Fast new computer running slow on games.

[arkbound]

Hey, recently my father purchased a new computer and when ever I try to play games on it, it preforms very poorly. This computer should be able to run games better than my older computer, but it does not. All the parts in this machine are by far better than mine, yet it runs slow, and its new. When I set a game's graphics settings such as starcraft 2, it recomends I use low graphics and a low resolution. However on my older computer I can run that game near ultra and on a decently high res. I'm not sure what the problem is, now since i updated all the drivers for my graphics card, but it stills run very slow in games. The graphics card is a Ati radeon HD 5450. Anyone know how to fix this, or is the graphics card just not that great. Right now the desktop runs at 1920x1080.

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[alan2273]

Putting it bluntly, the graphics card is crap, it is not much better than onboard graphics.
One thing you could try is to check if you have the latest drivers for this card.

[BC_Programmer]

it is not much better than onboard graphics.

Of course it isn't, since it is on-board.

[arkbound]

yeah I thought it might be no good, better break the bad news to my dad.

[alan2273]

Of course it isn't, since it is on-board.

Considering that you can purchase a 5450 PCiE card, and the OP mentioned a graphics card in his post, how do you come to the conclusion that it was onboard graphics.

[cooktim53]

This could be due to 1 of 2 things,

Either the video card is something like 256MB and the game your wanting to play requires more, or
the CPU(Processor) cant handle the load and you need a better one.

[BC_Programmer]

Considering that you can purchase a 5450 PCiE card, and the OP mentioned a graphics card in his post, how do you come to the conclusion that it was onboard graphics.

Installed RAM 8.00GB (7.75GB Usable).