There's a video card and a video accelerator. The video card is what's needed to output the display. A video accelerator basically takes over the job of producing all the beautiful graphics for your system. Sort of like an assistant to your video card. Nowadays, the video card has the video accelerator built-in, so any video card you buy today will have the video accelerator. I would guess that your son's computer is an old one. If you can tell us what game he's trying to run, we can probably give you a recommendation on what video card to buy. ---Troth ----- Original Message ----- From: Madeleine Jacobs To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 3:24 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- video accelerator I do not know if anyone replied to me and I accidentally deleted their email??? If I'm posting twice on this subject, forgive me. My son's computer games give him error messages saying he's required to have a video accelerator. Where do I find this, what kind would I need, how do I find what he needs etc. TIA Madeleine To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk
