Question about performance

[YesimethanYT]

I recently built a pc (today) and when i let my little brother play fortnite on all max settings it was lagging bad when i moved the mouse around. The cpu is a ryzen 5 2600x (stock cooler) and rx 590, and online people were running fortnite with the 590 max with 80-90 fps. I do have 8 gb ram though. please someone let me know if they can help or know whats wrong.

[Jurrunio]

single stick or two sticks of RAM? Frequency?

[wasab]

Does your pc have RGB? 

[TOdom]

Make sure you have all the latest drivers for your graphics card and chipset. Make sure your display is plugged into the graphics card and not the motherboard. On 8GB Ram, make sure all other applications are closed before launching your game. I'm pretty sure that ryzen cooler has a pre applied thermal pad, but just in case I would run a CPU stress test while monitoring your CPU temps to make sure you aren't throttling (anything over 80 degrees Celsius is critical, you can monitor your CPU temps by downloading Core Temp). A quick way to check if your RAM is getting throttled is to open Task Manager, play Fortnite for a few minutes, then tab out to task manager and see if your RAM utilization is high. 

[YesimethanYT]

4 hours ago, TOdom said:

Make sure you have all the latest drivers for your graphics card and chipset. Make sure your display is plugged into the graphics card and not the motherboard. On 8GB Ram, make sure all other applications are closed before launching your game. I'm pretty sure that ryzen cooler has a pre applied thermal pad, but just in case I would run a CPU stress test while monitoring your CPU temps to make sure you aren't throttling (anything over 80 degrees Celsius is critical, you can monitor your CPU temps by downloading Core Temp). A quick way to check if your RAM is getting throttled is to open Task Manager, play Fortnite for a few minutes, then tab out to task manager and see if your RAM utilization is high. 

sorry for late response i clean restarted my pc and when playing games the ram goes to 90-98 percent will that cause slow problems in game and effect fps possibly?

[YesimethanYT]

5 hours ago, wasab said:

Does your pc have RGB? 

yes

[YesimethanYT]

5 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

single stick or two sticks of RAM? Frequency?

2 sticks at 2400mhz and if you want to look for more info this is the amazon link

 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0196AWLGK?pf_rd_p=ab873d20-a0ca-439b-ac45-cd78f07a84d8&pf_rd_r=4NTE84K1YB5CXF80MRKN

[Mark Kaine]

3 hours ago, YesimethanYT said:

sorry for late response i clean restarted my pc and when playing games the ram goes to 90-98 percent will that cause slow problems in game and effect fps possibly?

I don't play this game but something seems wrong with your settings... 

 

Try reducing some like textures / resolution that use a lot of RAM.  Because yes, of course,  that alone will impact performance. 

 

 

Also what's your RAM speed rated at?   Not the default settings,  but what is it actually advertised at? 

[Jurrunio]

7 hours ago, YesimethanYT said:

2 sticks at 2400mhz and if you want to look for more info this is the amazon link

 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0196AWLGK?pf_rd_p=ab873d20-a0ca-439b-ac45-cd78f07a84d8&pf_rd_r=4NTE84K1YB5CXF80MRKN

check the RAM usage in game then, sounds like you're topping it.