Hi Tony,

Originally Posted By: Tony Wright
why the heck should I have to resort to updating my video driver?


I've found that updating drivers can occur for two main reasons...

1. There was a fault with the driver that needed adjusting.

2. As electronics evolve and, as consequence, software programming languages evolve, it's necessary to have drivers that interface with the requirements of programming languages. (If programming languages didn't evolve, we'd still be back at DOS.)

I had an instance last year where I wrote a small program that worked fine on my computer. When I transferred it to another computer, it wouldn't work. It turned out that the programming I used was only relevant to the newer computer with new drivers.

Given that the area that is playing up for you is the Display Options, and that this is a newly programmed interface, it could be that the latest programming is asking your graphics driver to do something that it cannot... hence the suggestion for an update.

Regards,
Noel


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