Graphics card required?

I recently downloaded "Small Rockets Backgammon" to dabble with occasionally. But I have noticed that when playing, the processor (P4 2.93Ghz) goes at around 85% with the cooling fan going for it as well! There is nothing wrong with the PC, it is virus-free, over 1Gb of RAM and perfectly working. The graphics are fairly detalied in the game, so could it be that the "onboard graphics (=none)" on my PC are simply having to work overtime via the CPU to handle everything? Would getting a graphics card lessen the load on the processor?

Graphics card required?

Oh...dear friend, dont worry, as long as your games works properly you dont have to bother about its working process, even I do have the same process, even I noticed like you, my PC Pentium D 2.8GHz 512MB RAM was working around 87-90% while playing NFS Carbon.

Graphics card required?

not really because the processor has then got to run your graphics chip whitch would probablly slow it down more.

what you need to do is close all other background programs and exit all the un-needed programs on the start bar (bottom right of your computer screen)

i reccomend a program called tune up you will find it at www.tune-up.com

oh and bull crap to the guy at the bottom , you dont and dont listen to the americans.... remember what happend last time

Graphics card required?

Sensible question for once and first two guy`s give good answers,thumbs up and a star.

Graphics card required?

Go to walmart,buy a pci vid card for like 70 bucks,and you will notice a decent improval in graphic apps.

Of course since I dont know what OS you are running,I would suggest driver updates,or attempt to run program in compatability mode.

You dont have to have an off board vid card,but it does take some of the pressure off the cpu and ram.

Graphics card required?

Your cpu can be just attempting to keep up with all the applications with the computer. Do you need a video card to help? It might not be a bad idea. The graphics for an on-board video uses the cpu and the graphics chipset to do all the work. A video card can lessen the load a little as the video card gpu will handle some of the information and you will see improvement in image quality.

You also indicate that you are using 1gb of ram. This is good, but with all the new applications, I would recommend 2gb.