Will Increasing My Ram Increase My Gaming Performance

Would increasing the RAM improve the gaming performance on my laptop?

Absolutely not!As the bottleneck here is not the RAM, its the Graphics card which is Intel Integrated Graphics - HD 5500 which is not at all designed for Gaming.Well the least you could do is to lower the graphics settings of the Game you are playing as in laptops you cannot even upgrade the Graphics Card.

Will having more RAM improve the gaming performance of average computers?

Yes it will, to a point. The main limit on how much adding RAM can improve your performance is your CPU. Your CPU can only feed so much information to your RAM at a time, and if you keep upgrading your RAM without upgrading the CPU, then it’ll be the bottleneck in your system. The other limiting factor will be your graphics card. Your graphics card is used by games for math-heavy rendering, usually for fine details of a few things rather than rough details of many things. If you have no graphics card installed, your system uses what is called “integrated graphics”, where it cordons off a section of your RAM, and combines it with the integrated graphics chip in your CPU to form a rudimentary graphics card. This can be functional at best, and extremely glitchy at worst. You’ll want to get a good graphics card as well, perhaps even more so than upgrading your RAM in many situations. It really depends on the game, how the game is programmed, and the general mechanics.Examples:Minecraft Java Edition: CPU bottlenecking is a major problem because it’s only allowed to use 1 core of your CPU, and there’s not really anything you can do about that. Possessing and allocating more RAM is a very effective solution, as Minecraft is programmed to make use of it since it’s the easiest to do with Java. Minecraft makes little to no use of your graphics card.Totally Accurate Battle Simulator: Renders lots of low-detail items at once, such as your entire army and the rudimentary AI. More RAM helps a fair amount, but when you get to levels of filling the field with insane amounts of peasants, it all comes down to your CPU.Rainbow Six Siege: Mid to high grade CPU required, but bottlenecking isn’t really a problem unless you have lots of RAM and a bad CPU. Has detailed and realistic rendering, especially with map destruction. GPU heavy for sure, and past having around 12 or 16 GB of RAM, you won’t be helping your performance without upgrading your GPU.

Will upgrading laptop RAM will improve any gaming performance? Because RAM is the only option in laptops.

I think these guys didn’t even read the additional info you wrote…Let’s start with the next links:Intel® Pentium® Processor N3530 (2M Cache, up to 2.58 GHz) Product SpecificationsIntel HD Graphics (Bay Trail)The first one, is the official information that Intel provide about your CPU, and I have good news: your CPU supports dual channel.Dual Channel is the only way to improve your performance via upgrading your RAM. But, keep in mind, that your laptop must have the second slot to plug your other RAM module; otherwise, you will lose your money and will silently cry some minutes (It happened to me).Therefore, first, check if your laptop supports a second module, and then, buy the same module (if possible) or a module with the same frequency, voltage and/or latencies (the more similarities between them, the merrier).If you want to avoid any implications or possible damage, you can buy RAM modules sold in pairs, but it depends of your budget.Regarding the capacity, anything over 6 GB is an overkill, because your computer is a pretty low-end one, and it wont be able to handle a lot of things running at the same time, even with a myriad of available RAM.I’m assuming you use a modern OS (either Windows 8, 8.1 or 10), so, you will feel a huge improvement in your general experience, even if your lap do not have a second slot (the mere OS is probably using almost all the RAM, thus, tasks like web browsing are producing subpar results, because they are RAM-starved).The second link provided is a list of real-life performance of your CPU+iGPU, just as a reference to have at hand when you decide to play a game (the list is not exhaustive at all, but it may help).Sorry for the long answer… I tried to be as succinct as possible, but everything written here was necessary.Happy gaming :)

For increasing game performance, should I upgrade to additional ram or should I add a SSD and then run the game on it?

It depends and it’s never a simple answer.Generally; If you’ve got enough RAM for a game adding more shouldn’t help. I’d upgrade to at least 8 or 16 GB to be sure you’re equipped for most games. SSD mostly helps with loading times, so you shouldn’t really get much of a bump there except for that.More specifically… Adding more of either or both of these things does help performance, pending the game, although only if your CPU and GPU are ready to play ball. An SSD as opposed to an HDD can help decrease lag spikes and increase performance in any situation where the game has to read information off the drive, mainly open world games or games with large areas.More RAM should do the same thing for games that have a 64 bit engine.Conventional knowledge is that SSDs only help with loading times, but that’s forgetting that most games have “loading” times during playtime now with large worlds, and an SSD can decrease stutter and improve smoothness. RAM definitely can give you a boost in FPS too if you don’t have enough already.Without knowing your situation… I’d blindly guess more RAM is more important than an SSD.