Ultimate Windows 11 Gaming Performance Optimization Guide 

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0:10 ah yes, a man of culture

You are the greatest! I was going to downgrade this because of the performance issues but you have fixed them all!

This is Amazing!. FPS are now much more stable, I see this tutorial much more like tunning the PC like a console focused guide, and it's great!

Great and amazing video! Sure brought back memories from when built my first gaming desktop. I liked and Subscribed. I just bought a new gaming laptop but I'm in no hurrying for Windows 11 right away. I want to make sure that everything is going well with Ryzen CPUs and other drivers first.

You secured my life. I didn't even know some things. Absolute added value! Thank you!

Thank you so much, everything helped a lot; you telling everything so clearly was really a helper! You rock man!

Just a tip for laptop users: If you set your processor power management to 100% expect extreme overheating. I think 95-98% on maximum is enough and 90% on min also does it good. Even just a few percentage of lowering this from 100% can make your baby run on less heat. Its especially important for us as things are more squeezed together and its much easier for the hardware to heat up.

The Ultimate Performance option really helped, thanks

Awesome tutorial vid! Great stuff TC!

So helpful! Hope to see more

Setting up my pc after a fresh buy having used windows 10 for years, super helpful my guy - thanks.

I just started gaming on pc and was frustrated with the performance i was getting ( setup AMD ryzen 5 5600x/ 3060ti /32 gb corsair vengeance/ ect...) this video is INVALUABLE. Thank you!!

Great video, many other videos like this only have some of these optimizations, you have all the ones I’ve seen plus more in one comprehensive video. Awesome job and thanks a lot!

Thank you very much for this long guide ! Just what i needed !

what we need is a microsoft certified person to guide us on how to configure our gaming computers for good performance.

All the optimization that I need, Thanks man I got my Win10 good performance back ForReal.❤️

Thank you so much I went from low fps with an extra low setting to high fps with the highest settings! Your guide has helped me so much with my gameplay even tho I have really high ping (200-400) it helped nevertheless. Keep up the content ur a legend!

Audio frequency matters when it comes to latency btw. It's not always about how high it can go but how "fast" it can go.

I don't mind if this would make a single difference in my pc, but the way you explain each and everything, I am completely amazed buddy, I wish you keep this work up to more, really appreciated your hard work. Regards,

halfway in from 60 fps to 80 so far so great new sub to you :)

Thanks man! Your video tutorial helped a lot ^^

Fabulous video, Thanks!

Thanks dude for dropping this " you have a nice voice dud, Nice!"

Not sure what worked, but definitely it worked. Awesome video. Highly recommended. After 4 months of RTX 4090 I now get the full potential. Boost of 20 odd fps but way smoother. Thanks

You're good at explaining things properly, and your voice is somehow surprisingly soothing. Thank you for your work on this video man.

ITS WORKING! nice job dude

You sound like a 20+yo Stewie Griffen lol Thanks for the tips! Forgot a few of the tips and this helped quite a bit!

Thank you sooooo much! Now instead of getting only like 40-50 FPS, I'm getting 100-240 FPS thanks! 👍👍👍👍👍

Thank You So Much, It Does Increase My FPS And Optimized Speed As Same Like My Old Windows 7 OS. Thank You :)

Very useful video, it helps a lot.:)

That guide is in-depth! Wow. It exceeds expectations: 11/10

just installed windows 11 few hours ago and i love it. Didin't notice any drops in warzone actually i just followed your guide for optimization and i think i'm gonna have even more fps than i had on windows 10 since before this guide the fps was the same as it was on win 10. thank you, subscribing :)

Omg thank you so so much. My fps drops but it stays on yellow and more longer higher and great fps thank you so much. This will help me a lot. I've searched a long time finally found it.

Thanks for the absolute great video!!!

22:35 The Literally One Hour Note made me check the time on the bottom right before and after cleanup and found out it took only 20 mins. 😂😂 Thx for the video bro. :)

*The 7 F's in Regedit should be 8

Thanks for the info!

Wow,this was amazing!

26:58 this depends on the specific game. most games manually set the timer resolution. also the resolution is global. so if you have any software on your computer that sets it quicker than all your stuff will run quicker. this explains why it makes some games why more response for some people but does nothing for others

Thanks!!! My frame rates went up dramatically.

When i had watched half the video i tested a game out. The preformance was SO much better! Thanks!

super helpful. well done.

