Photoshop....o Dear

i have changed to a laptop & of course i don't have the appropriate graphics card for it! did have on the desktop that now lives in the garden shed... any minute now this will go join it's friend. question? is it possible to change the card on a laptop? i do not have an endless supply of money [who does these days].

all advice gratefully accepted & acknowledged.

~peace be with you and yours~

from the Land Down Under

 

You need to give precise information about that laptop - brand, exact model number and its current specifications. There are free programs like Belarc Advisor and Speccy which will tell you exact information if you don't know how to view it yourself. They are here: http://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/sortname/system_info.html
Here is the sticky link from the top of this forum about information needed when asking for help:
When asking for support please tell us about your computer!

 

good evening Max, many years ago my Grandfather said 'if you don't learn something new every day - you might as well stay in bed'...so thank you for your learned advice. i do know name/model/blah blah ....so i shall come back to-morrow [Wed. au] and do 'when asking for advice'. good night from Australia

 

i apologise to the Major i was not aware of what i had to say here. i was given by Legacy a laptop Leveno G550 because the desktop i had was just exacerbating the pain. they usually just clean the outside windows once a year [blame game belongs to me - i don't ask for anything - love being independent]...photoshop/lightroom did work on the desktop, but it lives in the garden shed now.....so here we go. you know the name...runs Windows & Premium 64bit - 8GB it has been checked out & is working beautifully, but i need to update the 'video card' as Mobile Intel (R) 45 express chipset family (Microsoft corp) WDDM11 not compatible - all foreign to me - all help gratefully accepted.

again i apologise to MAJOR ATTITUDE...hope this is better.

 

I presume you mean the laptop runs Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

Go to the Lenovo Support site, enter whichever number they request and go to Drivers and downloads. There you should find the Graphics driver for your particular laptop. If that driver works, do not attempt to update it (except from the Lenovo site). "If it ain't broke, don't 'fix' it."