I need help to stop lag in gaming | Help me?

[afatpigeon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmfHU8pjH0A&feature=youtu.be
The link above shows my awful PC ratings and the things I have already done to try and eliminate the lag, which have failed thus far.
Any help is thoroughly appreciated, and if this goes well I will be mor ethan happy to tell my friend to come here as well.
Thanks PC guys.

 

[ArmyVet88]

Whats your Graphics card at.

 

[afatpigeon]

It's a AMD Radeon HA 7340 Graphics Card btw guys, and what d'you mean? I'm n computer expert hens I'm on this part of the site.

 

[ArmyVet88]

From my quick research i have found that thats a laptop, if it is that it your problem. Its an integrated graphics card (Meaning you can not upgrade it without getting a new motherboard). My best bet would be for you to save up and build a Desktop PC yourself. Gaming is not made for an integrated graphics card unless you bought a "gaming laptop"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do4wiHU5CnY

 

[ArmyVet88]

Basically your graphics card shares your computer memory. Instead of you having a graphics card with 1,2gb dedicated memory. Your graphics card is pulling memory off of your motherboard. Your computer is constantly using memory from your motherboard so in theory if you are gaming your computer and graphics card are using alot of your memory and that could be where your lag is coming from.

 

[afatpigeon]

Well, is there a way to prevent this as it's not all games that lag, see, Fallout 3 can run fine with about 30 fps. LOTR Online easy 45 fps, San Andreas 45 fps, Garys Mod 50 fps, Skyrim 30 fps, Total Wars 30 fps, Civ V 32 fps. So, I think there should be a way around it, it mostly happens for SWTOR, SWTOR and LOTR are alike in many ways. And if I run LOTR at 40+ fps surely I should beable to get SWTOR at atleast 25+.
Also, It ony lags when I enter places like Courescant and Tython Jedi Temple. The thing is, theres never any lag when theres hardly any online players around. And I think this is why LOTR runs well as it's HUGE and has a small playerbase.A
Again, any help is welcomed and appreciated.

 

[afatpigeon]

But, I'm not going to lie I've had to go into some of the games folders and tweak the files to reduce graphics and increase peformance. But still, it runs fine on very low - high graphics.

 

[ArmyVet88]

Yea i play WoW on a laptop and i know exactly what you are talking about. Thats why i just built my first gaming desktop. They more stuff going around you in MMO's the worse you'll be. There is no way around it. You cant add RAM (Memory) to an integrated. Best of luck man. Only way around it would be to buy a gaming laptop so you can upgrade it when need be or to build or buy a desktop gaming PC. Hope this helped sorry i couldnt give you the answer you wanted.

 

[Torn Mind]

Your PC is of the Brazos 2.0 platform, intended for multimedia playback, extremely light gaming, and low power consumption. These are so-called APUs(accelerated processing units) in which the CPU is combined with a GPU(graphics processing unit).

The CPU's power is weak sauce, slightly surpassing some Pentium 4s and of course, the crappier Intel Atoms.

The GPU is more powerful than Intel's HD 1000, I believe, but that just means you can game on the 7310 integrated graphics while can't game at all on HD 1000 graphics.

Most likely, the CPU is bottlenecking the GPU, although you'll have to use Task Manager to confirm this. If while you are gaming the CPU is right around 100% usage, you have a bottleneck. It basically isn't performing its calculations faster enough and the GPU is waiting.



I believe it is an opportune time to introduce you to graphics card nomenclature for your future reference when you are on the market for another gaming solution.

http://www.videocardcomparisons.com/reviews/ati-radeon-naming-scheme-explained/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce#Nomenclature

For finding performance data, you look for reviews and benchmarks. Google is your friend. Anandtech is one such review site. Others include legitreviews, bit-tech.net, xbitlabs, etc.

One caveat when looking at graphics card benchmarks is that the video card drivers might be updated in the future, and that can affect the performance of the card.