How do I reinstall the "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter"?

Question

My device is an HP Pavilion 15 laptop with an integrated Intel Iris Plus graphics card. In my device manager under display adapters I normally have 2, "Intel(R) Iris(R) Plus Graphics" and "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter". I don't know why, but while I was doing something I remember going to the device manager and uninstalling the second display adapter. I have done this before with the first adapter and then followed some tutorial and successfully got it back, but this time I have no idea what I did last time and how to fix it. Ever since I did this, some of my games have been having screen tearing and sometimes youtube videos start getting stuck on one picture while the sound is playing, resulting in me having to restart my computer to fix it. How could I get back the second display adapter? Also I already tried system restoring but I have no restore points before the accident. I also tried the method involving adding legacy software and that didn't work. Is there anything else I can do or will I have to reset my laptop and keep my files?

Answer 1

I think that the Microsoft basic display adapter is what I uninstalled.

Answer 2

Sth. must be left over, else you would have a blank screen.

Scan the PCI devices with Read & Write Everything

Otherwise boot in safe mode and check if you see the MS basic display driver there.

Answer 3

The Intel Iris Plus Graphics is what is left over. I booted it in safe mode and still only had Intel Iris Plus Graphics. I've seen lots of people say that the MS basic display adapter is the adapter you use until you can get the one for your system and then you don't need it, but for whatever reason my system works better with it installed as well.

Answer 4

If you have another PC handy, you can copy the driver from:

*c:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\basicdisplay.inf_amd64_84f9ced7d6c8f726*

Probably with another hex number at the end.

But there are also 170 hits for basicdisplay in the registry...

Answer 5

I did that but then found out I already have the driver in that folder. How do I get the driver in device manager.