Originally Posted by valis
yeah, that's an onboard video card. I'll do some checking for you to see if there is an upgrade to the main driver, give me a few......
FWIW, if you are going to get into some higher level games, you will need to get an upgrade in that department. That's the bad news. Good news is you can get a pretty decent video card for under $100 US these days, so that's not that exorbitant.....that may very well solve a lot of the stuttering you are having as well.
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if I may "horn in"... the reason for that is that "onboard setups"
rarely have their own --specifically designed-- "video-
RAM" it may have some --but almost never enough-- so the it starts using your
main system RAM... to "boost" itself-- if you have many other things running-- or just one big item-- you start running out of
RAM to use... it can't keep everything going so the gaming suffers.
That's why those who game a LOT have really high-end systems...
w/tons of
RAM/ ultrafast harddrives
/really expensive video-cards (sometimes two !)/extra cooling.... it is a whole 'nother world.
It is not uncommon for a serious gamer to spend $4000.00 US --or more on a system... and he/she might upgrade from there once or twice.
Sometimes you can temporarily boost your
ram -- and lessen the load... by disabling a lot of your background-running programs temporarily. Keeping you security on-- unless you diconnect from the web.
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