I am trying to upgrade my graphics card with new drivers

I play the Sims 3 and recently the game started to freeze. I researched and most advised to update my graphics card. To be sure of my graphics card type I ran the Intel System Identification Utility and this is the information it gave me:
Graphics Product [3] Intel® HD Graphics 3D Acceleration No Hardware Transform & Lighting Support No Video Memory 1.7 GB Vertex Shader Support 4.0 Pixel Shader Support 4.0 Graphics Product [1] Intel® HD GraphicsGraphics Driver Version not detected 3D Acceleration Yes Hardware Transform & Lighting Support Yes Video Memory 2.6 GB Vertex Shader Support 5.0 Pixel Shader Support 5.0 Microsoft DirectX* Version
11.0
I tried installing the driver called Intel High-Definition (HD) Graphics Driver at this link:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-95107-1&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&...
but it gave me the following error message: The driver being installed is not validated for this computer. Please obtain the appropriate driver from the computer manufacturer. Setup will exit.
I am running MS Windows 7 (64 bit). I hope this is enough information. Please help if you can.

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