I have a Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop and my Sims 2 game has red flashing walls which mean I need a better video card but I don't know much about them. Can anyone help?? Thanks in advance|||Unfortunately you can't upgrade the video of most notebooks, so you're stuck with what you have.|||go to support.dell.com and enter your service tag and it will tell you what was shipped.
Or it looks like this -
15" XGA LCD Display and SiS 650 Integrated Graphics with 64MB Shared Memory.
Looks like an integrated card - might be able to allocate more RAM to it, but probably not upgrade it.|||if you have windows xp click the start button then right click on my computer and choose properties. A window will pop up and should have a tab that says "hardware" click on that then click on "device manager" that will bring another window up. The 3rd item down on that list should say "display adapter" click the + sign beside that and it should tell you what your display adapter (video card" is. As for upgrading...seems that's not an option according to the source I am going to give you, however maybe you could try contacting dell and see.|||If you don't have any luck with the above then you could look on your delivery note/invoice? OR If you right click on 'My Computer'; hit properties and go to Hardware, then Device Manager. Under Display/Video Adaptors (or similar) you should see one or two entries...right click and hit properties, this should bring up a dialog giving you the info you need.
Alternatively, for more detailed information, go to Start > Run and type "dxdiag" (no quotes) click OK and after a time you will have the same info there, often more detailed.
Neither of these methods will affect your system in any way.
In terms of upgrading, laptops can be tricky, as the internal parts are often difficult to access and replace. There are one or two external video cards around, however, and more soon to be released - try Google.
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