Seilore

So I've played a few skirmish games as well as two ranked MP games and I can't understand why am I so far behind everyone. The one player I played against in multiplayer tried to explain to me about tech lab but, didn't completely understand what he was saying as the game ended prior to that. I've always been playing PHC is this faction weak or slow? I start off by building the building that allows me to create military units and start pumping out 6 at a

Why does the benchmark test show my system having dx 11 when dxdiag clearly shows I have dx 12? I know the game runs much smoother prior to my upgrading to Windows 10 and getting dx 12. Maybe someone can help me out with this as I'm sure I'm just misunderstanding something. Also is there a place we can compare our benchmarks?