Why don't my games run smoothly? [SPECS INCLUDED]

[Tlowrey]

Please let me know if I am leaving out any vital information regarding my PC specifications and what it is as I am new to this,

Operating System: Windows 8.1 64-bit
Processor: AMD A10-6800K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, 4100 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s), Richland 32nm Technology
RAM: 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz
System Type: 64-bit
Graphics: HP S2031 (1600x900@60Hz)
PlanarPL1910M (1280x1024@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (PNY)
Motherboard Make/Model: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. A88X-PRO (FM2+ )

I have good internet, good everything (or so I thought).

Current problems:

- When gaming my GPU seems to do fine but my CPU is always much lower (which I don't understand because I thought my CPU was pretty expensive)
- CPU temperature currently running at above 60 °C with just this tab open as well as the program I am using to get all of my spec information
- Have not been able to update any drivers for the past 5 months (I know this is bad, but even before this most of my games were still running crappy) due to every time I try to open up Geforce Experience to update my drivers it says it is offline and so it won't let me do any updating.
- PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEAAASSEE, if you suggest upgrading certain specifications, leave suggestions as to what I should upgrade to in each category. Many people tell me to upgrade to Intel but I have no clue where to start! I'm kind of on a low budget right now(100-200 for Motherboard and CPU individually).

 

[Barty1884]

What do you mean your GPU is fine by the CPU much lower? In terms of usage? I would expect that to be the other way around.

An A10 + 760 is very much near 'entry level' these days, but should be reasonably capable for most titles at that resolution. The biggest benefit of the A10s are in integrated GPU, it's not too too strong of a cpu in its own right.

What specific titles are you playing? Any specifically what problems are you encountering?

Is this a pre-built? Where did your OS come from ?

 

[Tlowrey]

I acknowledge your message. I'll reply to it in a few minutes after I look some stuff up.

 

[Tlowrey]

What do you mean your GPU is fine by the CPU much lower? In terms of usage? I would expect that to be the other way around. - I might be wrong about this actually. I only brought this up because of something I experienced in the past.

An A10 + 760 is very much near 'entry level' these days, but should be reasonably capable for most titles at that resolution. The biggest benefit of the A10s are in integrated GPU, it's not too too strong of a cpu in its own right.

What specific titles are you playing? Any specifically what problems are you encountering? - Planetside 2 (In high populated areas/big gun fights, I lag a lot), H1Z1 (just pure lag pretty much anywhere I go even though it's ran on the lowest graphics), Dead by Daylight (can't play the killer because of the FOV being first person and it makes it too graphically intensive I guess)

Is this a pre-built? Where did your OS come from ? - The OS came from another computer. I was sharing it for a while and now there's a pop up that always tells me to activate a new windows key because the platform is already being used on another PC. Also yes pre-built.

TO ADD: The thing is, I was talking to a friend of mine where we had really really similar specs and yet he ran everything 100x better than me and the only difference was that I had 8GB of RAM and he had 16GB of RAM.

 

[pkmanss]

Your processor is a pretty entry-level, so I am going to guess that is your bottleneck. Secondly, the clock-speed on your RAM is a bit low, but since you have 8gb, that is sufficient for most games. What makes a big difference here is....what games are you playing?

to find your computer's bottleneck turn the graphics all the way down on a game and note the frame rate for a moment. Then increase the graphics settings, if the FPS drops, your graphics card is holding it back, if the FPS do not drop further, the processor is the bottleneck. do this incrementally, and note where you run into the wall.