How to turn off the GPU for a game and use only CPU and RAM?

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lukelaw

lukelaw

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Okay here's the problem, I'm playing Halo 2 for Vista on my windows 7 computer (Installed fine after abit of online help)
And at this time I don't have a very powerful GPU so well playing Halo I notice it takes up 100% of my GPU and less then 50% of my CPU and RAM.
So I think it's would run faster if there was a way to use more CPU & RAM, Is there any options i could change and compatibility modes I could use?

Additional info:
If I turn settings up in the game the amount of RAM and CPU being used does not change, I just get less FPS and the game run too slow.

Specs:
AMD Athlon II 2X 250 (Overclocked too 3.6 GHz)
4GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 210
 
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lukelaw

lukelaw

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Damn that really sucks, I love to play Halo and would love even more to play it in higher settings but i'm not planing on adding to this pc as it's only til i get my new pc.
Thanks anyway for your time :)
 
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It is possible, but not advisible. Pretty much any GPU outraces any CPU in graphics processing. They have many cores and can handle more tasks at once, but have lower frequencies per-core and lack some CPU architectural features. That makes them awesome to process graphics(for which a lot of simultaneous processing is needed...that means it's better to use more cores with lower frequencies), but really bad for ordinary CPU tasks(since they need more computing power at once-that means less cores and higher frequencies per core). Your GPU probably handles 100 or more GFLOPs(1 GFLOP means 1 000 000 000 operartions per second), but your CPU probably doesn't even reach 100 GFLOPs...another way to say that GPU can do more tasks at once(but they are less advanced, so they are more useful only for graphics)...and your CPU can handle more advanced tasks and can give more processing power to a single tasks-this is why we don't use CPUs for GPU tasks and vice versa, too.
I'd say tat you probably need to buy a better GPU...but still you have to be careful not to buy a too good GPU, because then you would waste its power, if the CPU will not be good enough...YES, I AM saying that CPU still affects GPU performance...first the data is processed in CPU and then sent to GPU. So if your CPU can't send as much data at once as your GPU can handle at once, then you will be wating your GPU power.

Hope that this helped you in any way and explained why. If you didn't understand anything, ask me and I'll answer :)

 
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