what are the negative effects of playing games on the performance of a computer?

Question

in details can you tell me the negative effect on the general computer performance when you install and play games on a compputer

Answer 1

There are no negative effects of games on a computer.

Especcially with games, PCs must run on top performance, as normal office programs never utilize the full processing power of your PC.

However, if you run a game in the background, your Processor and graphics card will be occupied with displaying the game as fluid as possible to you, that other applications running at that time get fewer processing time.

As soon, as you close the game, the other program can run at full speed again.

Answer 2

he home video game industry is now over 30 years old. In that time, computer technology has improved at a geometric rate. A high speed elevator now has more computing power than the Apollo spacecraft that landed on the moon. The promise of computers and video games as teachers was clearly recognized in the 1980s when there was a nationwide push to get computers into the classrooms. In the years that have followed, researchers found that educational software and games can indeed have several very positive effects on children's academic skill. Over the same period, video games also moved into children's homes. (I define video games broadly here, as including arcade games, computer games, and home console games such as PlayStation.) Children began playing video games for increasing amounts of time, and the games themselves became more graphically violent over time. Parents, educators, physicians, and researchers began to question what the impact of these changes might be.

Among elementary and middle-school populations, girls play for an average of about 5.5 hours/week and boys average 13 hours/week. Playing games is not limited to adolescent boys. Recently, the Wall Street Journal reported that several companies are now designing video game consoles for preschoolers. Preschoolers aged two to five play an average of 28 minutes/day. The amount of time spent playing video games is increasing, but not at the expense of television viewing which has remained stable at about 24 hours/week.

Answer 3

basically there would not be any negative effects ....

the use of the game would be for the large extend and that might make the user to use the keyboard or the mouse harshly ..

if you are using the high performance games with large memory and high graphics, it may slow your system...

but there is no major defects ...

Answer 4

,Mainly processor heating and hard drive ware are the
worst problems, resources are devoured rapidly,
so if you don't have a lot of memory you can suffer crashes often while playing and if you store the games on your PC
they tend to eat up a lot of space although in this day and age
with massive Giga and Tera byte Hard Drives this isn't so much of a problem.

Answer 5

It will obviously use more memory (RAM)...and can slower your computer's performance if you don't have adequate RAM.