Very straight forward guide with zero risk, only rewards of FPS! If you are seriously scared, just make a system restore point. = )

can you do a guide of how to have an awesome voice like yours?

This video helped so much thank you! My frames would always stutter often. After I followed the steps in this video it no longer happens : )

seems to be working. thanks man good stuff

22:24 how would u use that file for previous versions to go back to windows 10?

Me: *starring at this video for no reason* Also me: *look's at my pc* my pc: "is that gonna help you?"

Omg thank you so much its helping a lot!!!!

man that was great thanks a lot !

timer resolution doesn't force the cpu to run at max speed. it adjusts timing in windows apps.

hey, do you think you could explain your registry changes, im hesitant to change those files especially without knowing what said changes do.

A must watch video for anyone with a fresh windows 11 install. I'm actually amazed you were able to compress "how to make windows stop running bullshit" down to 30 minutes.

Thanks so much... I love the way you explay everythings and I like your voice very much... thanks :D

Be honest, as a gamer & streamer, is it best to stick with windows 10 or get windows 11 and follow this guide? I want to ensure minimal bugs and issues, while making sure im on max FPS and performance.

Didn't know watching someone typing 7 F's could be so satisfying.

very helpful, thanks 👍

Great video. Thank you:)

There are multiple things in this video that don't really make any sense to do or there's some additional info needed to be said. Audio settings: changing format in advanced settings to anything higher than 24 bits 48000hz (which is default) makes no sense if you're not music producer. One reason is that all audio will end up being resampled to no extra benefit and another reason is that if you play any old games (eg. Call of Duty 2) you can encounter stutters or crashes or no audio all together. Mindlessly just putting highest number in the format and forgetting about it could easily make people encounter audio issues and completely forgetting they ever set this and thus having no idea how to fix such problems so just leave it default to prevent running into audio issues. Power plans: Ultimate power plan is exactly the same as high performance. It's power plan left over from old days of windows vista which is why it's not shown by default. Honestly nowadays even high performance power plan isn't really useful it just wastes power keeping cpu always at 100% clock and if possible in turbo so balanced power plan with adjusting the slider to best performance is much better option that can save a bit of power when browsing web but still keep the responsivity during gaming. Multitasking: Turning off window snapping to the sides has absolutely no performance cost while you're gaming and when you alt tab to the desktop to look at something if game drops a frame in the background you don't care it drops frames while you're alt tabbing anyway so having it on or off is just about wanting the feature or not there's no performance hit whatsoever. Windows appearance & performance: Again just personal preference. setting best performance just removes animations on windows which can make windows feel snappier but it doesn't increase fps in any way because as long as you play games in native fullscreen not borderless fullscreen then the game is being rendered directly to the screen bypassing any kind of desktop compositing for these animation effects. In borderless fullscreen or windowed mode certain settings in this menu do give some performance in few cases but who plays esports titles where that matters in a window right? Cleaning up windows: deleting temp is completely irrelevant to anything other than disk space being taken and windows automatically clears temp folder periodically so no need to do that. Disk cleanup: Also completely optional also take note that checking DirectX shader cache will mean it deletes all the already compiled cached shaders so next time you open games you've played you will probably experience more stutter the first time because it will have to recompile all of the shaders on the fly or if game precompiles shaders in the menu/lobby like Warzone you will have to wait minutes for it to recompile everything again. So just take note on that. Sometimes clearing the cache can help resolve visual glitches in games but it's quite rare. QuickCPU: completely unnecessary because high performance or ultimate performance power plan already has all of these settings pre configured. Also windows doesn't enable core parking by default on win10 due to bugs in task scheduling and barely any power saving benefit so i assume win 11 is exactly the same unless they suddenly got their $hit together. CCleaner: These are very hit or miss. I've found CCleaner break multiple windows installation over the years so personally i've stopped using it years ago but maybe it's fixed now who knows that's just my experience. I just wanna say create windows restore point before using any kind of cleaning tools just in case so you can restore and don't have to reinstall Windows as whole. TimerResolution: Programs can adjust timer resolution and many games will do so so i don't really see the point but whatever try it for yourself. Defragmenting/trimming: just turn on scheduled optimization and select the drives and windows will do it periodically automatically. For mechanical hard drives it might be better to do it manually because if it's heavily fragmented it can take hours and while it's running it will make the drive feel very unresponsive so running it manually you know it's running and you won't be wondering why suddenly your drive is being 100% used by windows. For SSDs weekly trim is enough for normal use. It's even turned on by default like that but it's good to check it's set since trimming extends life of SSDs and also makes it faster by preparing blocks for writing ahead of time.

