@Kaius :-
I tend to agree with my esteemed colleague, @Brickwizard . I think the biggest issue here is simply lack of resources for what you're wanting to do with your PC.
At the time when I maxed-out this HP Pavilion desktop rig to 32GB DDR4 RAM, that 32GB was still regarded as well OTT by most people. In the intervening years, with the advent of DDR5, and the far bigger modules it offers, you frequently see people posting about having 64GB or even 128GB. My 32 GB is now considered pretty mundane by today's standards..!
(Our very first laptop, a Dell, when we bought it back in 2001, came with the grand total of 128 MB of DDR1 RAM. And we thought that was a LOT..!)
Do bear in mind, also, that nowadays 8GB is considered the bare minimum for an acceptable experience when merely browsing, using an office suite, perhaps watching YouTube and/or listening to streaming music or editing photos. Given that some games are now being released with requirements for 120GB+ of storage, I think you'll agree that your machine is right at the very bottom end of the scale for this kinda thing.
I don't know much about Valve, Steam, etc; I'm not a 'gamer', although I DO occasionally spend the odd half-hour with indie titles like Xonotic, RedEclipse, UrbanTerror, etc. But I think it's probably fair to say that you need summat with a wee bit more grunt under the hood. Modern games are quite punishing on the hardware.
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For the sort of stuff I do, mainly chatting on forums, watching NetFlix and YouTube, the odd bit of photo-editing, my old Dell Latitude D630 with 4 GB DDR2 RAM, running a featherweight distro like Puppy Linux, will manage OK. The Pavilion desktop rig is the task-cruncher; does a lot of video-editing, and that's why the 5+ TB storage and the 32GB RAM. And the Nvidia GPU lets the Openshot video editor 'offload' work to it whenever it can......GPUs being uniquely suited to that kind of work (more so than a general-purpose CPU, for instance.)
Mike.
I tend to agree with my esteemed colleague, @Brickwizard . I think the biggest issue here is simply lack of resources for what you're wanting to do with your PC.
At the time when I maxed-out this HP Pavilion desktop rig to 32GB DDR4 RAM, that 32GB was still regarded as well OTT by most people. In the intervening years, with the advent of DDR5, and the far bigger modules it offers, you frequently see people posting about having 64GB or even 128GB. My 32 GB is now considered pretty mundane by today's standards..!
(Our very first laptop, a Dell, when we bought it back in 2001, came with the grand total of 128 MB of DDR1 RAM. And we thought that was a LOT..!)
Do bear in mind, also, that nowadays 8GB is considered the bare minimum for an acceptable experience when merely browsing, using an office suite, perhaps watching YouTube and/or listening to streaming music or editing photos. Given that some games are now being released with requirements for 120GB+ of storage, I think you'll agree that your machine is right at the very bottom end of the scale for this kinda thing.
I don't know much about Valve, Steam, etc; I'm not a 'gamer', although I DO occasionally spend the odd half-hour with indie titles like Xonotic, RedEclipse, UrbanTerror, etc. But I think it's probably fair to say that you need summat with a wee bit more grunt under the hood. Modern games are quite punishing on the hardware.
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For the sort of stuff I do, mainly chatting on forums, watching NetFlix and YouTube, the odd bit of photo-editing, my old Dell Latitude D630 with 4 GB DDR2 RAM, running a featherweight distro like Puppy Linux, will manage OK. The Pavilion desktop rig is the task-cruncher; does a lot of video-editing, and that's why the 5+ TB storage and the 32GB RAM. And the Nvidia GPU lets the Openshot video editor 'offload' work to it whenever it can......GPUs being uniquely suited to that kind of work (more so than a general-purpose CPU, for instance.)
Mike.
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