Facing very weird problem

[Sumolizer]

So im grinding in Apex Legends these days and the issue im facing is that my game stutters weirdly after playing 3 matches. Like micro freezes that ruin my experience. I have a low end pc but it easily runs the game on 1080p low 60. I have been experiencing this problem since the recent patch.

i5 2400

8gb ddr3

Gtx950

Now should i upgrade my ram to 12 or buy a 128 gb ssd? Im confused. Help me out bros :D

[Helpful Tech Witch]

you dont have a ssd?

 

You need a ssd. It may or may not fix the stutters, but you will never be able to deal with a hdd again.

[Etsaduc]

Not a lot of modern day games like 8 gigs of ram, I'd strongly recommend upgrading to 12 or 16 gigs. 

[Alex Atkin UK]

10 minutes ago, Sumolizer said:

So im grinding in Apex Legends these days and the issue im facing is that my game stutters weirdly after playing 3 matches. Like micro freezes that ruin my experience. I have a low end pc but it easily runs the game on 1080p low 60. I have been experiencing this problem since the recent patch.

i5 2400

8gb ddr3

Gtx950

Now should i upgrade my ram to 12 or buy a 128 gb ssd? Im confused. Help me out bros

I'd be looking at 256 or 500GB SSDs. I don't think 128GB are good value and likely to be older models.

RAM you want to keep in equal sizes and even numbers of stick for dual-channel, but I don't think you need more RAM.

[Alex Atkin UK]

4 minutes ago, Etsaduc said:

Not a lot of modern day games like 8 gigs of ram, I'd strongly recommend upgrading to 12 or 16 gigs. 

Modern games are going to bottleneck on a quad-core CPU or the GPU long before the the RAM IMO.  It could just as easily be not enough CPU cores/threads considering six or eight cores is becoming standard now.

[Entropy.]

2 minutes ago, Etsaduc said:

Not a lot of modern day games like 8 gigs of ram, I'd strongly recommend upgrading to 12 or 16 gigs. 

Most modern games are totally fine with 8 gigs, even triple-aaa's with the settings cranked- That is, unless you have background applications open, then it all falls apart.

[Etsaduc]

hmm, all my newer games seem to take up about 9 or 10 gigs of ram. But it might be because of the 1333hz it's rated at lol.

3 minutes ago, Brok3n But who cares? said:

Most modern games are totally fine with 8 gigs, even triple-aaa's with the settings cranked- That is, unless you have background applications open, then it all falls apart.

 

[Alex Atkin UK]

26 minutes ago, Etsaduc said:

hmm, all my newer games seem to take up about 9 or 10 gigs of ram. But it might be because of the 1333hz it's rated at lol.

 

How much RAM you need is not necessarily the same as how much it will use if you have it available.  The op has a very low-end PC by todays standards, they will bottleneck everywhere else before RAM becomes a problem.

[Mark Kaine]

1 hour ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

you dont have a ssd?

 

You need a ssd. It may or may not fix the stutters, but you will never be able to deal with a hdd again.

Ssds are overrated , people just like them because they make windows boot faster basically lol...

 

 

I like my Toshiba SSHD and the X300 a lot more than my Ssds...  That's not to say Ssds can't have their use cases but you don't need them at all, especially for gaming, all they do is make loading times a bit faster ... Which is nice, but not necessary.

 

 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 hour ago, Etsaduc said:

all my newer games seem to take up about 9 or 10 gigs of ram

if you have more ram, windows will use more ram.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

27 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

Ssds are overrated , people just like them because they make windows boot faster basically lol...

 

 

I like my Toshiba SSHD and the X300 a lot more than my Ssds...  That's not to say Ssds can't have their use cases but you don't need them at all, especially for gaming, all they do is make loading times a bit faster ... Which is nice, but not necessary.

 

 

lol, thay also increase system responsivenes. When i put my ssd in my c2q q6600 on a ssd, all of a sudden I didnt need to wait 10 minutes after boot to use the pc. it just worked.

[Sumolizer]

10 hours ago, Brok3n But who cares? said:

Most modern games are totally fine with 8 gigs, even triple-aaa's with the settings cranked- That is, unless you have background applications open, then it all falls apart.

I have Discord and Steam running in background. I checked with msi afterburner and usage hovered around 7.6 gigs while playing.

10 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Modern games are going to bottleneck on a quad-core CPU or the GPU long before the the RAM IMO.  It could just as easily be not enough CPU cores/threads considering six or eight cores is becoming standard now.

It was totally fine and smooth before season 6 update. And CPU and GPU doesn't reach full usage since i have capped fps at 60.