Graphics Memory?

Question

I have a new computer and just installed an older game Diablo 2 to be exact. I've ran thsi game on my laptop forever and have not had any problems with it. My new comp is core 2 duo running 1.8mhz each 250GB 1GB Mb ram running an onboard graphics card, when i get onto diablo and i try to play the game my FPS drops to around 10-20 which for a mediocre graphics game like d2 is bad. buts its bad for anygame anyways. I checked around and said im only using 9mb of 128 mb of Vram and i cant find out how to raise my Vram. Or unless Im missing somethign is there something im missing to make the gaem run faster and smoother?

my old laptop is a Celeron 1.4mhz 80gb 512mbRAm with a cruddier on board intel graphics card

Im not sure exactly how to do that i went into my BIOS and to the Video part it set at 128 it gives me an option to do maximun DVMT or 256 do i click on those or keep it on 128 since that is what my video card is?

not a problem heh i have the cash to afford a decent graphics card. Im jsut worried will most graphics cards work on my desktop. I have PCIe slots but how do i know if my Mobo/chipset/CPU will support the card i buy

Answer 1

have you set the graphics memory high in the bios, if not do it.Onboard uses shared memory, Yuk ,Buy a nice new PCI-E graphics card.

Set to maximum DVMT ,that means max shared memory.
Still lame though.

BTW Intel has a list of compatible games with their onboard graphics ,Check out the list as it shows if there are any issues or fixes

If you have a x16 pci-e slot you needn't worry about compatibility
Just make sure your Power Supply is up to the job.

How does this site work? The person who gives the best advice gets the thumbs down??

Answer 2

Cpu means NOTHING in many games, it's the video card that makes the game run or not. In order to play games, you cannot use on-board video cards, you're lucky Diablo 2 doesn't need a 3d video card. Usually 3d games do not play on on-board cards (very few games).

Answer 3

I have heard that the duo processors are no good for running games (something about they run the game off one of the processors and everything else off the other, so you get half power.) This could be your problem, but I'm not sure since I don't have one.

Answer 4

first of all, intels graphics sucks!!! i have a bfg geforce 6800 gs oc (256 mb) and it rocks it can play most of the games on high setting and i would recommend you to buy this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102022

Answer 5

You have integrated graphics , forget about it, buy a new video card.