I had a terrible glitch where my fps dropped everytime I moved my mouse. Painful to say the least, luckily having the revert to windows 10 saved me

Your a real genius!....this fixes the lower fps in games on windows 11! Thanks alot

Thanks a lot it helped me bring my laptops life back

Can anyone explain what is the use of regedit process. Also, I would advice anyone to not conduct the regedit process if you are not sure what the process actually does. Leave performance tuning and all that stuff to the trusted softwares like geforce experience or radeon settings to do. Also I was wondering whether turning off hybrid mode(MUX switch) would also lead to the battery options set to video quality?

DO NOT, use the High Performance power plan if you're running latest gen Ryzen. They work better on balanced. Please follow these "guides" with care.

Soooo helpful. Thank you.

Nice tutorial video!

From 40-170fps in CSGO, best video ever, I've tried many other optimization videos before, but nothing helped me THAT much, thank you so much 💪❤️

Windows 11 Game mode at present overrides your power plan settings and even if you try to select the power plan manually per game via gaming > game mode> Graphics

This has helped me so much with my new gaming laptop Big thanks

thanks for the video ❤

Well that escalated quickly

was expecting something new or interesting, but these are all standard Windows 10 tips that we should all know already

thanks for the tip man it helped me a lot

great video thanks for your tips! Have a great Day.

Just a helpful reminder: You shouldn't optimize or defrag your SSDs, as it does nothing for the drive's performance. On the contrary, it can decrease your SSD's lifespan.

Great tips thanks, IMO ref: defragging. Most SSD manufacturers will recommened not defragging SSD's as it reduces the life for little to no improvements.

Thank you so much!

thanks dude, you really helped me out

Thanks it really took me from 50 FPS To 100+

Can you do a comparison of a game before and after the optimizations?

NO WAY!!!!!!! This actually worked 😂 I used to have stuttering in warzone now I reach 100 FPS with an average of 90. I have a really good gaming laptop so I was confused why the FPS wasn't better. Thanks man!

This helps so much. You got a sub from me!

Hey dude, there a trick that boost my gaming performance drastically, is by turning off game DVR feature using regedit. Please consider making video about that, my fps in Valorant just went like 30fps to 120fps, stable And, your tips are also very useful and important too :v combining your tips and disabling DVR give me a big boost in game FPS. Thanks a lot, man! Edit: Bruh, I'm suprised that many people got problem turning off game DVR using regedit. Actually you can turn off game DVR using Windows setting too, which is Xbox game bar in Gaming > Xbox game bar. Also, I'm sorry for bricking your PCs if you've tried with regedit before :

Many methods are correct, some are wrong, and some primary optimization methods are missing. I guess they are the most secret ones. :-)

nice clip bro, good luck!

THE BEST VIDEO EVER SEEN ON RU-vid...I CAN'T DESCRIBE MY FEELINGS IN WORDS FOR YOU...ALL I CAN SAY IS THANK YOU💖

You missed the most important setting in the power setting, which is PCI Express -> Link State Power Management -> set to OFF.

Me the second I click on the video : Ok let's optimize my windows Me 10 sec later : his window looks weird Me after realizing it's windows 11, not windows 10 : hippoty hapoty I'm leaving your property

Wohoo I got them!! Thanks so much

Awesome video bro thx a lot

Great video! But you don't need to defrag an SSD due to it's random accessing of stored data. This will (even if small) just negatively effect the lifetime of the drive.

it says I don't have either a amd or Nvidia driver in my laptop but this video still upgraded my gaming a lot. thanks dude!

Wow what a great video very dense of useful info. Ty

I think I accidentaly down my hertz to 40 instead of keeping at 60 ._. this is very very smoother as I used 40 hertz for 2 weeks thanks!

Even I called It CCCleaner, until I realized it was CCleaner.

ive learned quite a bit from this lmao thanks man

Very welcoming. Thank you.

tutorial is somewhat useful, but i would Not recommend unexperienced users to mess with regedit.

the virtual ram i never miss with that, every tutorial that suggest to change that always leads to system inestability, lets try the others