My computer's FPS drops to almost nothing when playing games, what to upgrade to fix it.

[Dwadair1337]

Looking for any info to help, or what to upgrade my amount of RAM or a new graphics card.
I'm playing a 20 year old game World of Warcraft Classic, my game runs smooth enough during most of the time. but whenever I am in a raid where there is a lot going on visually and with lots of people around me my FPS absolutely tanks to an almost unplayable level. Its super choppy and laggy and I need to fix it. first time ive posted on a forum so lets see how it goes. Im going to list my computer specs below with my motherboard / Graphics card / amount of RAM and what not to see if anyone can look at the specs and tell me what i should try upgrading first to solve the problem. My initial thought and what ive looked into doing is upgrading the amount of RAM I have from 16gb DDR to 32 gb DD4 " which is the max my motherboard holds. or upgrade my graphics card. Any info would be awesome. thank you. "Also im usually running 2 monitors at all times with the game on one monitor and whatever else on the other sometimes 2 accounts of the same game on different monitors. Also my graphics settings in game are already at the lowest setting because of this issue, thinking having low settings would have solved the problem but it doesn't change it much.


Graphics card: Radeon RX 570 Series
Motherboard: ASUS Prime A320M-K
Processor AMD Ryzen 3 3100 4-Core Processor 3.59 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

 

[mjs warlord]

i did a bit of googling and their are many variations of your card , some have 8gb video memory and some only have 4gb so that could be why you struggle with games , do you aver get any out of video ram reports on screen before a game crashes. I note you say you have problem on a busy part of a game and thats when your card will be running flat out.

 

[neogunhero]

Graphics card: Radeon RX 570 Series
Motherboard: ASUS Prime A320M-K
Processor AMD Ryzen 3 3100 4-Core Processor 3.59 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess it is your processor. 16GB DDR4 (what is the speed on your RAM?) is the standard for gaming, your GPU although a bit old can still handle games like WoW according to some video benchmarks I just watched on YouTube, so that leads me to believe it is your CPU. It is essentially AMD's most budget CPU for the Ryzen 3000 family. If you are going to spend money on anything, I would suggest upgrading to at least a Ryzen 3600, which you can get on Amazon for $90 USD, cooler included. Or, if you have a bit more to spare, I would suggest the 3700X for $120 USD as it is a lot faster and could last you longer.