Display driver igfx stopped responding and has successfully recovered?Windows 7?

Whenever I play a heavy game like Resident Evil, my video card crashes and recovers.It keeps on happening until my laptops automatically shuts down.My laptop specs

Intel(R) GMA 4500MHd (4) series video card with 1gb memory.

2 GB Ram

Intel core 2 duo 2.26 processor

Windows 7 32 bit|||Check the temps - you may be running the laptop to hot.