[Solved] Microsoft Basic Display Adapter Issue on Windows 10/11

Contents:

• Microsoft Basic Display Adapter Overview
• What does Microsoft Basic Display Adapter do on Windows 10?
• How to Fix Microsoft Basic Display Adapter Driver Issue

Microsoft Basic Display Adapter Overview

If you find that your desktop is blurred or blank, you want to figure out what is wrong with the graphics card in device manager, but to your surprise, under the display adapter, your Intel or AMD or NVIDIA card driver is missing, as a result, it presents you the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter just as the picture above.

Without the right graphics card driver, many functionalities on Windows 10 may be impaired, for example, you may find that your PC performs slowly or lags or stutters. On account of the importance of the Intel or AMD driver on Windows 10, you must try every way possible to change the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter to your Intel HD graphics card driver or AMD or NVIDIA drivers.

To fix the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter showing instead AMD or Intel graphics driver on Windows 10, you are supposed to understand what the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter is.

What does Microsoft Basic Display Adapter do on Windows 10?

Microsoft Basic Display Adapter is a software built in Windows 10 and it used to provide display and graphics capabilities when your device driver is not installed or installed incorrectly on Windows 10, here is this post, it is to say the graphics card driver is showing as Microsoft Basic Display Adapter rather than Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA graphics card driver.

How to Fix Microsoft Basic Display Adapter Driver Issue

As a consequence, to turn the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter to Intel or AMD or NVIDIA graphics driver, to solve Windows 10 not recognized the graphics driver issue, you may as well learn how to reinstall or to update the graphics driver.

Solutions:

1: Perform Windows Update

2: Install the Graphics Card Driver in Device Manager

3: Install Graphics Card Drivers Automatically

Solution 1: Perform Windows Update

Now that the Windows 10 prompts you that you did not install the graphics or you have installed the graphics card driver incorrectly, it is certain that you can try to update the graphics card drivers to fix the Microsoft Basic Display adapter issue on Windows 10.

The simplest way to reinstall the graphics card driver is to use Windows update, with which you can reinstall the new graphics drivers, no matter you are using Intel or AMD or NVIDIA graphics card.

To use Windows Update to download and install the right graphics card drivers, you can go as the path:

Settings > Update & Security > Check for Updates.

Once you have checked for updates, Windows 10 will automatically search for the drivers to be updated, in this case, it may find the graphics card driver for you, thus the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter will disappear in device manager and Windows 10 can recognize the right graphics card driver.

Related View: 4 Things About Windows 10 Update You Should Know

Solution 2: Install the Graphics Card Driver in Device Manager

As mentioned above, the reason why Windows 10 only find Microsoft Basic Display Adapter under Display adapter rather than the exact AMD/Intel/NVIDIA graphics card drivers lies in the graphics driver is not installed or installed incorrectly, so you can choose to download and install it via device manager.

1: Enter Device Manager.

2: Expand Display Adapters and right click and choose to Update driver software the graphics card driver, such as Intel/AMD/NVIDIA drivers. Here choose to update Intel HD Graphics card driver.

3: Click Search automatically for updated driver software.

Windows 10 will automatically search online for the latest or compatible Intel HD Graphics card driver.

Usually, you can install the suitable graphics card driver and the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter can be replaced by Intel or AMD or NVIDIA graphics card drivers.

Unless you are computer veteran, or you are strongly recommended to automatically download and install the graphics card drivers.

Solution 3: Install Graphics Card Drivers Automatically

Windows 10 can only find Microsoft Basic Display Adapter instead of the graphics card driver, which is a driver issue, so to fix this graphics card issue quickly and safely, you can make full use of Driver Booster.

Driver Booster is designed to download and install the latest and compatible device drivers for you. It can help users to get the latest graphic driver, audio driver, USB driver, mouse driver etc with one click. And as the best driver scanner, it can detect the most outdated and missing drivers for your computer. You can count on it to install the new graphics card driver for Windows 10.

1. Download Driver Booster on your computer. As long as you installed and run Driver Booster on your PC, follow the steps to get the graphics card driver.

2. Click Scan. You will find Driver Booster is scanning your PC for the missing or corrupted drivers.

In this step, Driver Booster shows you how many drivers need to be updated, including Graphics card drivers, such as Intel HD graphics card driver.

3. Update. With this click, you are able to download and install the graphics card driver as soon as possible.

Driver Booster enables you to find the exact graphics card driver for Windows 10, thus solving the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter showing in device manager rather than the Intel/AMD/NVIDIA graphics card driver.

Aiming at helping you fix the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter not the graphics card driver showing on Windows 10, this post focuses on telling you that the uninstalled or installed improperly graphics card driver cannot turn normal unless you reinstall it on your PC.

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