How To Configure Windows 11 For Gaming

Today I'm going to show you how I configure a gaming system running Windows 11. There's lots of tweaks that can be made to Windows 11 that make games run much better. I'm going to cover not only settings that make games run better but also settings that make gaming more enjoyable in Windows 11.
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[@OllieEatsBrains]

I appreciate that you stop after every step to explain WHY you make changes. Not only does it help me understand what I'm doing, it gives me extra time to complete the task so I don't have to constantly pause the video to catch up. Great video, very helpful. Thank you!

[@deanhogbin7798]

wow these steps really helped my fps count was playing a plagues tale the first one yesterday and my frame rate kept dipping below 60fps now with all your settings tweaks i'm getting 70-90fps well chuffed thanks dude

[@pratik3162]

Did it really work?

[@dumwee]

@@pratik3162depends on systems, with low specced pc you can get pretty good boost.

[@Methodical2]

@@pratik3162 I saw increased FPS in a game.

[@alifmahmud8738]

Whats the temp status?

[@deanhogbin7798]

@@alifmahmud8738 got a different laptop now but didnt have any temp issues that i recall when i did this guide got a more powerful laptop now so i dont need these opitisations anymore

[@Chilledoutredhead]

great video, and great that you explained what a lot of the features do. too many just blindly follow along to these types of videos and can end up breaking their OS, so its nice when an explanation comes with the tweak :)

[@wolfstorm5394]

Sure but most of these tips like many similar videos out there don't really do anything for any perceivable performance increases besides just overclocking

[@angvil]

your videos are very helpful but timestamps would be just perfect for people to find the exact part they need and its good for SEO google searches if named properly

[@USclasSICK]

Thank you for your content. Im 34 years old, and I just bought my first PC since being a kid, and you have helped me so much. I got an i7 13700k with a rtx 4090, so you can see that for me. It's a steep learning curve, but you've definitely been a big help. Thanks

[@MisterJohnxD]

I hope your GPU doesn’t get bottlenecked

[@USclasSICK]

@@MisterJohnxD why would that happen? I haven't OC anything. I only fixed the resolution to match the monitor

[@wolniacha_tv]

@@USclasSICKit means that your gpu is capable of running more frames than cpu can handle. Just launch some old game in 720p and then 1080p and you will perfectly see that it has the same number of frames. Also I would strongly advise you to check in bios whether you have your xmp profile turned on 😊

[@Dibbs.]

get an i9, 4090 is too beefy for i7.

[@wolniacha_tv]

@@Dibbs. nice buzzwords, now Please elaborate

[@Grimalken1969]

I thought I'd done all of this type of stuff already, the first five minutes was all things I hadn't done and I really needed to do. Thanks.

[@StonedSolid]

Thanks for this man. I love that you include explanations each and every tweak, excellent video.

[@nitroxide17]

This is gold. Another setting that I heard improves performance is Setings->Privacy& Security -> Device encryption -> Device encryption to OFF.

[@KarthikKamarajugadda-e3h]

LOL...

[@dantecruzz]

Playing FIFA 23 on pc and i started realizing glitches and bugs but after turning off "Game Mode" everything became stable once again

[@b9bot148]

Yea, I would like to see a video about game mode and if it actually does anything to help games run better.

[@CyberCPU]

It's coming soon.

[@filipack]

Game mode make sense only if you are using Ryzen 9 7900X3D or 7950X3D. Why? Because 7900 & 7950 X3D version has two chiplets and only one of them has 3D V-cache. So AMD somehow using this "game mode" to identify you are starting to play any game and "park" those cores which are on the other chiplet without 3D V-Cache. For that reason 7800x3d reach better performance. 7800x3d has only one chiplet so system using it on full performance. Please dont be afraid of buying Ryzen 9 7000x3d versions tho... only install drivers from AMD and make sure you are using game mode in windows. This way you will get full performance of 3D cache ;) Small "Hack": If you want to test it open Resource Monitor, in CPU tab see when you run a game if your cores 16 up to 31 have been parked. You can even rename for example Cinebench.exe to aagame.exe, run cinebench and see if it parks cores (16-31). GL

[@SniperWolf2024]

1-2 FPS boost. If you do all the tweaks in the book you gain about 10-16 FPS if you do it right. You should get more hits. Smoothest game play ultra low latency

[@ArM4ND01]

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!, for creating this video. I'm now subscribed, it's now bookmarked, and I will use it whenever I have to reimage my computer.(It's my OCD)

[@quintit]

First, look into Windows server, ltsc, tiny10 or atlas OS. If youre not up to a reinstall, look into a setting in edge. Under "system and performance", turn off "startup boost" and "Continue running background extensions and apps when Microsoft Edge is closed". This has been on by default whenever I install windows and seems to be the reason you'll notice 3 edge services always running when youve literally never opened edge in your life.

