I’ve been playing a new game (borderlands 3) that uses a lot of my hardware’s capability.
80-90% ram (16 gb ddr4) 90-100% gpu (gtx 1660 super)
I ordered more ram, but can not afford new gpu at the moment. The weird thing is I experience no issues aside from small frame drops while playing alone, but when playing with friends (cross platform if that’s relevant) I can not get a stable connection either as host myself or to their host. I play plenty of online games and have never had connection issues. Does hardware utilization potentially affect online connection? I fear it might as this is the most graphically demanding game I have played.
Any advice or insight is appreciated.
Thank you for the awesome response! I did some steps on my own to help. I found I was one release behind drivers on my cpu, Wi-Fi, and gpu. I got those updated. I went into my nvidia settings and ran a test to optimize for borderlands. Solo play is running well without any frame drops.
My memory shows as 14.3/27.4 gb while actively playing the game. Seems like ram could definitely help! I’ve already got some on the way. Ddr4 32gb (16x2) 3600 which should be here in a few days.
Hopefully all these combined changes help!
This probably is irrelevant but since I went down this rabbit hole I finally took the time to learn how to migrate my os from my hdd to my sdd. Was way in over my head but got it worked out eventually