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My computer video card sometimes crashes when I watch videos from other sites but not YouTube. I can watch YouTube all day-n-night. The video crashes, recovers, then Windows blue screens, and then reboots.

Is it time for a new video card?

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Or new drivers...

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Why do you think it is a hardware problem and not software (win 10)? Also do you have a separate card or is the graphics processor on the motherboard?

Windows 7
Asus motherboard
Radeon videocard

Any recommendations on video driver to try?

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That depends on how old your video card is. If it's relatively new, just use the AMD driver update tool
https://www.amd.com/en/support

However, new drivers aren't always stable with really old video cards.

What driver are you using now?
AMD, Microsoft...?

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Walt

I'm still running Windows 7 and plan on keeping it that way. I don't update drivers unless there's a reason to suspect that a driver is in fact causing a problem. If it ain't broke, don't break it. As far as the crashing issue I suspect it's the porn web sites video streams that are causing the problem, not the graphics card. Are you watching in a browser when you have the problem?

If you decide to upgrade to Windows 10 anyway, you can still do it for free, at least you could a few months ago:

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-download-windows-10-for-free-now-that-windows-7-is-dead/

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Have you considered running Ubuntu (linux)?

What browsers and programs can I use with that?

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If you do go with Windows 10, during the install basically reply no to all the extras Windows wants to install. If you do that you will wind up with a much cleaner more stable system.