Download driver pack for amd card. How and where to download drivers for ATI Radeon video cards

How to update the ATI Radeon video card driver? I know that once every six months it is advisable to update the drivers for the main components of the computer: the motherboard and video card. I went to Device Manager, found my video card there, selected Properties, then Driver, then Update and no update happened,

A window just appeared with the message “ Windows has determined that the drivers for this device do not need to be updated.»

But admin, my friend has the same laptop and the same video card, and we have the same Windows installed, and his video card driver version is newer than mine. Why?

How to update the ATI Radeon video card driver

Before update the driver for our ATI Radeon video card, first we will determine the development date of the ATI video card driver already installed in our system and its version, and after the update we will compare everything. Go to the Properties of our Computer.

Select Device Manager

In it we open Video adapters.

The model of our video card is ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500/5100 Series, right-click on it and select Properties, then Driver. The driver development date is 07/03/2012 and its version is 8.900.100.3000.

Then, select Automatically Detect and Install and Download Now

The page for automatically installing and updating AMD Driver Autodetect drivers opens, click Download.

Click “Launch”

Our video card and the driver we need are automatically detected. Click Download.

The ATI Radeon video card driver update process starts. Click Install.

Install.

Quick installation.

User agreement. Accept. The driver and related services are being updated.

Ready. If you wish, you can look at the installation log.

We look in the Device Manager for the development date of November 16, 2012 and the version of the driver we installed 8.970.100.7000. In our case, the ATI Radeon video card driver was updated to the latest version!

AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition– a comprehensive package of drivers for Windows designed to improve the graphics capabilities of video cards from the well-known company AMD. By installing them, you can significantly improve the performance of your video card, provide expanded control over its functions, and at the same time make video and game playback softer and smoother. In addition, AMD Radeon drivers contain useful utilities that provide convenient control of your computer's multimedia capabilities. Versions are available for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7, as well as Windows 10 64 Bit.

Purpose of the program:

• Improving the performance characteristics of AMD video cards.
• Improved quality of 2D and 3D graphics.
• Flexible adjustment of screen parameters: changing resolution, color, refresh rate, orientation, etc.
• Possibility to change the configuration of up to nine desktops.
• Saving individual settings for each screen.
• Support for VSR technology - rendering images in a higher resolution than that set in the display settings.
• Support for AMD CrossFire - combining two or more video cards to increase overall performance.
• Smoothes video streams in games using AMD FreeSync technology.
• Manage different applications via a specific desktop.

Among other features, AMD Radeon utilities can assign hot keys for easier work and provide settings for some parameters of 3D applications and viewing the characteristics of the hardware responsible for video.

Installing AMD Radeon Drivers

The package is installed as a regular program and does not require any fine-tuning. The hardware (video card) on the computer is detected automatically using the Autodetect utility. Download AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition for free in Russian is available on this page, all popular versions of Windows are supported.

Good afternoon. Video card performance greatly depends on the drivers used. Very often, developers make fixes to drivers that can slightly improve the performance of the card, especially for new games.

The picture in the game (or in the video) freezes, it may start to twitch and slow down (especially if, according to the system requirements, the game should work normally);

Change the color of some elements. For example, I once had fire not displayed on my Radeon 9600 card (more precisely, it was not bright orange or red - instead it was a faded light orange color). After the update, the colors sparkled with new colors!;

Some games and applications crash with video driver errors (such as “no response was received from the video driver...”).

So, let's get started...

1) How to find out the model of your video card?

Before downloading and installing/updating drivers, you need to know exactly the model of your video card. Let's look at several ways to do this.

Method No. 1

The easiest option is to pick up the documents and papers that came with the PC upon purchase. In 99% of cases, these documents will include all the characteristics of your computer, including the video card model. Often, especially on laptops, there are stickers with the indicated model.

Method No. 2

Use some special utility to determine the characteristics of your computer (link to an article about such programs:). I personally, lately, like hwinfo the most.

Pros: There is a portable version (no need to install); free; shows all the main characteristics; There are versions for all Windows operating systems, including 32 and 64 bit; no need to configure, etc. - just start in 10 seconds. you will know everything about your video card!

