see if there is a number or model on it.
http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati/win2k_xp...

Download these drivers

They are performance drivers for video cards, and they are for everything from like radeon 9000 and up, so that should set you up.

Good Luck