Troubleshooting Intel(R) Upgrade

Intel(R) Upgrade

Well my older brother just when university and took my good computer with him and I remember some of the specs (sims 2 would work great on it)

3.2ghz
1gb ram
ATI radeon 9000
200gb hard drive

All i can remember, and i had alot of big games on that computer, but now im left with this peice of rubbish ...

2.39ghz
256mb ram
Intel(R) 82865G + Intel(R) Extreme Graphics 2 <--(dont see it helping -.-)
60gb hard dribe

well couple years back when i tried playing sims on this computer... it worked but graphics and lag was appauling... then after a couple of weeks my brother downloaded something (im not sure what and he forgot) but it made it run really good, it ran like it would run on my computer my brother took. Now ive been searching the past 4 days for that such update or programme but im not sure what to search and im sure it was directX 9.0c or any directx because my graphcis card isnt directx supportable.

Main reason i made this post is that if any one knows what programme will enhance my "Intel(R) 82865G" graphics performace i would really appreciate it if you told me the name of the programme and were to download it

 

thnx

ahh thnx for the info m8, well the thing is im gettin a new computer soon my old one was around 2000 pound but it was like 5 years old and was the best at that time, now im gettin a 700 pound one (the above average gaming computer with nice nvidia graphics and nice ram/ghz) well thanks for help just still wondering what my bro downloaded for graphics enhance P thanks for all the info any ways

 

he might have downloaded a little program called iaa or intel application accelerator, if your system suports it. it helps boost performance on the p4's or he might have simple updated windows or the game. he could have even uninstalled something that was hogging resources. the list is huge, but as your getting a new pc does it really matter?

 

You have smart advice but it doesn't seem to come with smartness of netiquette. Advising old threads is as dumb as it gets. If you really want to help, subscribe to the help and tech forums so that you receive email notifications of new threads. Your advise would then, at least, be up to date ... we can then begin to assess its quality. Me? I look at dates first, so your advice, thus far, is irrelevant and I haven't looked at it. It might be the purest tosh, or it might be diamond bright, but neither way matters since no-one, who cares, is going to see it as applying to them. Got it?