Drawing flame decals on the sides of my pc makes it faster

The Nagle's algorithm tweak is useless as games use UDP packets to transfer data and this algorithm only is an optimization of TCP packets. In fact, by doing this "tweak" you will decrease the efficiency of anything requiring TCP connections, like browsing, downloading files and so on...

If you want to use the "adjust for best performance", I recommend to keep the "smooth edge of screen fonts" box ticked, because it can sometimes alter how text are displayed in the screen

once you're used to having no mouse acceleration you become a pro fps player on the desktop after a few months. you learn the exact distance to other stuff on the screen, feels awesome

List of things I was maybe hoping to learn more about, but didn't: - HAGS (hardware-assisted graphics scheduling) .. what the heck is that about? - Resize-BAR .. I also still don't really understand what the tradeoff is, with that - the "Fullscreen Optimizations" stuff seems to have come/gone/changed a lot over the past 5 years .. I have no idea what the current state of that is, and what's best - any settings or visibility into controlling keyboard/mouse/joystick input latency, on Windows And, maybe more on the NVidia side of things, than Windows, but: - how do things like HDR, color-depth, and GPU-scaling affect fps and latency? - what the heck is "low-latency mode" .. does it have any different effect when running games in borderless-window mode vs fullscreen-exclusive mode

But games use UDP and not TCP which has Nagle's algorithm disabled already. Also you would only be disabling it for the packets you send. Not the ones you receive from your opponents so you still wouldn't see a difference.

One setting in games to look for is to play in fullscreen exclusive instead of windowed fullscreen. Fullscreen exclusive is usually less demanding, while windowed fullscreen could be better if you need to alt-tab alot and have any overlays in the game.

The amount of people I know that don’t go into windows settings and change the refresh rate to suit their monitor

I'd really like a similar videos, but for stuff you should change in the BIOS/UEFI Settings for a new PC. Stuff like: Enable XMP/EXPO, Enable ReBar, Maybe adjusting power limits for intel CPUs, Maybe some more nieche settings. idk. It'd be also great to have an example for where to find each setting in the most common Motherboard vendor UIs (MSI, Gigabyte ...) Every time I setup a new PC I struggle to remember everything.

ALT+F4 speeds up just about every game for me. I try to hit it during really important moments for maximum effect.

So, I've got this old 14 core xeon workstation with 128gb of ram and I use it for playing games and keeping track of like 20-30 chrome tabs ata a time and always used to see call kinds of weird hitching with the internet. I just tried the registry trick you mentioned and my latency has been smooth as butter ever since. Since I have more ram and cores than I'd ever know what to do with, I probably would see little to no benefit to using Nagle's algorithm and would only experience any costs. Thanks for the tip!

Can’t believe they didn’t mention to turn off game DVR as thats the biggest fps increase from windows settings

I had a problem at work that I solved yesterday by turning off game mode. I’m a software developer, and my laptop has just enough RAM to run Docker containers, WSL, VScode, and a browser or several browsers. On a new laptop, I would periodically experience random slowdowns with some windows freezing, becoming unresponsive, or slowing down significantly. It seems so far that game mode being on by default was the issue. With users in general being more prone to opening a larger amount of apps at the same time, I’m surprised that it comes on by default instead of showing up like a recommendation maybe in the system notifications when you start playing a game

Game mode doesn't work I've still had notifications popup and wouldn't go away until I press the x to dismiss this has happened to me an uncountable amount of times now.

1:00 but what if I randomly need one of the 200+ tabs I have opened while gaming…?

The thumbnail with Linus telling you to delete system32 is most Linus thing I've seen

It's baffling to me that the mouse acceleration setting is still the default option, and has such a misleading name, arguably it does the exact opposite of "enhance pointer precision". If you want to get the mouse around the screen more quickly, just use higher DPI / sensitivity.

Bro thank you so much, I keep missing my hits in MC, and now I know why 😂😂

Clean your PCs vents because heat saps performance. Use fullscreen mode, disable v-sync and motion blur. Adjust settings based on your computer specs, texture sizes, foliage need gpu memory and cpu to decompress, these settings affect loading time. Model complexity, FOV, anti-aliasing and most other settings need raw GPU power. Enable FSR or DLSS if the game supports it. If the game doesn't run well, try a lower resolution, 720p high is much easier to render then 1080p medium. 720p with 2x anti-aliasing is more pixels then 1080p without AA, so get to your native resolution before enabling AA. Open task manager - startup, disable everything that you don't use every time you use your computer.

thanks. this helps

I recently reset my pc. I completely forgot about enhanced pointer precision. Thank you, gonna give the recommendation with the registry editor a try.

I recommend disabling Nahimic on MSI motherboards/laptops. In some games (e.g., CONTROL), it makes launching the .exe impossible.

