Help!! Can i play Games without Onboard Graphics/Graphics Card

[MitZ]

Can i play Games without Onboard Graphics/Graphics Card? When i run Counter Strike :Global Offensive it wont run, i dont know if its the Steam or because i dont have onboard graphics/gpu

[RadiatingLight]

You either have onboard graphics or a GPU, because you cant use a pc without graphics. Check your specs, see what GPU you have, and reboot. 

[soup]

If you have no Onboard graphics or a graphics card will the system even POST? You certainlly won't be able to see anything.

[MitZ]

@soup @RadiatingLight Yes it shows a POST, everything is working i dont know why it boots, but maybe i cannot play games only use facebook for a while 

[soup]

Onboard graphics ≠  graphics card(GPU)

 

On board graphics can be thought of as, part of the CPU is providing the picture (if you can see Facebook the system must be generating some kind of picture so I suggest you do have Onboard graphics [Onboard as 'in the system' not Onboard as 'on the MoBo' just before some pedant says that isn't the definition of onboard]).  Obviouslly if a seperate GPU is providing the pictures (and doing some of the work) the system can play  higher spec games at more details, or higher frame rates or even at all.   Onboard graphics are perfectly adequate for 'ffice tasks' and 'teddy bear games' but for gaming you really should have a seperate graphics card(GPU).

 

 

[DHelios]

If there's an image on your monitor, that means there's a graphics adapter somewhere in your computer. It could be on a separate add-in card, built into the motherboard or built into the CPU. But since you can see anything at all, there is one somewhere.

 

What you can and can not do with it, depends on what technologies your graphics adapter supports. Even those built into a motherboard or CPU nowadays have support for a wide range of graphics technologies. But if your system is older it may not support some technologies that newer game titles require to run at all.

 

If your graphics adapter can do everything that a game requires to run, the next question is how well it will run. Many games are very demanding, and will not run very well on built-in graphics adapters. Many more mainstream online games are designed to run on as many computers as possible and will run well even with built-in graphics. Of course things will still look prettier if you have a better graphics card.

 

Since your game doesn't even start, you may not have all required technologies. Adding a graphics card to your system may be what you need to play CS:GO.

[ApolloX75]

Likely a driver issue. Even Intel IGPUs need drivers to work and considering how well CSGO runs on even the homeliest potato I'd say drivers are the most likely culprit.

[rockon5622]

On 7/7/2016 at 3:32 AM, soup said:

Onboard graphics ≠  graphics card(GPU)

 

On board graphics can be thought of as, part of the CPU is providing the picture (if you can see Facebook the system must be generating some kind of picture so I suggest you do have Onboard graphics [Onboard as 'in the system' not Onboard as 'on the MoBo' just before some pedant says that isn't the definition of onboard]).  Obviouslly if a seperate GPU is providing the pictures (and doing some of the work) the system can play  higher spec games at more details, or higher frame rates or even at all.   Onboard graphics are perfectly adequate for 'ffice tasks' and 'teddy bear games' but for gaming you really should have a seperate graphics card(GPU).

 

 

It depends on the cpu. The latest intel graphics are actually quite good. While of course a big gpu will be better, anything under 950 is not worth.

[Tieox]

Download, install and run this :

 

https://www.piriform.com/speccy

 

Then tell us exactly what is under the menu "Graphics"