For example, on my laptop this utility produced the following:

Video card - AMD Radeon HD 6650M.

Method No. 3

I don’t really like this method, and it is suitable for those who update the driver (rather than install it again). In Windows 7/8, you first need to go to the Control Panel.

Then in Device Manager, open the “video adapters” tab - your video card should be displayed there. See screenshot below.

And so, now knowing the card model, you can start looking for a driver for it.

2) Update driver for AMD (Radeon) video card

The first thing you need to do is go to the official website of the manufacturer, to the drivers section - http://support.amd.com/ru-ru/download

Then there are several options: you can manually set the parameters and find the driver, or you can use the auto search (for this you will need to download a small utility to your PC). Personally, I recommend installing manually (more reliable).

Selecting AMD driver manually...

Then specify the main parameters in the menu (consider the parameters from the screenshot below):

Notebook Graphics (video card from a laptop. If you have a regular computer, specify Desktop Graphics);

Radeon HD Series (the series of your video card is indicated here, you can find out from its name. For example, if the model is AMD Radeon HD 6650M, then its HD series);

Windows 7 64 bits (indicate your Windows OS).

Actually: all that remains is to download and install them. With this, usually no further problems arise...

3) Updating the driver for the Nvidia video card

Official website for downloading drivers for Nvidia video cards - http://www.nvidia.ru/Download/index.aspx?lang=ru

Let's take as an example the GeForce GTX 770 video card (not the newest, but to show how to find the driver it will do).

Product type: GeForce video card;

Product series: GeForce 700 Series (the series follows from the name of the GeForce GTX 770 card);

Product family: indicate your GeForce GTX 770 card;

Operating system: just specify your OS (many drivers come automatically for Windows 7 and 8).

4) Automatic driver search and update in Windows 7/8

In some cases, it is possible to update the driver for a video card even without using any utilities - directly from Windows (at least now we are talking about Windows 7/8)!

1. First you need to go to device Manager- you can open it from the OS control panel by going to the section System and security.

3. Then you need to select a search option: automatic (Windows will search for drivers on the Internet and on your PC) and manual (you will need to specify the folder with the drivers located).

Windows has determined that the drivers for this device do not need to be updated.

5) Special Driver search utilities

In this article I will present one that I use myself to find the latest driver updates - Slim Drivers. It searches so well that after scanning it, there is nothing more to update in the system!

Although, of course, the category of such programs should be treated with a certain degree of caution - before updating drivers, make a backup copy of the OS (and if something goes wrong, roll back; by the way, the program creates backup points for system recovery automatically).

Official website of the program: http://www.driverupdate.net/

By the way, when you update all the drivers, you can make a backup copy of all drivers directly in Slim Drivers. They may be needed if you have to reinstall Windows in the future or if you suddenly update some drivers unsuccessfully and you need to roll back the system. Thanks to the backup copy - well, you will need to look for the drivers, spend time on this - the program will be able to simply and easily restore them from the prepared backup copy.

That's all, happy update everyone...

Not all users know how to update AMD Radeon video drivers. I want to provide instructions. There's really nothing complicated.

Determining the video card model

You need to accurately determine the model of the video adapter. This is done in several ways. Let's look at each of them.

device Manager

1. Call Device Manager. This is done differently on each version of Windows. The universal way is to click Win+R, in the window that appears, enter devmgmt.msc and click Enter.




2. Find and expand the tab "Video adapters".




3. The model will be indicated there.

AIDA64 Extreme

On the Internet you can find programs and utilities that will identify all the components of your computer. One of these is AIDA64:






Updating the driver

You have found out the model, all that remains is to update the ATI Radeon drivers. This is also done in several ways.

AMD official website

There are two options available: select the model yourself and download the driver, or download an application that will automatically detect and install the AMD driver. Let's look at both:




device Manager

Often this method of updating ATI Radeon drivers does not work well, but it does happen:



Programs and utilities for updating

On the Internet you can find a lot of programs that automatically install AMD drivers or update them. For example, DriverPack Solution or Driver Genius. It is enough to download any of them. It will detect all computer devices and find the latest software for them. You will only have to choose which software to update.