Wheres the LTT Spinning Disk shirt, I can’t find it on the website.

hey techquickie video idea here: make a compilation of forum resources for obscure computer things i remember tons of forums from the late 90s to the early 2010s which had tons of information about anything such as RMA or per game per gpu nvidia "developer" level settings or even very niche information like the best ergonomic controller button mapping for the best layout this library isn't limited to PCs alone but all kinds of hardware, its even bigger than all the obscure info in KZfaq believe it or not, a library of babel ! people discuss and collect all kinds of information enriching the internet this deserves a giant video, do it.

The Game Mode reminds me of back in the Win98 era. I had a computer that was getting way old at the time, and playing some games was not as fun as it could have been. The original Diablo was one of those. Yes, original Diablo got laggy on my machine, so underpowered was it. Well thing is I was also very much an enthusiast of LiteStep, a Desktop replacement that was incredibly customizable and that could be a lot lighter than the regular desktop. Early on it was a either/or situation and you changed the desktop loaded by editing system.ini, if I remember correctly. However as people got tired of this someone created a desktop selector that would put up a selection menu when windows were starting and in you didn't do a selection within a time limit it would start whatever desktop environment you had marked as default. Well Diablo was still a bit laggy, so I looked at the desktop environment selector, had a thought and added Diablo to the .inf file. And wouldn't you know, it ran so smooth when there weren't a desktop loaded with all the processes and memory they would take up, but just the game. This actually worked on Windows XP too. Though I was giving up on the custom desktop environment and used it less and less by that time. And the machine I had built by then was a monster, at least for half a year or so... Still, even today I sometimes I feel it would be nice to just log out, close all non essential services and processes and then log back in but directly into a game instead of having explorer.exe and all the crap it loads to server up the desktop hovering in the background sucking up CPU cycles and system RAM when all I want to do is play a game. And that's me on a machine with pretty good specs. For low spec or budget gamers that would probably make life a lot better.

this was such an informative video. could you make a video about other cool things to do with your computer?

I downloaded black desert and let it do changes to my pc and now my screen looks like picxels what do i do

Riley’s disk drive shirt looks like it’s ‘Star Wars Kilo Ren edition’ 😂

You all should make videos with benchmarks for different settings with different gpus. best amd/best nvidia settings.. best low budget gpu settings both nvidia/amd.

I feel personally called out here… I’m a developer, leave my 1458 tabs alone!

I would probably put a little more elbow grease into research next time to double check things. Regedit hack will not only does nothing for UDP packets which most multiplayer games use, it could even reduce performance or increase network latency due to other processes now being less efficient and having to send more TCP packets congesting the network. Most PC games released in the last 10-15 years use raw mouse input rather than getting that input information through Windows, so that setting will not have any impact most of the time, but better safe than sorry I guess. The rest are probably fine and can probably edge out a few frames here and there. Tho the one about animations will just make your normal use look clunky and have no effect will in game. Just bc careful when giving out regedit tips bc these can have a disastrous impact.

Aye that last tip was massive. Plz more like that!

Auto hdr is truly wonderful. Ever better when you use the HDR calibration app in the windows store.

I remember my aunt once used my pc and she found my mouse really weird to use, turns out it’s because I have mouse acceleration off and she isn’t used to that :)

The ping SHOWED in Wow got halved with TCPACK 1 setting, but did it really help?

Well shoot, this just helped me actually utilize my displays HDR. It always looked like absolute rubbish until I found the calibration in that same submenu

Last i read about "game mode" was to just disable it as it messes with most games. I have it disabled but ill try it again.

Hi. I've been watching your videos for a long time and am a big fan. Today I was watching a different tutorial about increasing PC performance and it mentioned going to system config/Boot/Advanced Settings and I changed the number of Processors from 1 to 16 (I have an 5700g) I then rebooted my PC and everything absolutely stopped working. It took about 10 mins to boot up and is now really slow. I set the number of processors back but nothing changed. I hope someone can help me with this.

What about GPU accelerated task scheduling?

FYI to others, the honks you hear at 0:29 and 0:31 are in the video, NOT someone outside your house trying to get your attention.

Just thinking yeah we know all about these annnnnd I was wrong. Nice video! Totally love learning new things like this. It's like finding money in the laundry :))

do an updated guide of things to do after you build a new machine and do a new instal please

I use high performance energy power plan, and edited to the CPU Minimum and Maximum of 100%, this makes CPU goes maximum frequency if thermals allow. I am rocking a Noctua NH-D15s with a R7 5800X3D and its fine, I got, 4.2 Ghz average +- .1 sustained

thanks linus!

I just have Windows Update disabled. I update on my terms, not Microsoft's.

Ugh disabling Enhance Pointer Precision was like the opposite of putting on glasses for the first time. It feels so erratic and quick now, I'll have to get used to it I guess?

Most games use raw-input nowadays which bypasses enhanced pointer precision, allowing an accelerated cursor in your desktop with a constant cursor in-game.

'It prevents Windows Update from taking system resources, which can result in more framerate!' Video of Windows Update shows the progress bar clearly lagging

I have windows 11 home on my gaming pc does that mean anything. By that I mean the home part

1:08 Oi leave me and my 50+ tabs Alone

ok, i'll admit, i was dumb and young and didn't know about computers, i deleted system 32, i learned my lesson real fast

I'm surprised they did not mention Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling. Turning this on has helped me a lot, especially when running multiple programs at once.

