Hello, my computer is an AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core processor 3.50 GHZ, AMD Radeon R7 250 series graphics card, 2 Seagate Barracuda hard drives with 1.61 TB of space remaining (207 GB used), 32 GB of RAM (But only 16 gb usable?), with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS.
My computer has various problems in handling program boot-ups, game start-ups, and seemingly crashes or stutters on what I feel my specs should be able to handle.
Examples:
Few minutes after booting to desktop, I click Google Chrome to open a web page, desktop freezes, Chrome window doesn't appear for around 10 seconds, all my desktop icons flash to "blank" white page icon before returning to their normal icon image.
Playing games causes lag problems, and not super intensive games either. Team Fortress 2 is a game I play A LOT, I have it installed on my computer, I click the desktop logo and my desktop freezes, I can hear audio playing, but until the game decides it's loaded properly I get this sort of limbo screen before the window maximizes to my full screen and lets me control it normally.
Fortnite also has this issue for me, although I know the game warns against problems with AMD cards and it's game, I still feel my computer should be able to handle it, with all my settings set to as LOW as possible, it still will crash to a black screen, entire computer screen goes black, comes back up, and I can still hear the audio of the game fine against my desktop, but clicking the window or trying to reopen the game in any way doesn't work, and I have to close the program and re-open.
I tried uninstalling some software, such as Audacity, and updating all of my drivers for devices... Not a single one had driver updates available except for my graphics card, which after the update made no discernible difference to me.
Malwarebytes and Windows Defender return no threats or viruses, so I don't believe it's virus-related (although I know those two programs alone aren't much in the way of detecting cataclysmic threats).
I created this post in the hopes that someone here with knowledge and experience in computers could help me in discovering this issue, this is my second build and both computers I've made from scratch have struggled with slowness and lag in performance. I'd like to know if maybe it's something I'm doing in my computer maintenance that's causing the issue, or if a part I'm using is slowing everything down. I wonder if it's my OS that's giving me problems? Someone told me Windows 7 wouldn't utilize all 32 gbs of RAM, but even then, 16 GB is nothing to sneeze at either.
Does anyone have any ideas? I'd really appreciate some insight on this. Thank you.
My computer has various problems in handling program boot-ups, game start-ups, and seemingly crashes or stutters on what I feel my specs should be able to handle.
Examples:
Few minutes after booting to desktop, I click Google Chrome to open a web page, desktop freezes, Chrome window doesn't appear for around 10 seconds, all my desktop icons flash to "blank" white page icon before returning to their normal icon image.
Playing games causes lag problems, and not super intensive games either. Team Fortress 2 is a game I play A LOT, I have it installed on my computer, I click the desktop logo and my desktop freezes, I can hear audio playing, but until the game decides it's loaded properly I get this sort of limbo screen before the window maximizes to my full screen and lets me control it normally.
Fortnite also has this issue for me, although I know the game warns against problems with AMD cards and it's game, I still feel my computer should be able to handle it, with all my settings set to as LOW as possible, it still will crash to a black screen, entire computer screen goes black, comes back up, and I can still hear the audio of the game fine against my desktop, but clicking the window or trying to reopen the game in any way doesn't work, and I have to close the program and re-open.
I tried uninstalling some software, such as Audacity, and updating all of my drivers for devices... Not a single one had driver updates available except for my graphics card, which after the update made no discernible difference to me.
Malwarebytes and Windows Defender return no threats or viruses, so I don't believe it's virus-related (although I know those two programs alone aren't much in the way of detecting cataclysmic threats).
I created this post in the hopes that someone here with knowledge and experience in computers could help me in discovering this issue, this is my second build and both computers I've made from scratch have struggled with slowness and lag in performance. I'd like to know if maybe it's something I'm doing in my computer maintenance that's causing the issue, or if a part I'm using is slowing everything down. I wonder if it's my OS that's giving me problems? Someone told me Windows 7 wouldn't utilize all 32 gbs of RAM, but even then, 16 GB is nothing to sneeze at either.
Does anyone have any ideas? I'd really appreciate some insight on this. Thank you.
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