[@bardockshiny]

or uinstall edge with some force uinstall tool, works better, just remember to do it again after every windows update

[@alexxmigss]

Just followed your advice! Seems a lot like Chrome. Disabled!

[@quintit]

yea lol, im using Atlas OS now, which completely nukes 99% of the additional windows bullshit, ie auto updates/store/edge. It also disables those system sounds that blow out your headphones. I've also switched to linux by now on my main rig as well. For now I still have windows running until I have absolutely everything backed up and set up.@@bardockshiny

[@НААТ]

Tiny11 is much better

[@quintit]

@@НААТ I'm using windows ltsc now, thanks for that recommendation tho, never heard of ot

[@yggdrasil1706]

FPS Gamers should also Disable Enhance pointer precision. Windows by default turns that on.

[@banjomir519]

Why?

[@SniperWolf2024]

Yes all gamers. But 90% don’t know this simple tweak. But the best one!

[@nortonmc6127]

@@banjomir519 Pointer precision is basically mouse acceleration which adjusts the mouse cursor movement speed based on how quickly you move the mouse. It's bad for precision and consistency

[@xTopCityx]

@@banjomir519 What nortonmc6127 said but I'll explain it differently. Disabling it gives your mouse a set speed so you're always aiming at the same speed instead of aiming being slower initially.

[@purvue]

Lets say you move the mouse 2 inches slowly you will travel on screen an X amount. But if you move the mouse the same 2 inches but you do it faster your character will moves way more in the game. The acceleration makes it inconsistent which makes you take longer to get use to the feel. ​@banjomir519

[@morphx_EDITZ]

you are the best tech youtuber in the whole youtube bro fr its the first time i found you and i have +110fps its just soo crazy thank youu !!!!!!!!

[@rickinwast]

Accolades! I was having a bad experience with RDR2 running like thick molasses :-) I mean, watching paint dry very slowly from the time the game launched to inside setting. Your recommendations fixed this! ~ Game Changer~

[@DuckyOnQuack.999]

I. Recommend keeping game mode on regardless when you open a game other apps look for this toggle so they can slow down to offer more resources for your game.

[@nathansuss]

Great video, half this stuff I've never tried before, I'll definitely try some of it

[@zhuguidai]

ATI graphics cards? Bro made me think I was watching something from decades ago for a moment

[@safari99sm]

I would do some research on the NVidia settings my man... Use normal (Optimal power for 2000 series and below) in power management and in texture filtering use performance if you want the best results!

[@timofaust1315]

Yeah, with my 4090 I really really want my card not to run at higher wattage while I am idle or just browsing.

[@Methodical2]

@@timofaust1315 Yep. I check HWinfo and those changes pegged my 4090 so I had to revert settings. I also don't want it pegged with no load.

[@forzamicha46]

A must have channel, thank you so so much ,as a pc tech there's lots of tricks i didn't know,you are the best man !

[@MrDirtyTubeSock]

I just wanted to say thank you. it was driving me nut seeing another youtuber with the same CPU and GPU combo getting like 15% more performance than my system. Following some of the suggests in your video like turning off Core Isolation gave me extra 30fps in my Cyberpunk benchmark, which is crazy.

[@lilSmurf69]

cant believe it took algorithm so long to give me your channel i like the side by side performance benchmarking

[@rmorenberg]

I always enjoy you presentation style and of course your videos

[@c4nchi]

If you are using a Laptop use balanced power profile and let nvidia power management on normal because that 2 things makes your gpu work constantly consuming more batery.

[@SweetDreamsLB]

Who is gaming on a laptop on battery and not plugged in?

[@Jakiyyyyy]

You could just compile both videos into one though. It's basically the same. Windows 11 is great, it's just that everyone keep hating on it for some reason because the internet told them to do so? Also the Task Schedule tricks are what kinda new to me and the main point of this video. Thanks.