Idk but disabling game mode gave me more fps

Lol I remember setting those registry entries to get a better ping in Minecraft. Fun times.

we would like to see same video but for the bios.

Would love a video on CSM vs UEFI in a BIOS. Thanks!

Game mode causes stutter for me, even when upgrading to 5800X3D from ryzen 1600 and new windows 10 install.

I heard about TechQuickie from previous LTT videos but didn't know that it was basically a "tech tips for dummies" type thing. Love it!

Turn of the "Memory integrity" checkbox in "Core isolation" in "Device security" I don't know why, but it helps my pc a bit

one issue with auto hdr is it isnt available on windows 10, at least not my current install which is the latest of the consumer version.

Disabling Steam Overlay is a big one if you have a 6 core CPU (i.e. AMD Ryzen 5), on my RTX 4070 + R5 5600 rig I saw a jump from 45-70 FPS all the way to 80-130 FPS in Cyberpunk 2077.

I have been watching this channel since 10 years ago, and now I just Subscribed finally after all those years. :) I hope everyone have a good day always! 😃

You could do a similar video for audio recording and video work.

One thing I've been doing in W11 is to divert non-gaming apps to my APU, though I haven't run many before and after benchmarks. First, use Process Explorer to view GPU usage and collect the file path by View > Select Columns > Process GPU > (select as per your preferences) > Sort by GPU Committed > Right-click process, Properties > Copy Path Then go to Settings > Display > Graphics > Add an app > Browse > Paste > Options > Specific GPU > select your APU/IGPU.

*runs rm -rf /system32* rm -rf: no such file or directory. Me: oh, that's right, I'm on Linux....

Most games captures mouse input "directly" to circumvent windows' pointer acceleration (also to reduce latency), so changing that option will only make doing general desktop tasks worse

I made my computer faster by adding wheels and a motor, gonna drag race it later

Does "Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling" have a benefit?

Thanks

I laughed so hard because you got me dead to rights at 1:02😂😂😂 i be having 84 things open LOL i do have 32gb Ram tho ;)

Great tips...

Laptop user here, Putting the Battery mode to "Best Performance" Mode, did bumped up the FPS noticeably, But I'd recommend an AC Adapter plugged in all the time while gaming, since gaming on battery is not the best idea ;-; Plus Using AC Adapter while gaming does improved the FPS (For me atleast)

i thought that was a horn honking from outside

Always entertainingly comical. Great ending!

A new way is to use Microsoft pc manager note: it is in public beta but it works really good

Auto HDR is now under graphics settings inside windows settings

bring back the old control panal, so much better than setting menu

I did not know about this. Learn somethin new every day hot damn. Thanks Riley and tech mf quickie

good stuff

Changing the task split threshold

Or just add more RGB. That gives at least 30% increase

0:30 turns on game mode, still has HDR flickering becuse auto HDR gets confused when I unlock an achievement on Xbox.... also, steam achievements do not have this same issue 2:38

I just deleted system 23 what was supposed to happen I'm not sure

I wouldn't expect you guys to make a video like this 😥

Start blinking immediately after “Nagle’s algorithm” text disappears. You will still see it

Why is this on Techlinked and not on the new gaming channel?

[00:29] bro i went to chech the door cus them notifications sounding like a prius honking T~T

That you have to go to settings, to this, to that, to this, to that menu to get TO those effects options is OBSCENE. Damn could they bury that any deeper if they tried without just removing the options entirely?!

Quick tip before anyone turns on Game Mode: I have found that Game Mode really screws with a lot of games for some reason, and causes lag spikes.

Never, never tinker with registry unless you know what you're doing.

Using the wrapper DXVK for DX9-11 games might improve general performance or 1%performance in several cases, even if you are playing on Windows. According to some, anti-tracking scripts/programs might improve general performance by disabling unnecessary telemetry crap Windows does in the background

Nagle's algorithm i had to see the subtitlesssss lmao

I guess the last one will help on wifi on lapi

Delete the teddy bear virus! 😂 Who remembers that prank for "performance enhancement"

Cool !

So i could go into game mode so windows doesn't hog up resources. or I can install Linux and my OS will not hog resources by default.

I read the title of this video as: “Changes to the Settings app for gaming are coming from Microsoft.”

Probably the best thing that helped me with my gaming was buying a PS5. Now i don't need anything better than a 1660 because I have a good ol console.

Here's a tip, at least for modern AMD CPU users, not entirely sure about older AMD or Intel, but stick with the balanced power plan. I've seen a lot of videos where they tell you to choose the high performance power plan, but it can actually be worse because it creates much more heat than the performance gain, and can thermal throttle your PC. There's no difference between the Ryzen and Windows balanced power plan for the newest AMD CPUs as far as I'm aware, I would probably still choose the Ryzen one though.

1:28 I don’t know why Game mode doesn’t have this option as default. I always wish they did.