Low FPS on Iris Xe

[greninja7rc]

So basically I have a HP-du3032tu which has an intel i5 11th gen,8 gigs of ram,1tb hdd 5400rpm,Iris Xe
I've been told that Irix Xe can run GTA V at 60 FPS but I can't seem to run even valorant
I get good fps but it stutters a lot
My ram usage is always high at idle(around 62%)
My gpu usage is ok
My game shows 124fps but it stutters a lot
Pls help, thanks

[GuiltySpark_]

8GB of RAM and a 5400RPM HDD are not doing you any favors. RAM usage is high as its not a lot of RAM to begin with and there is likely a lot of swapping going on which is tying up that HDD. That's going to potentially affect games and make for an overall unpleasant experience. A RAM upgrade and an SSD would go a long way towards improving things. 

[jaslion]

Most likely maxing out ram here which leads to bad performance. That coupled with only having a slow hdd is not good. As @rickeo said get more ram + a ssd and that will fix it.

[Allan B]

1 hour ago, jaslion said:

Most likely maxing out ram here which leads to bad performance. That coupled with only having a slow hdd is not good. As @rickeo said get more ram + a ssd and that will fix it.

If you are on a limited budget i would suggest doing the RAM upgrade to 16gb first.

[greninja7rc]

15 hours ago, Allan B said:

If you are on a limited budget i would suggest doing the RAM upgrade to 16gb first.

Oh okay 
thanks
But does upgrading to an SSD improve my performance?

 

[Allan B]

On 2/5/2022 at 2:16 AM, greninja7rc said:

Oh okay 
thanks
But does upgrading to an SSD improve my performance?

 

Both will help, they did a video on SSD vs HDD and gaming here: 

The biggest issue is if the game does not fit into RAM, Windows has to use the hard drive to page out memory.  This can cause really bad stutters on a 5400 rpm hard drive.  Upgrading to an SSD will improve the speed of the paging and shorten the stutters; however removing the need to page in the first place by adding more RAM is what I personally would recommend.   Ideally do both, but as i mention if you do not have the funds, doing the RAM first will improve iin game performance, do the SSD first to improve Windows boot time and game load times.    

 

 

[greninja7rc]

20 hours ago, Allan B said:

Both will help, they did a video on SSD vs HDD and gaming here: 

The biggest issue is if the game does not fit into RAM, Windows has to use the hard drive to page out memory.  This can cause really bad stutters on a 5400 rpm hard drive.  Upgrading to an SSD will improve the speed of the paging and shorten the stutters; however removing the need to page in the first place by adding more RAM is what I personally would recommend.   Ideally do both, but as i mention if you do not have the funds, doing the RAM first will improve iin game performance, do the SSD first to improve Windows boot time and game load times.    

 

 

Okay then Ill upgrade my ram first
Thanks a lot once again

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