only a quarter of the screen appears when I play games

When I play the sims 2 on windows xp, you can see that a quarter of the screen and plays the game in full screen behind bars. I tried to change the resolution, but nothing works and you can not our association in the game options menu because you can not see. Please quick help

You can simply be low on memory, more power cpu as well.

for the most part, adding a graphics card to the motherboard will give the computer the extra to play games power.

If go shopping for graphics cards, make sure that you first figure out what type / style of Board slots are provided on the motherboard.

graphics cards are designed to adapt to certain locations on the motherboard.

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