Upgraded to 16GB of ram on Mac and it's still slow!

[csmith67]

Still a little glitchy when I play games on OpenEmu. Included screen shots of activity monitor: Memory, CPU, Energy and Disk usage. Thought this might help.

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Specs:

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010)
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
16 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB

The only thing I can think of is the GPU (which can't be changed). I know upgrading to an SSD would help a lot but not sure if it'd solve this problem. It's not fluid gameplay all the time.

Thanks for reading! Hope to hear a solution.

 

[vlxedits]

Dude ( no offense ) but your mac is outdated AF. An ssd wont change much. You need a whole computer upgrade.

 

[csmith67]

@vlxedits but my specs aren't even that bad dude.

 

[vlxedits]

All im saying is that you'd be better off getting a new computer rather than trying to beef up a 5 year old macbook.

 

[csmith67]

true @vlxedits I already have a custom build.

 

[Tradesman1]

Agree, I'd be looking for a new system, not going to be able to speed that up much regardless.

 

[csmith67]

What is it that makes it slow Tradesman1? Do the parts just wear out? or is it just new technology coming out with more cores and such?

 

[Tradesman1]

Programs/games get bigger and bigger and more complex, even 5 years ago the Core 2 Duo CPUs was on the slower side, most wer moving to Quads by then. And sadly most laptops can't be OCed, you could try a fresh install of your OS which would speed things up probably, over time you get a buildup of junk files that slows thing down also, could also try defragging the drive