Performance
Windows Settings That Genuinely Affect Gaming Performance
Most Windows optimisation guides are folklore. These are the settings with measurable effects, and the ones that do nothing.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
Performance
35 articles
Performance
Router Settings That Actually Reduce Lag
QoS, band selection, channel congestion and the settings that make a measurable difference versus the ones that are placebo.
Marcus Reyes·4 minAugust 12
Performance
VRAM and Texture Settings Explained: How Much Do You Actually Need
What VRAM does, why allocated is not the same as used, and how to tell whether you are genuinely short of it.
Marcus Reyes·4 minAugust 12
ConsolesComplete guide
Steam Deck Settings That Actually Extend Battery Life
The Deck's biggest wins come from frame caps and TDP limits, not graphics presets. Here's how to double your battery life without ruining the game.
Marcus Reyes·4 minAugust 12
Performance
Second Monitors and Gaming: What Breaks and How to Fix It
Frame rate drops when a video plays on the second screen, alt-tab problems, mismatched refresh rates and the fixes for each.
Marcus Reyes·4 minAugust 12
Roblox
Running Roblox on a School or Work Laptop
Integrated graphics, locked-down accounts and 4GB of RAM. What actually helps on hardware that was not bought for games.
Marcus Reyes·4 minAugust 12
Roblox
Playing Roblox on a Weak Laptop, Chromebook or Old Phone
Roblox runs on almost anything, badly. Here's how to get a stable frame rate out of hardware that shouldn't manage it.
Priya Shah·3 minAugust 12
RobloxComplete guide
How to Boost FPS in Roblox (Settings, Flags and What's a Myth)
Roblox runs badly on hardware that should handle it easily. Here's why, and the settings that make a measurable difference.
Priya Shah·4 minAugust 12
Gear
RAM Speed and Timings: How Much It Actually Matters
Memory speed matters more than it used to and less than enthusiasts claim. The bigger issue is that most people never enable it.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
MobileComplete guide
Phone Overheating While Gaming: Why It Throttles and What to Change
A phone that gets hot drops frame rate within minutes, and no setting stops physics. Here's how to reach a stable frame rate that survives a full session instead of a good first five minutes.
Marcus Reyes·5 minAugust 12
Performance
Packet Loss and Rubber-Banding: Finding Where It Actually Happens
Rubber-banding is not lag. It is packets going missing, and a two-minute test tells you whether the fault is yours or theirs.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
Performance
NVIDIA Control Panel: The Settings That Actually Matter
Most of the control panel should be left alone. Four settings are worth changing and one of them is genuinely important.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
Consoles
Getting More Out of a Nintendo Switch
Storage cards, dock behaviour, battery decline, Joy-Con drift and the settings most owners never change.
Marcus Reyes·4 minAugust 12
Mobile
Mobile Gaming: Getting More Frames and More Battery Out of Your Phone
Phones throttle hard and fast. Here's the actual order of causes, and the settings that keep a session stable rather than fast for ten minutes.
Dan Okafor·4 minAugust 12
Mobile
Mobile Graphics Settings: Which Ones Actually Cost You
Frame rate cap and resolution scale do most of the damage. The preset slider does less than you think.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
Minecraft
Minecraft Shaders and Texture Packs: What Costs Performance
Shaders and texture packs cost performance in completely different ways, and one of them is far cheaper than people assume.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
MinecraftComplete guide
Minecraft Lag Fix: Why It Stutters on Hardware That Should Fly
Minecraft runs badly on machines that handle far heavier games. The reasons are RAM allocation, garbage collection and render distance — not your graphics card. Tested on Java 1.21 and Bedrock.
Marcus Reyes·6 minAugust 12
Minecraft
The Minecraft Mods Worth Installing First (Performance and Quality of Life)
Skip the mega packs. These are the mods that change how the game runs and feels, in the order you should install them.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
Performance
Minecraft Java Performance Tuning: Allocation, Mods and Render Distance
More RAM is the fix people reach for and usually the wrong one. Here is what actually moves frame rates in Java.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
Performance
Memory Leaks in Games: Why Performance Degrades Over a Session
Some games get progressively worse the longer you play. That specific pattern has a specific cause and one reliable workaround.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
Performance
Input Lag: Where the Milliseconds Actually Go
People chase five milliseconds in the driver while losing forty to a television picture mode. Here is the real budget.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
Performance
Benchmarking Your PC: Measuring What Actually Matters
Average frame rate hides the problem you are trying to find. One percent lows are the number that matches how a game feels.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
Performance
Open World Game Settings: Why Cities Tank Your Frame Rate
Population density, draw distance and traffic settings cost more than graphics quality in open world games. Here is the order to cut them.
Dan Okafor·3 minAugust 12
Fixes
Stuck on a Loading Screen: Infinite Load Diagnosis
An infinite loading screen is usually waiting for something that will never arrive. Working out what narrows it fast.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
Performance
Game Runs Worse After a Driver Update: Rolling Back Properly
New drivers occasionally break specific games. Rolling back works, and there is a right way to do it.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
Performance
Audio Settings for Competitive Play: Hearing What Matters
Dynamic range, virtual surround, EQ and why the loudest setting hides the footsteps you are listening for.
Dan Okafor·3 minAugust 12
Performance
Fullscreen, Borderless or Windowed: Which and Why
Exclusive fullscreen is faster and less convenient. Borderless is smoother to use and adds latency. Here is when each wins.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
Performance
FPS Dropped After a Windows Update: What to Check
Windows updates re-enable settings you turned off and occasionally install a driver you did not want. Both are reversible.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
Performance
EA FC Lag and Stuttering on PC: The Fixes That Held Up
Input delay, mid-match stutter and the memory leak that makes hour three worse than hour one, with the settings that fixed each.
Dan Okafor·3 minAugust 12
Performance
CPU Bottleneck: How to Prove It Rather Than Guess
Utilisation figures tell you which component is the limit. Two numbers settle an argument people have endlessly.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
Performance
Call of Duty Performance and Settings: Stop the Stutter, Keep the Frames
Why Call of Duty stutters even on strong hardware, which settings cost the most, and the shader compilation step everyone skips.
Dan Okafor·4 minAugust 12
Guides
Competitive Shooter Settings: What Actually Affects Your Aim
Settings guides copy pro configs without explaining them. Here's what each setting does to your ability to see and hit things.
Dan Okafor·3 minAugust 12
Performance
Background Apps Killing Your FPS: Finding the Actual Culprit
Closing everything in Task Manager is a blunt instrument. A few specific categories cause nearly all the damage.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
Performance
AMD Adrenalin: Which Settings Are Worth Enabling
Adrenalin has more features enabled by default than NVIDIA's panel, and a couple of them are worth turning off.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
Discover
Best Games for a Potato PC: 18 Genuinely Good Games That Run on Anything
Not a list of 2008 games. Eighteen games worth your time that run at 60 FPS on integrated graphics or an old dual-core, with the measured settings we used to get there.
Dan Okafor·7 minAugust 6