Now your cheap laptop is ready to play a PC game – but is the PC game ready to be played? It may take a little bit of encouragement, if it’s a demanding game (although some, like older games or those with simplistic art styles, will be fine). If your PC game is the only thing running on your cheap laptop, you’ll have an easier time and perhaps even be able to bump up the graphics a notch as a result. That means you need to close all the windows you’ve got lurking in the background exit Chrome and the 4,000 open tabs you’ve got open ( Chrome takes up an annoying amount of RAM), slash Spotify and even it may even be worth closing down Discord or Skype.īackground tasks steal processing power, and if you’ve always got loads running it could tank your game performance. You’d be surprised how much processing power the smallest background tasks take up, so if you want to maximize how much power your gameplay is taking, you’re going to have to carry out a mass cull of everything running on your cheap laptop. Time to kill off your internet browser (Image credit: Shutterstock)