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
Settings
26 articles
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
Guides
Rocket League: Camera Settings and How People Actually Rank Up
Camera settings decide more than mechanics at low ranks. Here's a sane starting configuration and what to practise.
Dan Okafor·3 minAugust 12
Roblox
Roblox Voice Chat: Setup, Age Verification and Turning It Off
Voice chat needs age verification and a verified email. Here's the full setup, the safety controls, and how to disable it properly.
Priya Shah·3 minAugust 12
Consoles
PS5 Settings to Change First: The Twelve That Matter
A new PS5 ships with several defaults that cost you performance, storage or picture quality. These are the ones to fix.
Dan Okafor·3 minAugust 12
Guides
Hero Shooter Settings: What to Change in Overwatch and Marvel Rivals
Frame rate consistency, ability visibility and the settings that make crowded team fights readable rather than pretty.
Dan Okafor·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
Gear
Monitor Calibration for Gaming: Getting Past the Factory Settings
Factory settings are bright and oversaturated because that sells monitors in shops. Fifteen minutes fixes it.
Marcus Reyes·3 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
Mobile
Mobile Gaming Controls: Touch, Controller, or Claw Grip?
Controllers are not automatically better on mobile. Here's what each control method is actually good at, and how to set up claw grip properly.
Dan Okafor·3 minAugust 12
Guides
Aiming Better With a Controller: Deadzone and Response Curve
Most controller players use default settings that were chosen for safety, not accuracy. Two settings change everything.
Dan Okafor·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
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
Gear
Game Audio Settings: Hearing Footsteps Properly
Surround processing usually makes footsteps harder to locate, not easier. Here's how positional audio works and what to enable.
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
PerformanceComplete guide
DLSS, FSR and Frame Generation: What They Actually Do
Upscaling renders fewer pixels. Frame generation invents whole frames. They have completely different trade-offs and one adds latency.
Marcus Reyes·3 minAugust 12
Performance
Fortnite Settings for Frames and Visibility
Performance mode, render distance and the settings that decide whether you see someone before they see you.
Dan Okafor·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
Guides
Crosshair Placement: The Habit That Beats Better Aim
Good players are not faster. Their crosshair was already where the enemy appeared, which removes the need to be fast.
Dan Okafor·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
GuidesComplete guide
Competitive FPS Settings: The Ones That Matter in Every Shooter
Pro settings lists tell you what someone uses, not why. Here's which settings affect your ability to see and hit things, and which are personal preference dressed up as advice.
Dan Okafor·6 minAugust 12
Performance
Apex Legends Performance: Settings, Stutter and Server Issues
Apex has three separate performance problems that look identical. Here's how to tell which one you have.
Dan Okafor·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
Guides
Accessibility Settings Worth Turning On Even If You Do Not Need Them
Subtitles, colourblind modes, hold-to-toggle and the options that make games better for everyone, hidden in a menu most people never open.
Priya Shah·4 minAugust 12
GuidesComplete guide
How to Find Your Perfect Sensitivity (Without Guessing)
Stop copying pro settings. A structured method for finding a sensitivity that fits your desk, your grip and your game — using cm/360, a binary search, and two weeks of honest testing.
Dan Okafor·8 minAugust 8