[@dougmasters4561]

No its because when we switched we found out that someone with a lot of tiny bad ideas made a lot of the tiny things utterly stupid to use for no good reason.

[@christophervanzetta]

@@dougmasters4561people have complained over every windows upgrade just because they like taking longer to do the same thing that’s quicker on the newer upgrades . It makes no damn sense!

[@cheezyjokester]

Great video! I have been PC gaming since my 486 into the Pentium era. Some of these I knew, but many I never thought about. Thank you for the great walk through! Also love the decor.

[@pepepepe796]

Nice video, to the point and clear. Thanks for sharing.

[@quietnites7561]

how convenient i needed this and it was uploaded yesterday...

[@thisoldminer]

Great info Rich... keep it coming plz.

[@sonicfantech]

i Think that Windows 11 has got Better, That'sGood

[@Neil-Norwich]

Thanks so much for your in depth video guide :) (regards Neil UK)

[@svetlanadiaries]

Thank you very much! I have my new gaming pc and this was helpful!😊

[@TheFateXX]

Nice video. instant subscibed because you explained the steps and what they do

[@Simon_Hawkshaw]

Thanks so much for this great, and easy to follow, advice. Much appreciated.

[@Ladioz]

While I really enjoy these videos, especially the part about telling windows defender to scan when you want rather than when it wants.... i would like to see how much difference it makes, especially with a side by side benchmark clip at the end of the video. Im not expecting fps numbers to increase, things like this can also simply mean that the system will respond or feel better when there arent scans in the background.... cheers..

[@baldknobby]

I completely disable windows defender.

[@wz-fv2ix]

@@baldknobby we aint that stupid yet

[@christophervanzetta]

@@baldknobbySo you can be hacked easily? I’M NOT THAT STUPID! 😂

[@baldknobby]

Haven't been hacked, smart enough to not download/open/browse stuff to get me hacked I guess. Been using/building PC's since 1998.

[@Thor777AHT]

6:18 Love it!

[@xserinkayax]

Turn on the game mode, I tried it in the New World game, it increased the performance by 10%.

[@m.heyatzadeh]

Personally I haven't seen much difference changing these values. I tested some of these options, like Core Isolation, and it didn't make any noticable difference. I think with newer versions of Windows you dont need to tweak your system in order to get higher fps. It pretty much comes down to your system specs and how the game is optimized by the developers.

[@andrewpomodoro]

ive made some good strides increased 1% lows, and way more stable fps/no fpsdrops, but ive done more to my windows/bios then just this video. My pc does also feel more responsive but can't entirely cut out if its placebo or not. Not sure about how much fps i was averaging before but I can estimate atleast 75-125 frame (around a 33% from past) increase in valorant alone. The highest in an actual match ive seen it at was 700 and lowest 400's. constant 400+fps with minor dips. I can for sure say before I remember my frame dips would be crazy 400-300 constant peak/drop - +40-60frames. but most of the time whenever i look at my frames it'll only move as if its maxed out on vsync so it'll peak at a number usually 430 with small peaks/drops of 10-20frames. one of the best changes besides hardware overclocking was renaming gamebarpresence in sys32 and disabling in registry. this was what helped alot for 1% lows and framerate stability!

[@m.heyatzadeh]

@@andrewpomodoro Wow, you get 300+ fps on valorant meaning you've got very good specs. If I were you I'd leave it alone. I usually play single player games and as far as I get 60+ fps I'm ok with it. I only changed Nvidia control panel values to boost performance.

[@andrewpomodoro]

1000% brother my frames before were already good, really high and way more then I need but the constant drops and peaks kind of made the game feel weird. switching between extremely smooth and then something just feeling slightly ‘off’. almost like running your hand along a smooth surface but feeling a slight misshape due to a spill not cleaned properly lol. I would rate the experience as good before but after optimizations literally beyond PERFECT. no exaggeration but I can brute force my aim and not focus on crosshair placement as much because I kill people that fast if I don’t miss my shots, and I am in high elo aswell.

[@m.heyatzadeh]

@@andrewpomodoro You're right about the dips in performance, they're so annoying on PC sometimes. The 1% lows are as important because they affect the experience.

