My PC sucks

[CalebCare]

Awhile back i had the "family" pc which i had no was this bad, i couldnt run any game past low settings if that, i recently bought a GTX 1050 ti which was an upgrade but im still having issues with my games crashing and my computer being on life support. I dont have the money to upgrade anymore and Ive been inspired to join the twitch community and hopefully be a streamer but my pc is nowhere close to being able to handle that. What do i do?

[You_are_a_cunt]

Get a job?

[CalebCare]

4 minutes ago, revsilverspine said:

Get a job?

where i live most of the jobs are food and cleaning and i have severe food allergies so its hard 

[General Winter]

5 minutes ago, CalebCare said:

Awhile back i had the "family" pc which i had no was this bad, i couldnt run any game past low settings if that, i recently bought a GTX 1050 ti which was an upgrade but im still having issues with my games crashing and my computer being on life support. I dont have the money to upgrade anymore and Ive been inspired to join the twitch community and hopefully be a streamer but my pc is nowhere close to being able to handle that. What do i do?

it'd be easier to understand with all the hardware listed but chances are its either your cpu is too underpowed or is dual core; or possibly windows 10 lastest update which fucked some users pretty bad, though i found a fix by disabling fullscreen optimization thorugh properties

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

3 minutes ago, CalebCare said:

where i live most of the jobs are food and cleaning and i have severe food allergies so its hard 

Little we can do here then. We're a forum and unfortunately not a charity. 

[Jasun]

You should tell us your specs and we'll see what the actual problem is...

[CalebCare]

5 minutes ago, Jasun said:

You should tell us your specs and we'll see what the actual problem is...

Processor

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz

 

Video Card

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

 

RAM

8.0 GB

 

Operating System

Microsoft Windows 10 (build 16299), 64-bit

 

[Jasun]

What games do you plan to be streaming, because you can still be able to stream but I think the better bet would be starting YouTube and recording instead of streaming cause streaming takes way too much performance. You can record your gameplay (stream if you want as well) using nVidia ShadowPlay. 

[CalebCare]

1 minute ago, Jasun said:

What games do you plan to be streaming, because you can still be able to stream but I think the better bet would be starting YouTube and recording instead of streaming cause streaming takes way too much performance. You can record your gameplay (stream if you want as well) using nVidia ShadowPlay. 

Pubg R6 siege and league of legends. but thats after i find out whats wrong with my pc

[Egg-Roll]

By any chance are you running a HDD on windows 10? That could be partially your problem, esp if you have things open in the background.

[CalebCare]

Just now, Egg-Roll said:

By any chance are you running a HDD on windows 10? That could be partially your problem, esp if you have things open in the background.

not sure

[Jasun]

Just now, CalebCare said:

Pubg R6 siege and league of legends. but thats after i find out whats wrong with my pc

eh... nothing you can do... the only option is to upgrade if you wanna stream + play games at good fps. 

[General Winter]

Just now, Jasun said:

eh... nothing you can do... the only option is to upgrade if you wanna stream + play games at good fps. 

or he can get an internal or external capture card to help with live encoding

[Jasun]

Just now, General Winter said:

or he can get an internal or external capture card to help with live encoding

I guess that's the other option... 

[Egg-Roll]

Just now, CalebCare said:

not sure

go to your "This Computer" (aka My Computer)

right click the C drive or the windows Drive (likely C), click properties

click hardware then hit Alt+printscreen

paste here (can use paint)

 

it should look like this:

 

The reason why I ask if SSD or HDD is because Windows 10 hates HDD's... add that with PUBG it could be the reason. Tho your CPU is fairly old, but should still work and is most likely a HDD issue and/or RAM issue.

[General Winter]

1 minute ago, Jasun said:

I guess that's the other option... 

i mean he just need more power to stream really, those specs should be fine for lower end gaming

 

also he should try this fix if he's having raw performance issues, i know this fix worked for me

[CalebCare]

6 minutes ago, Egg-Roll said:

go to your "This Computer" (aka My Computer)

right click the C drive or the windows Drive (likely C), click properties

click hardware then hit Alt+printscreen

paste here (can use paint)

 

it should look like this:

 

The reason why I ask if SSD or HDD is because Windows 10 hates HDD's... add that with PUBG it could be the reason. Tho your CPU is fairly old, but should still work and is most likely a HDD issue and/or RAM issue.

[CalebCare]

Just now, CalebCare said:

i dont think thats the right thing although its drive C

[Egg-Roll]

7 minutes ago, CalebCare said:

Sorry missed 2 steps.

click hardware

and select the disk drive under type.

then hit properties (again)

 

Tho I don't think you actually need too, because it would be 100% weird to have a several hundred 2TB SSD in a gen 3 i5 computer unless you did it yourself.

 

One way of combating possible issues with HDD and windows 10 is buying a second HDD dedicated for games (you don't need to redownload). Also ensure you don't have something like Chrome open when gaming due to the limited ram amount you have.

 

 

[CalebCare]

5 minutes ago, Egg-Roll said:

Sorry missed 2 steps.

click hardware

and select the disk drive under type.

then hit properties (again)

 

Tho I don't think you actually need too, because it would be 100% weird to have a several hundred 2TB SSD in a gen 3 i5 computer unless you did it yourself.

 

One way of combating possible issues with HDD and windows 10 is buying a second HDD dedicated for games (you don't need to redownload). Also ensure you don't have something like Chrome open when gaming due to the limited ram amount you have.

 

 

[Egg-Roll]

It's a 7200RPM Seagate:

https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148834

 

The drive it self is not likely the root cause of the bottleneck, it's likely a combination of games and windows 10 on the same drive, plus possibly anything running in the background.

 

I personally don't own any of the 3 games you play, so my advice is only what I know running a HDD on windows 10, I don't run any games on the C drive either. Next to trying what @General Winter has mentioned my only suggestions are if possible try running the games in safemode (it's a launch option in steam if the game has it, might need to use steam's launch options for it too), or use a secondary HDD for games in hopes it fixes the issues. It could be a laundry list of issues including drivers, so always try that route as it might fix the issues, possibly including reinstalling windows 10.