What's the point of my Integrated Video Card?

Ok I got an hp pavillion dv2000 laptop for christmas, its pretty good except the video card isnt that great. I tried playing a game (Sims 2... yeah yeah, I was bored) and it was so choppy when i moved the screen, but fine when the screen wasnt in motion. (not the physical screen. Changing the view, that type of screen).



Anyway my question is, what is the point of my video card having 256 mb of video memory if it is integrated anyway so it sucks worse than my desktop's 128mb card? I've installed the chipset and video card drivers and everything but it still goes slow as hell.



Seriously, what's the point of beefing up an integrated card when it cant reach that type of potentional? are there any benefits at all?|||It probably has nothing to do with your video card. Look to see if you have enough RAM to go around. If your system is running Windows VISTA... more then likely you are short in RAM. Vista consumes acres of it for every little task.



I suggest that before you start your game shut down every other program, including your anti-virus/popups/phishing. Turn off your wireless network port, most computers have a button to turn it off with. Turn off everything in your Task Manager, then try to see how the games behaves. If it improves your problem is too little RAM, not the Video Card.|||The point? Integrated graphics chipsets save space and can use less power - ideal for laptops!|||They are there for systems OEMs who sell to businesses who don't want to install additional cards in their systems--not for gamers.|||laptops arnt made for gaming

not unless you get a mac laptop with a decent card.



the integrated graphics are to run windows visulations

im assuming you were stupid enough or your parents were to get a vista laptop.



so your graphics card i just running those pointless visulations



sell it and buy a mac.|||it definitely is the drivers issue, installed the right drivers.

256 G-Force is enough for these kind of games.



Choose Video Drivers from the site:



http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softw…