[@andrewpomodoro]

@@m.heyatzadeh frame rate stability and microstutters are extremely annoying bro competitive game or not, I would rather a smooth but low fps compared to a high unstable one. I would suggest if I were to do only one optimization to windows itself is renaming the gamebarpresence in system32. no joke man that one was a huge difference for me in reducing frame rate instability and 1% lows. Everything else just makes a tiny difference but adds up the more optimizations you pile ontoplol

[@MaverickSpawn]

Thank you for this video, this is exactly what I was looking for.

[@thewildalbert]

you lie

[@rodrigopinchiari4027]

Greetings bro! Excellent video and explanation!!! Thanks! 😉

[@Uglylizard66]

Thanks for taking time make great video.

[@ignoredickheads]

Rory zgallagher gave 1000% in every appearance. Simply the best live. The studio albums never really captured the joy and energy of his live performances.

[@robyronin]

This is a real Tech Wizard. Liked and subbed.

[@r.abarajithan8498]

Hi, i would like very much to give thanks you..your every videos will be very interested and usefulness

[@timullits639]

ATI graphics cards? - Its been a while since Ive heard that brand name :)

[@GoDirectly2Jail]

Don't use high performance power option if you have a Ryzen 5000 or 7000 series cpu. Amd themselves recommend using balanced power plan.

[@CyberCPU]

I have a 5000 series and have no issues.

[@willutheGreat]

why. is it the temps. it indeed is going 102 max but even on balanced it go to 100. i have a 5600h laptop

[@1donjuego]

Yes, please get into and test Game Mode. I'm hesitant to turn it off based on rumours.

[@jobasti]

​ @CyberCPU - Revisiting this video after a few months and having a lot of trouble with "idle power consumption". The 2 settings "Energy plan: High Perfirmance" and "Nvidia Power-Management Mode: Max Performance" make it that the Ryzen 9 5950x and my 3080 Ti use a very much more idle power then normal. The CPU idles at 120 instead of 20-60w and the GPU idles 113-143w instead of 25-39w, changing theese and reboots solves the problem. Sometimes you just idle or want to watch YT. Idling at 255-280w instead of 80-130w is quite a lot, living in Germany (#3 most expensive power prices, worldwide") i reverted theese settings to not bleed me dry in money. A "info/Disclaimer" about this would be nice. But again, Awesome video, love it!

[@jobasti]

I will do this for my next clean install again, but less "energy-aggressive" 👌

[@isaacvelasquez4508]

how did u check idle thing?

[@jobasti]

@@isaacvelasquez4508 Power-Meter on my outlet

[@jobasti]

@@isaacvelasquez4508 Power-draw-meter on the outlet

[@wapperjaw8282]

Wow ... TU! My Cached dropped from 6.7 GB to 2.6 GB ... thanks. I was also able to under-volt my MSI 3060ti GPU lower from 900 mV to 875 mV without crashing.

[@jonnyhaze]

I've heard different things regarding leaving power settings on balanced rather than high performance. If you care about you electricity bill or want your components to run cooler when not gaming than isn't it better to just leave it on balanced? Pretty much all modern games will be detected by windows to switch power delivery mode to high performance when gaming so i don't see how that is going to help. If you have a gaming laptop i would definitely leave power mode on balanced since that is going to directly effect your battery life.

[@avox5651]

and what is best minimum processor state they say 5 is best .but i think 0 is faster some people say 100 but when i put it to 100 lets just say lets not do that lol.

[@m.heyatzadeh]

​@@avox5651don't touch CPU power state as it can cause your CPU run high speed even when it's not needed. It'll cause CPU to run hot.

[@nothingtoaddhere11]

i keep this always open and switch to balanced when i play and when i dont play i just put in low battery

[@swede7581]

Thanks 4 this 1. I just bought a new pc(from a store n asked if it was ready n fixed settings 4 gaming only)Yes n the win 11 pc was to say the least almost as slow as my older win10 i5 9400f gtx1650 n compared to new i5 12400f rtx3060 12gb 16gb 3200mhz it should be a noticable difference i think(atleast all game installes have dramaticly changed from hours to minutes example 6hours takes now 20min so that is a big change for me now) So i hope this will help out win11 n gaming(i got tired yesterday of pc almost stopped a while while gaming due to something w defender n other stuff that started up big time) Thanks 4 this help video

[@kingqwilwinters7610]

Best bet is to disable Defender completely

[@kupski1964]

Bro, AWESOME , I have an older PC that I built and this is HUGE.. thanks man, I liked the video and also saved it to my favorites.

