Computer slow when playing games?

Copper

Copper

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Hi, so I've built a new tower system, and it works fine, youtube, Netflix, everything works, aside for games.
whenever I've played any game, the framerate drops massively, to the point that it looks like a PowerPoint slide show more than anything else. I believe its a CPU issue, as I've tested the internet speed, coming out at 36 Mbps download and 9 Mbps upload, and when looking at power usage, the game I play, (EtG), uses up 70% of the CPU power, whilst if I play on my laptop it uses around 13-15%.
https://imgur.com/gallery/oI976Gi
there is the part list for my tower, I just want to check to make sure it is a CPU problem before I try and fix anything.
 
Have you tried using software to monitor the CPU temperature? That would be where I would start as it could possibly be thermal throttling

Edit: also it depends on what settings you’re using, are you using the same settings on both your desktop and laptop? If your settings are lower on the laptop then that will explain the lower CPU usage for that
 
no I've not checked the CPU temperature, ill try that now. I do know that the settings are the exact same for laptop and computer.
 
Copper said:
Hi, so I've built a new tower system, and it works fine, youtube, Netflix, everything works, aside for games.
whenever I've played any game, the framerate drops massively, to the point that it looks like a PowerPoint slide show more than anything else. I believe its a CPU issue, as I've tested the internet speed, coming out at 36 Mbps download and 9 Mbps upload, and when looking at power usage, the game I play, (EtG), uses up 70% of the CPU power, whilst if I play on my laptop it uses around 13-15%.
https://imgur.com/gallery/oI976Gi
there is the part list for my tower, I just want to check to make sure it is a CPU problem before I try and fix anything.
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Have you installed all the chipset/Gpu drivers?

If you open resource monitor it should show what's eating up the CPU.
 
Copper said:
no I've not checked the CPU temperature, ill try that now. I do know that the settings are the exact same for laptop and computer.
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I'd recommend either AMD Ryzen Master or HWinfo for monitoring temps on Ryzen 3000 series. It could well be the case of the CPU thermal throttling, but it's definitely where I would start.

As Joxeon suggested too, you can double check task manager while a game is running and sort by CPU usage to see if anything else is also eating up resources.
 
not sure of the exact FPS but i would assume around 10 fps. looked more like a slideshow than a game. perfectly fine everywhere else. Tried the Ryzen master, temps went up from 55 degrees, (no game, 10 tabs or so) to 80 degrees (just game no tabs), out of a max of 95 degrees. here's the specs when running EtG.
https://imgur.com/a/9FWUs5d
 
If it's just that one game that's causing the issues then it's most likely not a hardware issue and probably something related to the game itself.
 
Have you tried running a stress test? Fumark or similar?

You can then monitor GPU and CPU useage at the same time.
 
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