My pc says I have 16gb ram but when i monitor it, it never goes past 7gb. I have a ryzen 5 2600 so im thinking this is what is making my pc play games poorly. Any help would be appreciated. thank you.
i’m on windows 10?Any reason you are still using Windows 7? Extended support ends in 3 months, and 10 is still a free upgrade. Windows 10 is also better at utilizing your available RAM. And to answer your other question, download all drivers on that web page supporting your OS.
i got an error pop up that said "windows cannot complete the extractionFor drivers, there's 2 major and 3 not so major and a few oddballs. You'll need audio and Lan for sure, audio especially for games compatability and Lan is the network drivers. You'll also want usb, Sata, pcie as they control all of the motherboard communications with drives, gpu, cpu, ram. Any of the others are a case by case decision as some may not apply, like motherboard software suites etc
Was this a 2x8gb kit or 2 individual sticks from different packets?i bought them, they are the same kind gskill 8x2 gb 3000mhz
i think my ssdIs Windows installed on the Samsung SSD or the Western Digital?
so you think my bad fps could be that windows is installed on my hdd and not ssd? Windows may not be on my ssd but my games are.Your results above seem to think it's on the hard drive. Now, those results could be wrong, but that would make a computer feel pretty slow.
Easy way to tell - when you boot the computer, does it just take a few seconds to Windows, or does it take around a minute?
Most people, including myself, have fine results with Windows on the SSD and games on the HDD, when budget does not allow for everything to be on a large SSD.
[/ my games are on my ssd so it can’t be because of the drive right?
so how do i fix thisThe video card drivers that tell your card how to handle the data from the game will be on whatever drive the OS is on, which could be a factor.
but games on the hdd would have slow loading times. Even if i have my games on my hdd or ssd they stutter when loading inFirst make sure your important data is backed up. then you have two options:
- Clone the OS drive to the SSD, then reinstall your games on the Western Digital.
- Disconnect the Western Digitinal and re-install Windows onto the SSD. Then re-install your games on the Western Digital.
i’m just trying to figure this out it’s just frustratingThen dom't listen to me and do whatever you want