[@Methodical2]

I saw some nice FPS gains in The Last of Us with these settings (did not change Nvidia power setting to extreme power though). I haven't played other games just yet.

[@BeardedLearza]

wouldn't recommend turning core isolation off as annoying as it is it also protects the processor from malicious code being injected into the processor...in theory.

[@MJ-nn6cr]

As long as you have TPM enabled (by default on Windows 11) and the latter has a native function with the CPU you can safely disable the core isolation, since the latter only defends against one type of attack, and to receive such an attack you have to go looking for it. Viruses or deceptive codes don't happen by chance, it all depends on how you use your computer. By the way, core isolation is a windows feature, instead TPM is both software and hardware working through your system BIOS.

[@ryanphillips4700]

I had to grin when i heard you say nvidia and "ATi" cards; you must be old like me ;)

[@incrediblyStupid678]

Great video, but I'd just like to say: if you use your PC for anything else but gaming or if you play pirated games, you may want to leave core isolation and other security features on.

[@rager86]

this really really helped. thanks!

[@matthewstreacker7402]

When I tell you these optimizations made my pc feel like an actual gaming pc im not kidding! I’ve had a pc for around 4 years now and ive never had games run so snappy and smoothly. It’s odd that it’s the first time that my fps somehow feels accurate? I’ll have 120 fps now that looks smoother than 120 fps did before. Don’t know how that works but I’m stoked

[@Mr.Eminem]

Bruh u made no sense...

[@matthewstreacker7402]

@@Mr.Eminem Cool who asked you

[@ardithconley2628]

Hey doyou remember Warp Which got rebranded and dropped by IBM? It was a better windows than windows and ran windows apps better than windows. I see things like Atlas OS which is kind of the same thing. You still need a paid version of Windows Pro to make this work. I would love to see some kind of linuux that would do the same thing as OS/2 Warp did. That would turn windows into the kind of operating system it should be. One that shared you PC resources and just ran you programs with out all the mess. No back doors and phone home and else where.

[@Squeezyness]

Do you have a video about handling customers that refuse to pay their invoice?

[@CyberCPU]

No, I've definitely had that before though. Sometimes it's best to pick your battles. You can end up wasting a lot of time trying to go after someone and overall lose in the long run.

[@Vavanacasa]

Nice onde dude, i like you i like you videos and i like tour knowledge...keep the good work

[@rickgraf8017]

Hi Rich, Great channel and videos. Happy Friday! What benchmark do you use to check the expected performance from your hardware? I've been using 3dMark Timespy Extreme, but seems like my results are considerably lower when compared to others results with the same hardware. tia

[@CyberCPU]

I use MSI afterburner.

[@Darkhalfcustoms]

Time spy also grades how stable your system is at speed not just performance. So scores can change a bit with every test run.

[@EdMaldo-me8gn]

just subscribed . Great video.

[@CyberCPU]

Thanks for the sub!

[@pkillthrills5693]

Thnx man, really usefull video!

[@justlifetv2024]

THANKS GREAT HELP BRO! id like to know if game mode is better be be on or off?

[@anglespoggle]

I’d love some tests on game mode!

[@Anonomoss]

Hey there, I really appreciated this video. And obviously you really know your stuff. I have an off topic question I'm hoping you might be able to easily answer? Last year I Built a monster machine; AMD Ryzen 9,5950 1 TB Gen 4 M2 SSD, 64 gigs of DDR 4 3200 memory, Nvidia RTX 3080, Windows 11, ASUS dark hero 7. and my question is; I built this machine to game and to do content creation. I use Photoshop elements 2023 and I'm using a 4K monitor. And anytime I try to use brushes in Photoshop especially the cloning tool, My machine just absolutely crawls and stutters it's horrible and obviously quite a bummer considering I spent all this money making machine specifically to do things like that. I was wondering if there were any settings I might tweak to get Photoshop elements 2023 running normally? I've done the obvious thing such as gone into the settings within the program and make sure it's you know using my Nvidia 3080 for help, but it runs like shit. Any suggestions are highly appreciated...

