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Hi all,
First post but hoping to get more involved in PC gaming.
I was wondering how the age of a system can affect performance? Basically I've got an old Lenovo Z50-75 and I want to play early Xbox 360 era games on the go (Assassin's Creed, Farcry 2, Mercenaries 2).
On paper it's more than enough - 1GB dedicated GPU, 16GB DDR3, SSD, AMD FX-7500 with Windows 10 64bit. But with certain games like Saints Row 2 and Mercenaries 2 the frame rate stutters sporadically during gameplay, especially when the I move the camera quickly.
Is the age of my system the issue? Is it something like GPUs or CPUs degrade as they age? Is the later version of Windows choking my system resource? Or are there some settings I can adjust to get things working??
Final note - good graphics are great, but smooth frame rate is way more important to me.
First post but hoping to get more involved in PC gaming.
I was wondering how the age of a system can affect performance? Basically I've got an old Lenovo Z50-75 and I want to play early Xbox 360 era games on the go (Assassin's Creed, Farcry 2, Mercenaries 2).
On paper it's more than enough - 1GB dedicated GPU, 16GB DDR3, SSD, AMD FX-7500 with Windows 10 64bit. But with certain games like Saints Row 2 and Mercenaries 2 the frame rate stutters sporadically during gameplay, especially when the I move the camera quickly.
Is the age of my system the issue? Is it something like GPUs or CPUs degrade as they age? Is the later version of Windows choking my system resource? Or are there some settings I can adjust to get things working??
Final note - good graphics are great, but smooth frame rate is way more important to me.