My PC is decent, but steam games run poorly

[UmagaSoySauce]

I built my pc a while back, but ever since I first used it to play games I have noticed that steam games seem to have a lot of issues running well. My friend says that my build is as good as his and if not, better. He is able to run games like Rainbow Six Siege and Fallout 4 well on medium to low quality, but when I try to do the same thing, the game runs poorly, specifically, there are issues where moving my camera around, the movements are stuttery, 60+ fps does NOT feel like 60+ fps while playing, yet my mouse cursor seems to move very smoothly. Fallout 4 runs especially poorly on my PC. I have a Ryzen 3 1200 3.1GHz processor, a GTX 1050 Ti 4GB, and Corsair Vengence LPX 2x4GB DDR4-2400 RAM. Overwatch runs way better on my PC than the other Steam games. My friend says that there are probably issues with my settings, but I don't know where to start.

[Zekiran]

Your settings for any given game is where to start, yes.

First make sure that your drivers are up to date and the right ones for your needs.

Go up to the top of the steam library window and click HELP > SYSTEM INFORMATION and post the entire list here. That will show your more full specs including driver dates for people to help you.

Also keep in mind some games don't like very large resolutions or multiple monitors, so if you're running either of those things (or somehow expecting 4k ultra on anything) it'll suffer either way.

8 gigs of ram is a little low as well and it woudln't hurt to pick up another 8. The Ryzen is pretty slow and on the lower end of "good" processors, and that's very likely where your problems are because a 4 gig 1050 is fine for those games.

[UmagaSoySauce]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Your settings for any given game is where to start, yes.

First make sure that your drivers are up to date and the right ones for your needs.

Go up to the top of the steam library window and click HELP > SYSTEM INFORMATION and post the entire list here. That will show your more full specs including driver dates for people to help you.

Also keep in mind some games don't like very large resolutions or multiple monitors, so if you're running either of those things (or somehow expecting 4k ultra on anything) it'll suffer either way.

8 gigs of ram is a little low as well and it woudln't hurt to pick up another 8. The Ryzen is pretty slow and on the lower end of "good" processors, and that's very likely where your problems are because a 4 gig 1050 is fine for those games.

Thanks, I will look into this. Do you have any suggestions for what CPU (and Mobo, if necessary) I should look to for my next upgrade?

[Muppet among Puppets]

I am not sure i see a reason for these games to run bad on that computer

[UmagaSoySauce]

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[Muppet among Puppets]

As i said, your cpu and grafic should handle siege and fallout 4.

You could try to lower resolution though. Not ultra settings

[MancSoulja]

"Desktop Resolution: 3724 x 1174"

If you're trying to play games at anywhere near that res. They're going to run at like 10fps with a 1050 Ti.

[UmagaSoySauce]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

"Desktop Resolution: 3724 x 1174"

If you're trying to play games at anywhere near that res. They're going to run at like 10fps with a 1050 Ti.

OK, I have a dual monitor set up, is that what is causing games to run at poorly? I only play the game on one screen, but is that still causing the game to run poorly?

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by UmagaSoySauce:

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

"Desktop Resolution: 3724 x 1174"

If you're trying to play games at anywhere near that res. They're going to run at like 10fps with a 1050 Ti.

OK, I have a dual monitor set up, is that what is causing games to run at poorly? I only play the game on one screen, but is that still causing the game to run poorly?

As long as you're playing at 1080p or lower it shouldn't be the issue.

Do you have both your monitors plugged into the GPU? Make sure that one isn't accidently plugged into the motherboard's IO panel.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

"Desktop Resolution: 3724 x 1174"

Missed that.

Play the game on 1600x900 as a first test.

[UmagaSoySauce]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

As i said, your cpu and grafic should handle siege and fallout 4.

You could try to lower resolution though. Not ultra settings

I am not running any games on ultra, I am running them on medium to high

[UmagaSoySauce]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Originally posted by UmagaSoySauce:

OK, I have a dual monitor set up, is that what is causing games to run at poorly? I only play the game on one screen, but is that still causing the game to run poorly?

As long as you're playing at 1080p or lower it shouldn't be the issue.

Do you have both your monitors plugged into the GPU? Make sure that one isn't accidently plugged into the motherboard's IO panel.

Yes, I had both of them pluged into the gpu, my main 144hz monitor using a DVI and my secondary monitor using HDMI. Now I'm going to try to just play with my main monitor, just by using Windows Key + P.

[ploppo]

When did you last defrag your hard drive(s)?

Some games spool data.

So degrag, if you haven't done so in a while.

[Satoru]

You don't have nearly enough RAM

you are likely swapping into oblivion with games like R6 being 64-bit and all. You really want to dump anothe r8GB in there.

[UmagaSoySauce]

Originally posted by Satoru:

You don't have nearly enough RAM

you are likely swapping into oblivion with games like R6 being 64-bit and all. You really want to dump anothe r8GB in there.

Ok, for now I'll try all these other giving solutions, but I will be looking to add more ram for my next upgrade. Thanks.

[UmagaSoySauce]

Okay, I am at a loss of what I just did; games ran only slightly smoother after I did everything in this video:

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But the big thing is: smoothness drastically improved after I turned the graphics quality up? (However, running around and looking around is kinda "stuttery" still.) But that makes no sense to me; how is increasing the graphics quality going to make the game run smoothly? Can anyone explain?