[@8K240hz]

I seriously doubt disabling all of the services will help you gain any significant amount of gaming performance.. please go ahead and post a video of you recording the game performance for a few games before and after performing these "optimizations".

[@eMbAh]

I'm also doubting some of these settings actual relevance for performance. Core isolation is definitely important to disable, but the services? Does it actually matter?

[@achilleasdimitriosagaklees6219]

Hi like the @Chilledoutredhead say....GREAT video, so easy to understand for someone like me, im biginner pc gamer jump from ps4.Thank you so much.

[@Dark_Riider]

Roses are red 🌹 Violets are blue 💙 Instructions were unclear 🤔 It looks like i have deleted system 32 😳

[@Rangerthelonewolf]

Any that has done what this guy has said. Have you seen a performance in gaming. Assuming it comes down in hopes to get more fps. There was no before and after on this video.

[@smartinro.]

For nvidia users, I prefer to use 'geforce experience'. Not only set up your games with the 'almost' the best video settings, but also warns you when new drivers are released, and update them with just a click

[@sudd3660]

what the hell, no, absolutely no!

[@smartinro.]

@@sudd3660 Can you elaborate?

[@kbear8899]

Thank you so much for the info. I just updated today to windows 11 and it's all new to me. I do have a question, Do I have to do anything in my BIOS due to the new windows version update? I'm running a AMD build.

[@leteaa]

yea you should test game-mode again for sure, cuz on my system its actaully better to leav it on for gamign ^^

[@guerrillagames7279]

Great vid. Just hot a pc and will be doing this

[@harshhell4185]

Great video👍 only thing I’d add is if you have an AMD 7950x3d for example don’t disable game bar and don’t set power plan to high performance, just leave it on balanced.

[@obredaanps3]

@@developer6619 - You're consuming more power(which makes everything run hotter) when you don't actually need it. The cpu and gpu will use max performance when they need to use it.

[@portman8909]

I had thermal issues with my 7800x3D. Enabled Processor Boost Mode Control. You can google how to do this. And then went from aggressive to disabled. Noticed zero performance loss and now chip is way cooler and CPU fans don’t turn into jet engines.

[@portman8909]

@@obredaanps3turn off boost mode for laptops and hot chips

[@thomasyoung1685]

Haha every time i get a new computer i come back to this video i think I've 4x the like button on this video now

[@Bluebearyhum3]

Hey man great video! How do you feel about turning off ecores for gaming ?

[@Tengaii]

Thanks bro

[@CyberCPU]

Welcome

[@rezopolis]

Great video gramps you good

[@jackcollazo]

Great video but windows 11 already has a "Game Mode" feature in the Game Settings where when turned on it optimizes the PC for better performance. Pretty much everything I went through in this video has already been applied because I had game mode on.

[@TiagrajI]

Superb. Thank you so much

[@TurboLoveTrain]

Neat. Great video. My only issue with MSI afterburner is it doesn't automatically come on with windows by default. It took me way to long to notice this.

[@alexmcgrgr]

It does it you check the start up box in Afterburner👍

[@mrcontrol111]

If I apply all these on my laptop Acer Aspire A315 windows 11, will it let work and function well for Saint Row 2 gameplay?

[@Dan_The_Man1]

I'm running a 4090 and i9 13900k, for star citizen we use to have to disable e-cores but not anymore due to a patch awhile back BUT if anyone is wondering why they are still stuttering with e cores enabled with this CPU (maybe others) I had to enable core isolation (memory integrity) and it runs flawlessly now. So there could be a possibility certain games could react differently. I'm assuming most games would run better with it off.

[@adamu6941]

great and safe way to optimize ;) Ty

[@CrazyhorseDK]

nice vid my man as allways

[@Coyotemoon73]

I've been watching a lot of videos lately and some say one thing and the others say a different thing. Which is better to use for gaming pc, using an hdmi cable or a displayport cable?

[@Andrei-lv3ep]

One more settings its called FAST STARTUP, for me it fixed the mouse delay when i start the windows, but i have the delay after 3-4 hours, so i need to restart the windows, by the way i have a wireless mouse, that may be the problem, if someone have a permanent fix tell me , I apreciate !

