Steam is very laggy

[Potato builder]

I have just got a very cheap build it cost £114 alltogether it features a core 2 duo 2.66ghz 4gb of ram and I bought a nvidia gt 730 but it can't even run steam without lagging is this normal?

 

[inneruniverse]

You only have 4 GB of RAM. CTRL+ALT+DELETE and look at your RAM useage in task manager. If you're at or very close to your 4 GB limit, sort your applications by RAM useage. See what is taking up all your memory useage. Try and close a few non-critical items so that you're using closer to 3.5 or 3GB.

When you say steam is laggy, do you mean your games while you are playing, or navigating the steam client itself? Also are you only using steam when this happens, or do you have a browser open and other programs such as discord or skype?

 

[Potato builder]

You only have 4 GB of RAM. CTRL+ALT+DELETE and look at your RAM useage in task manager. If you're at or very close to your 4 GB limit, sort your applications by RAM useage. See what is taking up all your memory useage. Try and close a few non-critical items so that you're using closer to 3.5 or 3GB.

When you say steam is laggy, do you mean your games while you are playing, or navigating the steam client itself? Also are you only using steam when this happens, or do you have a browser open and other programs such as discord or skype?

I am only using steam and and it is the steam client when I hold ctrl alt delete nothing happens

 

[inneruniverse]

You only have 4 GB of RAM. CTRL+ALT+DELETE and look at your RAM useage in task manager. If you're at or very close to your 4 GB limit, sort your applications by RAM useage. See what is taking up all your memory useage. Try and close a few non-critical items so that you're using closer to 3.5 or 3GB.

When you say steam is laggy, do you mean your games while you are playing, or navigating the steam client itself? Also are you only using steam when this happens, or do you have a browser open and other programs such as discord or skype?

I am only using steam and and it is the steam client when I hold ctrl alt delete nothing happens

What operating system are you using?

 

[Potato builder]

You only have 4 GB of RAM. CTRL+ALT+DELETE and look at your RAM useage in task manager. If you're at or very close to your 4 GB limit, sort your applications by RAM useage. See what is taking up all your memory useage. Try and close a few non-critical items so that you're using closer to 3.5 or 3GB.

When you say steam is laggy, do you mean your games while you are playing, or navigating the steam client itself? Also are you only using steam when this happens, or do you have a browser open and other programs such as discord or skype?

I am only using steam and and it is the steam client when I hold ctrl alt delete nothing happens

What operating system are you using?

Windows 10

 

[inneruniverse]

If CTRL+ALT+DELETE isn't working then try one of these methods to open task manager: http://www.isunshare.com/windows-10/9-ways-to-open-task-manager-in-windows-10.html

One there check the performance tab, look at CPU and Memory useage while you are browsing steam. Pay attention to those two components when the lagging occurs.

 

[Potato builder]

If CTRL+ALT+DELETE isn't working then try one of these methods to open task manager: http://www.isunshare.com/windows-10/9-ways-to-open-task-manager-in-windows-10.html

One there check the performance tab, look at CPU and Memory useage while you are browsing steam. Pay attention to those two components when the lagging occurs.

My ram is at 133 MHz and is using 1.3gb and the lagging is constant my disk keeps going from about 8% to 100

 

[inneruniverse]

Hmm. Try turning off DirectWrite under the settings>interface tab. Also try this: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3134-TIAL-4638

"my disk keeps going from about 8% to 100"

Is steam downloading anything? Or is Windows 10 downloading and installing updates perhaps? Disk useage shouldn't be going to 100% if you're just browsing steam.

 

[Potato builder]

Hmm. Try turning off DirectWrite under the settings>interface tab. Also try this: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3134-TIAL-4638

I'm really sorry for wasting your time and I should of done this earlier but I restarted and now it's a lot better however we have another problem, my internet is running at about 9 fu**ing bytes to 2kb/s :/

 

[inneruniverse]

Hmm. Try turning off DirectWrite under the settings>interface tab. Also try this: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3134-TIAL-4638

I'm really sorry for wasting your time and I should of done this earlier but I restarted and now it's a lot better however we have another problem, my internet is running at about 9 fu**ing bytes to 2kb/s :/

In the downloads tab check what server your downloading from. Make sure it is something close by.