High End Computer running games worse than my budget laptop

McKendry2

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May 1, 2016
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Within the past 3 months my gaming desktop has been experiencing some major performance issues when it comes to gaming. League of Legends, Dark Souls 2 & 3, and pretty much every other game than I own, has been completely ruined by abysmal FPS drops on my desktop. Conversely, my $300, 4 year-old laptop can run many of these games perfectly fine, so long as they don't exceed the laptop's capabilities in order to run. I'm finally getting fed up with this issue and I'd like some insights into why this may be happening.

I'm not entirely sure what information might be needed for my desktop and laptop but I'd love it if someone could try to help me figure this out. I'd be happy to give any information that might be useful.

Change occurred about 3 months ago after I accidentally made the 'upgrade' from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Worst mistake ever as it ended up making my desktop completely inoperable until I managed to bring my desktop back to Windows 7 through a backup. After this point, though, my desktop simply did not perform as well as it had before.

I really have no idea what happened because it should have made a clean backup to the state before the upgrade. I've been wondering if it's a hardware issue that just coincided with the mistaken upgrade.
 
Solution


The problem is you did an upgrade installation, and you still had a bunch of garbage win7 files mucking things up.
http://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/

McKendry2

Commendable
May 1, 2016
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1,510
Desktop Specs:
Intel Core i5-4670K CPU @ 3.4GHz
16.0 GB RAM
Windows 7 / 64-bit
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750

Laptop:
Intel Core i5-3337U CPU @ 1.80GHz
6 GB RAM
Windows 7 / 64-bit
Intel HD graphics 4000
 

McKendry2

Commendable
May 1, 2016
5
0
1,510


Desktop Specs:
Intel Core i5-4670K CPU @ 3.4GHz
16.0 GB RAM
Windows 7 / 64-bit
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750

Laptop:
Intel Core i5-3337U CPU @ 1.80GHz
6 GB RAM
Windows 7 / 64-bit
Intel HD graphics 4000
 

McKendry2

Commendable
May 1, 2016
5
0
1,510


I don't want to be running Windows 10 is the problem. I'd prefer to stay on Win7 if at all possible.
I'm also not sure how I'd go about updating to Win10 without it being through the upgrade service.
 


The problem is you did an upgrade installation, and you still had a bunch of garbage win7 files mucking things up.
http://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/
 
Solution

McKendry2

Commendable
May 1, 2016
5
0
1,510


Thanks I'll have to do that when I find the time then. Busy day
Is it possible to to go back to Win7 after this install (without causing the same issue)
 


Not without doing a clean install of windows 7.