[@eduonkhl]

Changing your pc form balanced to high performance is really stupid imho. The only change you'll get is that your pc power consumption will significantly go up in the idle state because cpu and gpu won't be able to clock down any longer and it's not like you have really any disadvantage in games either because it will use the maximum performance anyway and you'll even save some power with manual fps caps since the gpu will try to balance clocks for the given scenario to maintain that lock as best as possible, maybe you get some small drops in edge cases that you wouldn't have gotten with the maximum clock rate but VRR also solves that issue. If you're really that keen to have the best possible performance in games where it doesn't automatically go to the highest clock you can select the same power plan on a per application basis in the nvidia control panel so your clocks lock to the maximum performance setting while you still save power on idle where having max clocks makes pretty much zero difference.

[@CyberCPU]

I made a video on that. It's not true. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oF6ueJeCpaymnrM

[@eduonkhl]

@@CyberCPU Hi thanks for the response! I watched the entire video you have linked but at least with default windows settings on the power plans I can't replicate your results. Maybe it's because you tested on an amd cpu? I retested on what I claimed and sure enough my cpu is dead stuck on the max turbo frequency 24/7 as soon as I enable the high performance power plan even at idle or very low usage tasks. However the results on more consistent frametimes are intriguiging and I'll probably either tune the high performance plan with the windows power plan settings explorer you recommended or manually switch before gaming. I'm starting to think that those people online you have shown are not spreading misinformation with the cpu not downclocking specifically but rather that we are looking at some kind of bug (maybe Intel specific) where some cpu's don't behave like intended on the high power plan. You think you could test this theory? In my case it's 2 different models of Intel's 8th gen lineup that are stuck at max turbo clock once you enable high performance power plan. Let me know which settings you'd like to know from my power plan readout if that's of any help. I understand your frustrations on people where someone might easily think it's misinformation because the results are not repeatable on your own setup and the official guidlines of the power plans (hidden) settings seem to confirm that, but sometimes it's worth considering that nobody is technically in the wrong from the consumers point of view and it's just someone at the manufacturer or OS provider unintentionally messing something up and causing unintend behavior where all those consumer reports are coming from. Cheers mate!

[@CyberCPU]

​@@eduonkhl good point. There may very well be situations where a software bug could cause the CPU to go to Max boost because of the power plan. However, that wouldn't be by design. That would just be a bug.

[@adflash6721]

Hey brother, i have 2 higher refresh rates, one is 144hz and one is (72 or 144hz) dynamic refresh rate, which one should i choose?

[@saitamakun8266]

Which gives us consistent performance!

[@stephenkeen6039]

On the 'refresh' rate thing, I tried to up my refresh rate from 60 to 170. According to the monitors manual, I should be able to do that. When I did it, the monitor went black and the computer would not boot up. So, I did a repair, which succeeded. Then I went into the NVIDIA software, and adjusted the refresh rate from there, and, it worked! I am mystified to say the least.

[@unclej3910]

After changing my power setting to High performance, my idle power went up an extra 10 watts. Balanced lowers it back down 10 watts. That is on an Intel i5-13600k computer with a Radeon RX 6800 graphics card and the latest drivers.

[@gundalfthelost1624]

That's normal.

[@eskevarmkdrake]

I start with DOS 4 in 1990. Win95 was a bit bugged yes but at least dont fill your PC with junk and need so many settings to go well. Every new version of Windows have more junk, give less freedom to the users and need more time to be set as user want.

[@yetitobediscovered]

For games with anticheats DEFINITELY disable gamemode. With it on i sometimes get 100fps drops periodically while playing valorant

[@Jarinage]

Please note that changing gpu power management mode to max. performance will keep your gpu running at high clocks even when just browsing the net, or watching videos. At least that's what happened to me. It means more heat, and obviously more power draw, fans spinning etc. In this case I think it's much better to specify this in game profiles via nv control panel, possibly nv inspector to have gpu at max performance only when it's needed.

[@CyberCPU]

Here are the differences between balanced mode and high performance. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oF6ueJeCpaymnrM

[@VenomusDragon-gx8xt]

For xbox services, i set them to manual so that any app that needs them in the future can start them but they wont stay started.

[@mathiasdreke180]

The best tasklist for setting up Win11 for really fast gaming: 1. Boot a Windows 10 Image from a USB device and delete the Windows 11 partition 2. Install Windows 10 and enjoy high performance gaming without any issues

[@kristaps2010]

yea, good video 100% THANK YOU