33 PC Tips & Tweaks

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Nov 15, 2025

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33 Tweaks for Maximum PC Performance and Delay Reduction

System Foundation and Resource Management

1. Create a System Restore Point: Run the provided batch file to create a restore point.

   • Benefit: Ensures a crucial safety net, allowing users to safely revert Windows changes and rollback the optimization process if any instability occurs.

2. Optimize Windows Privacy Settings: In Settings > Privacy and Security, disable all unnecessary features across categories like General, Speech, Inking & Typing, Diagnostics and Feedback, and Activity History.

   • Benefit: Eliminates unnecessary background data collection and telemetry, reducing continuous background CPU and disk activity, thereby freeing resources for gaming.

3. Disable Game Bar: Navigate to Settings > Gaming > Game Bar and set the feature to Off.

   • Benefit: Removes the Game Bar overlay process and associated resource allocation, minimizing DirectX overhead and preventing potential FPS drops caused by background recording features.

4. Uninstall Useless Apps (Bloatware): Use a provided script and Windows settings to uninstall pre-installed Windows apps (bloatware), as well as Microsoft Edge and Cortana/Copilot.

   • Benefit: Reclaims disk space and ensures that dormant, unwanted applications are not secretly running, reducing background memory and CPU usage.

5. Disable Transparency Effects: Go to Settings > Personalization > Colors and set Transparency effects to Off.

   • Benefit: Provides a minor but noticeable reduction in GPU and RAM utilization, as the operating system no longer needs to render the complex visual effects on the UI.

6. Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling (HAGS) Test: Test this setting (in Settings > Gaming > Graphics) by playing with it enabled and disabled.

   • Benefit: While HAGS can improve performance on high-end systems, the video recommends disabling it for 90% of users to prevent VRAM scheduling conflicts and fix stutters on mid-range hardware.

7. Disable Windows Updates: Use the provided Windows Update Blocker application to permanently disable automatic updates.

   • Benefit: Crucially prevents random background disk and CPU spikes caused by Windows Update services, ensuring stable, uninterrupted performance during critical competitive gameplay.

8. Set Keyboard and Mouse Data Q Size: Run a utility to adjust the size of the system's input buffer.

   • Benefit: Lowering the input data queue size means keystrokes and mouse movements spend less time waiting in the buffer, directly contributing to reduced peripheral input latency. The ideal setting is tailored based on your CPU power.

9. Set Peripherals to 1000 Hz/2000 Hz: Configure your mouse and keyboard software to set the polling rate (refresh rate) to 1000 Hz or 2000 Hz.

   • Benefit: This ensures the peripherals report their status every 1ms or 0.5ms, guaranteeing the highest possible input report rate for the lowest end-to-end delay.

10. Disable Startup Apps (AutoRuns): Use the AutoRuns application to review and uncheck unnecessary programs set to run at PC startup.

    • Benefit: Minimizes system boot time and reduces the number of initial background processes competing for resources.

11. Set Game Mode: Set Game Mode to Enabled on Windows 11 and Disabled on Windows 10.

    • Benefit: On Windows 11, it correctly optimizes system resources for the active game; on Windows 10, disabling it avoids potential bugs and resource conflicts.

12. Disable Hardware Acceleration on Background Apps: Turn off GPU acceleration within apps like Google Chrome and Discord settings.

    • Benefit: Frees up VRAM and GPU utilization otherwise consumed by desktop applications, dedicating the graphics card's full power to the game.

13. Disable Notifications: Turn off all notifications and actions in Windows Settings.

    • Benefit: Eliminates system interrupt calls and potential disk activity associated with logging and displaying alerts, ensuring a stable foreground environment.

14. Disable Useless Animations: Adjust Windows visual effects (in Performance Options) to a Custom setting, leaving only a few essential visual elements enabled.

    • Benefit: Reduces the CPU/GPU workload required to render complex UI elements, resulting in a snappier operating system response and less CPU overhead.

15. Set Process Scheduling to Programs: In Performance Options > Advanced, prioritize Programs over "Background Services."

    • Benefit: Ensures that the operating system's kernel scheduler dedicates the primary share of CPU processing time to the active game, improving FPS stability.

16. Optimize Taskbar: Right-click the taskbar to disable widgets, news feeds, and any weather icons.

    • Benefit: Stops constant internet polling and background refreshing of the taskbar elements, saving resources and reducing potential network lag sources.

17. Disable Core Isolation (Memory Integrity): In Windows Security > Device Security > Core Isolation Details, disable Memory Integrity.

