Top Tier PC Can't Run Low End Games

[RomanBlue]

Okay so I recently built my first PC rig, and I'll admit, even with all of the research I put into it, I still don't know much about PCs. My only problem right now is that my super powered rig is having trouble running games like Star Wars The Old Republic at Medium graphic quality levels and Space Engineers at low settings.
Here's my build:
Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
SSD: PNY CS1311 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB GAMING X Video Card

So yeah, it is close to a top of the line rig for how much a paid. So my question is, how come I can't run games that came out several years ago that my five year old laptop can run? I think it might have something to do with my GPU but I just don't understand how that could be.
All help is appreciated,
Thank You.

 

[Komayy]

1. Make sure you've got the drivers from nVidia. Download them before you do the next step.
http://www.geforce.com/drivers
After installing them, try play a few games now, is everything instantly better? If so, you're probably only going to need to do that.

2. When you turn on your computer, enter BIOS (It will tell you the key to press for a short time on start up, mash the button to enter the settings) and then look for an option to disable integrated graphics, and make sure the PC is using PCIe slot 1, which will have your GPU in it.

Hope this helped.

 

[Obakasama]

Sometimes it might be a DirectX version. Though if the PC doesn't have the correct version there's usually a pop-up which tells you.

 

[RomanBlue]

1. Make sure you've got the drivers from nVidia. Download them before you do the next step.
http://www.geforce.com/drivers
After installing them, try play a few games now, is everything instantly better? If so, you're probably only going to need to do that.

2. When you turn on your computer, enter BIOS (It will tell you the key to press for a short time on start up, mash the button to enter the settings) and then look for an option to disable integrated graphics, and make sure the PC is using PCIe slot 1, which will have your GPU in it.

Hope this helped.

Thanks that worked perfectly. It took me awhile to update the drivers because my window driver version was out of date and refused to auto-update. But after I went through a Windows auto problem solver program (or whatever they call it), I was able to update Windows, download the newest Nvidia drivers, and play my games.
Thank you!