Laptop performance boost

gash2024 · 10 Feb 2021 at 14:30

ive purchased a HP Pavilion Gaming 15-ec1001na laptop recently and for the money its a great little machine but im struggling to play post scriptum with a decent frame rate that doesnt look "rough".
Ive had a play around with the graphic and Nvidia settings and all of the drivers are up to date so im thinking of doubling up the RAM to smooth things out.
Is this the best way forward?

gash2024 · 10 Feb 2021 at 14:37

It has 8GB which isnt huge in my opinion.
I shall have to check the RAM usage in game to see if its maxing out.

gash2024 · 11 Feb 2021 at 12:24

The CPU is around 50/60%, the GPU is 100% and the RAM is around 90/95%.
Ive downloaded razer cortex which has made a noticable difference after it freed up about 1.3GB of RAM.

gash2024 · 11 Feb 2021 at 15:16

Its a ryzen 5 4600h
I have vram set to 12000 and i got a system low memory earlier, i found that a bit odd.
CPU Z says the module sizes are 4 GB

gash2024 · 13 Feb 2021 at 15:11

Ive had a look at the memory sector and im won't lie i have no idea which memory is suited to this laptop as ive always had desktops before.
Can anyone point me towards a suitable stick of 16GB RAM that will suit this laptop, im not looking to spend a large amount so somewhere around £100 or less would be great.
Thanks

gash2024 · 13 Feb 2021 at 15:47

Thanks for the help guys, i'll have a look around.