    • Benefit: Fixes a significant performance reduction caused by the security feature, which otherwise increases system overhead and decreases overall FPS output.

18. Clean Install Nvidia Driver: Use the Nvidia Clean Install tool to install a specific recommended driver version, ensuring a complete removal of old files.

    • Benefit: Eliminates corrupted or conflicting old driver files, establishing a clean driver baseline for optimal graphics processing.

19. Nvidia Driver Installation Tweaks: During the custom driver install, select advanced options to disable installer/driver telemetry, enable Message Signal Interrupts (MSI), and disable HDCP.

    • Benefit: Enabling MSI improves communication between the GPU and CPU (lowering latency), while disabling telemetry and HDCP reduces driver-level resource consumption.

20. Optimize Nvidia 3D Settings: Use a provided external profile file to automatically apply an optimized profile of Nvidia 3D settings to the Control Panel.

    • Benefit: Fine-tunes GPU rendering preferences, prioritizing performance over visual quality for maximum frame rate output.

21. Install Custom Power Plan: Import a custom high-performance power plan via the provided batch file (skip if experiencing overheating).

    • Benefit: Ensures that the CPU, GPU, and all connected devices remain in a maximum performance power state, preventing downclocking and improving response times.

22. Prevent Overheating (Physical Tweaks): Clean dust, use cooling pads, change thermal paste, and consider undervolting the CPU or underclocking the GPU/RAM in the BIOS.

    • Benefit: Reduces the risk of thermal throttling, guaranteeing that your PC's hardware can sustain peak clock speeds without performance degradation.

23. Enable XMP/DOCP in BIOS: Enter your motherboard's BIOS/UEFI and enable the XMP (Intel) or DOCP (AMD) profile for your RAM.

    • Benefit: Unlocks your RAM's full speed potential, which is crucial for maximizing CPU performance and significantly boosting minimum FPS values in games.

24. Disable Network Throttling (Script): Run a batch file to quickly apply the registry tweak.

    • Benefit: Removes artificial limits on network I/O, allowing for unrestricted network traffic and more consistent online performance.

25. Disable Nagle's Algorithm (Script): Run a batch file to quickly enable TCP No Delay via the registry.

    • Benefit: Prevents the bundling of small data packets, forcing immediate transmission to achieve the lowest possible ping and network latency.

26. Clean Temporary Device Data: Use Device Manager's file options to delete temporary device data.

    • Benefit: Clears unnecessary logs and files generated by drivers, contributing to overall system decluttering and efficiency.

27. Disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP: In your network adapter's properties (IPv4), disable NetBIOS.

    • Benefit: Streamlines network communication protocols, reducing local network overhead and enhancing overall internet connection stability.

28. Clean Temp Files (Disk Cleanup): Run Windows Disk Cleanup to remove temporary files, but specifically do not clear the DirectX Shader Cache.

    • Benefit: Frees up storage and improves system speed, while preserving the Shader Cache prevents in-game stutters that occur when the GPU has to rebuild shaders on the fly.

29. Defragment/Trim Drives: Run the "Defragment and Optimize Drives" tool to perform Trim on SSDs and defragment any traditional hard drives.

    • Benefit: Maintains the performance of SSDs (via Trim) and improves file access times on HDDs, ensuring faster game loading and data retrieval.

Application-Specific and Game Optimizations

30. Optimize Discord Settings: Disable developer mode, application test mode, streamer mode, activity privacy, and the game overlay within Discord's settings.

    • Benefit: Reduces the app's overall resource footprint and prevents the Discord Overlay from injecting code that often causes performance dips in full-screen games.

31. Optimize Fortnite Options (Epic Launcher): In the Epic Games Launcher options for Fortnite, uncheck High Resolution Textures and check Pre-download Streamed Assets.

    • Benefit: Saves significant disk space and reduces loading times by prioritizing essential game assets over unnecessary graphical quality components.

32. Optimize Fortnite Settings (In-Game): Disable all Replays, Energy Savings, and Nvidia Highlights in the game's settings.

    • Benefit: Disabling features like Replays and Highlights ensures your PC is not spending CPU/Disk cycles on background recording while you are actively playing.

33. Apply Optimized Game User Settings: Replace the game's configuration file (GameUserSettings.ini) with a provided optimized version.

    • Benefit: Applies pro-level configuration settings (e.g., custom resolutions, frame rate limits) that are often impossible to change through the standard in-game menu, locking in the maximum performance profile.