It’s throwing up an error saying the drivers arnt updated but after updating and restarting the error is still there, any suggestions what to do?
If you are able to use it, it isn't fully dead. You could try uninstalling and reinstalling the GPU drivers
If you have a good friend with a desktop, you could try sticking the card into their pc to see if it has the same issue
I uninstalled it via device manager and reinstalled it but still having the same error unfortunately
I don't know if this applies to your situation, but I ran into this last week...
If you have an AMD card (and are on Windows):
AMD's system tray software (formerly "Catalyst," now they're calling it "Adrenalin" or some bullshit) recently got out of sync with the driver version published by Windows Update, which broke the system tray program. You can download the driver package from AMD's website and reinstall, and it should work fine after that until the next time Windows Update lags behind the official drivers.
If you're not using Windows, then disregard. As for the video card, if you don't have an AMD, then I'm not sure whether something similar may have happened with Nvidia or onboard Intel GPU drivers, but it's definitely possible.
That's just as likely a weird wacky OS or driver installer failure as anything else. See what happens with a Linux boot live distro?
Sorry I’m a bit of a novice with this stuff what’s Linux boot live distro?
You can basically tell a computer that a USB stick with Linux on it is the main hard drive and have a full OS to mess with free of anything that's currently fucking your system. If the graphics come up fine in Linux, and if you can manage to find something 3d to render, you should be able to verify if the issue is the card or the computer or the OS. https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows#1-overview
