Understanding graphics cards Kathmandu Post Nepal, July 13 -- Video game graphics have gotten more complicated over the years. Games look more and more photo-realistic these days and with added lighting, geometry and anti-aliasing techniques; these games demand a lot out of your systems. In days of yore, all the graphical elements your computer produced would be handled by the CPU itself, in what was called 'Frame Buffers', but these days, because of the complexity of modern graphics, a dedicated Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) is assigned the task of all graphical rendering o...