Preformance issues for the first 5 minutes of playing

[karmic yarrow]

out of curiosity, how much ram do you have? is it a model with 8gb?

you may be able to alleviate some of that load - i am assuming ram is your bottleneck on that inspiron (i have a 15 3000 myself) - by setting a pagefile (in brevity, it uses some of your hdd/ssd storage as ram) https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/how-to-manage-virtual-memory-on-windows-11

if you are using an 8gb model and you are open to trying that then i would try min 8gb max 16gb in pagefile

[modern gazelle]

I found what you were talking about but It wouldnt let me set it to anything under 16

I set it min 400 max 500 as a test Ill see how it goes

[modern gazelle]

this is what it was previously set to

[modern gazelle]

idk if this is realted by i cannot open the demo without crashing steam now

[karmic yarrow]

i mean 8-16gb (so 8192mb minimum, 16384mb maximum)

[modern gazelle]

mmmm

that could be the problem

[karmic yarrow]

it wont hurt running it that low or anything, dont worry, but if i am on a system and using a pagefile then i am throwing a nicely sized pagefile at the problem

i think i recall it not being beneficial if it is under a certain amount compared to the amount of ram you have, i simply generally have done it in similar quantities to this, though

[modern gazelle]

alr thanks

im planning on getting a new laptop for christmas so thisll be helpful till then

[karmic yarrow]

iirc im still using it on mine, id just rock it permanently tbh, it definitely will not hurt anything if you can afford to dedicate that little 8-16gb of storage to the task

i don't know how avidly you play minecraft, but assuming that you do have 8gb, then it will probably do you wonders on that