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How to download Nivdia Driver without graphics card

Hi. There is this new game I downloaded that I'm really excited to play. But I think the graphics I have may be too low for this particular game. I went on the help website for the game and they said I must I download either Nvidia Drivers or the AMD Radeon Graphics Driver (I hope that makes sense). I've installed both of these drivers but with no luck it kept showing me an error on the screen and that it couldn't download the drivers into my laptop. I've got an HP Pavilion 14 Laptop; which is a laptop from Microsoft and I have Windows 11. The graphics that were pre-installed in the laptop is Intel(R)Iris(R)Xe Graphics. I saw both prices of the graphic cards and there quite pricy. So I'm just wondering if it will be possible to download one of the drivers without the card.

Thanks
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Original post by Shinya_Kogami
Hi. There is this new game I downloaded that I'm really excited to play. But I think the graphics I have may be too low for this particular game. I went on the help website for the game and they said I must I download either Nvidia Drivers or the AMD Radeon Graphics Driver (I hope that makes sense). I've installed both of these drivers but with no luck it kept showing me an error on the screen and that it couldn't download the drivers into my laptop. I've got an HP Pavilion 14 Laptop; which is a laptop from Microsoft and I have Windows 11. The graphics that were pre-installed in the laptop is Intel(R)Iris(R)Xe Graphics. I saw both prices of the graphic cards and there quite pricy. So I'm just wondering if it will be possible to download one of the drivers without the card.
Thanks

No because that's not how it works.

The drivers help the graphics card 'communicate' with the OS and the game. Each graphics card has different capabilites.

It's like expecting a french man (your intel) to speak russian (with the nvidia driver) - it's not going to happen.
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Original post by Shinya_Kogami
Hi. There is this new game I downloaded that I'm really excited to play. But I think the graphics I have may be too low for this particular game. I went on the help website for the game and they said I must I download either Nvidia Drivers or the AMD Radeon Graphics Driver (I hope that makes sense). I've installed both of these drivers but with no luck it kept showing me an error on the screen and that it couldn't download the drivers into my laptop. I've got an HP Pavilion 14 Laptop; which is a laptop from Microsoft and I have Windows 11. The graphics that were pre-installed in the laptop is Intel(R)Iris(R)Xe Graphics. I saw both prices of the graphic cards and there quite pricy. So I'm just wondering if it will be possible to download one of the drivers without the card.
Thanks

I think you're severely misunderstanding what drivers are, they are effectively a little book of instructions for how a component (the graphics card) should interact with the computer. An Nvidia driver without an Nvidia graphics card is absolutely meaningless to your system- think of it like if you were to hand your sister an instruction manual for operating a submarine while trying to teach her to ride a unicycle.

If your laptop only has integrated graphics, then that's all it has.
As above, you need the graphics card and the accompanying driver to do anything.
Original post by TNGFR
I think you're severely misunderstanding what drivers are, they are effectively a little book of instructions for how a component (the graphics card) should interact with the computer. An Nvidia driver without an Nvidia graphics card is absolutely meaningless to your system- think of it like if you were to hand your sister an instruction manual for operating a submarine while trying to teach her to ride a unicycle.
If your laptop only has integrated graphics, then that's all it has.

Yeah I didn't know what it was before but then I did more research and found out what its for and how it actually works, so it's pretty much useless if I don't have it. Thanks for the reply.
Original post by mesub
No because that's not how it works.
The drivers help the graphics card 'communicate' with the OS and the game. Each graphics card has different capabilites.
It's like expecting a french man (your intel) to speak russian (with the nvidia driver) - it's not going to happen.

Yeah that makes sense thanks.
Original post by Admit-One
As above, you need the graphics card and the accompanying driver to do anything.

Got if thank you

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