There may be separate issues such as viruses or crashes unrelated to these three components (processor, RAM or graphics card), it doesn’t always have to be the fault of one of them, however, these are the main 3 that will make a program or video game work better or worse.
RAM, processor or graphics card?
When buying a new PC we should always try to make sure that these 3 components are related. It is absurd to have an i3 processor with integrated graphics and add 32 GB of RAM, it will not be of much use, at least on a general level, without going into specific processes or programs.
That is why when a game does not work well it is normal that the failure is general and that we are at the limit of the requirements, but otherwise we will check how to determine what the problem is. … component that produces it for us.
The easiest way would be to access our equipment, our information and check what components we have. We have installed, connected to the Steam web, the manufacturer of the game, or including the physical case, if the tenemos, and we see that our piden, if for example the requirements its 16 GB of RAM and tenemos 8… pues ya bemos un weakness. It’s the most normal thing, right? However, there is a more effective way for me.
This would involve visualizing the consumption of each component in real time, whether you have Windows or a Mac. To do this, while the game is running, and at the moment we see that it is not working very well, open, in case of the Windowshe Task Manager and go to the second tab, called performance. Here we can see both the pattern of our components, as well as the percentage used at each moment, with a time graph.
Just observe if one of them is close or at 100%, which will indicate that it is using all its power and, therefore, is falling short. It could be just one of them, or even all of them. This will be the time when we can think about buying a better CPU, RAM or GPU.
In case of Macwhich is less designed for gaming, and therefore more likely to happen to us, will work the same way, only on MacOS it’s called “activity monitor“, this is the word that we will have to look for in the magnifying glass of our computer to access it and see the same information that we will have in Windows.
Therefore, you just have to do some testing and see which of the components gets hot when using a high-performance game or program. You may need to change it if you want to keep your computer running for a while.
