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Windows automatically applies settings to your PC that are actively killing your FPS and adding a ton of input delay to everything you do.
A Windows tweak guide covering 10 settings that supposedly hurt FPS and input latency, including audio enhancements, telemetry, Xbox Game Bar, HAGS, and mouse acceleration, with step-by-step fixes.
Key Takeaways
- Several default Windows audio and background services can add latency and consume resources that affect gaming performance.
- Enabling HAGS via the registry is presented as beneficial for frame time consistency, based on the presenter's own benchmarks.
- Disabling Xbox Game Bar and telemetry services is recommended to reduce background overhead.
- Mouse acceleration should be disabled for consistent, one-to-one aim.
What the video covers
- Disabling audio enhancements on output and microphone devices is presented as a way to reduce audio latency and processing delay.
- Adjusting audio formats to 24-bit, 48,000 Hz and disabling exclusive mode are recommended for headphones, speakers, and microphones.
- Setting communications activity to 'do nothing' prevents Windows from altering audio when calls occur.
- Disabling the Connected User Experiences and Telemetry service via services.msc is suggested to free resources and limit data collection.
- Xbox Game Bar and its background recording/capture features are said to consume resources and add input delay, so the presenter recommends turning them off.
- Game Mode is recommended to remain enabled on Windows 11.
- OBS Replay Buffer is suggested as a less resource-demanding alternative for clipping gameplay.
- Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling (HAGS) is said to improve frame time consistency and reduce input delay; the presenter shows enabling it via the registry value HwSchMode set to 2.
- Windows mouse acceleration is criticized as causing inconsistent aim because cursor movement is not one-to-one with physical mouse movement.
- The video follows a numbered, step-by-step format with the presenter asking viewers to like, subscribe, and comment for future video ideas.
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Today, I'm going over 10 settings and showing you exactly how to fix them, all step by step.
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Now, let's get into it.
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Starting off with setting number one, audio enhancements.
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Windows applies audio processing effects to your sounds, which add latency to everything you hear, as well as a delay because it takes much longer to process the audio.
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So disabling these eliminates both of those factors.
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To do this, open your Windows settings, system, sound, and then we're going to scroll down to more sound settings.
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And right here, the first thing we're going to be doing, just to make this cleaner and easier to view, is right-clicking and unchecking "show disabled devices."
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Now go in here to any device that you don't use the audio for. We're going to disable this.
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And once you've done that for all of them, find your headphones and then double-click on them.
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Press advanced and make sure both of these boxes are unchecked.
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And this is set to 24-bit, 48,000 Hz, and press apply and okay.
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And then any other output audio devices you use, like your speakers or your monitor, do the same exact thing.
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You're going to check "disable all enhancements" right here.
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And then uncheck these as well, and press apply and okay.
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And then head over to recordings, and we're going to do the same exact thing but for your microphone.
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So double-click, head over to levels, and you can adjust this here if you need to.
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Head over to listen and make sure it's set to continue running when it's on battery power, and head over to advanced and do the same exact thing.
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Uncheck both of these exclusive modes and set it to 24-bit, 48,000 Hz.
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And finally, head over to communications and set it to do nothing.
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Then we're good for here.
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Number two, Windows telemetry.
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Microsoft runs a data collection service 24/7 in the background, reporting what you're doing on your PC back to their servers.
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So disabling this service frees up a bunch of resources and also stops Microsoft from collecting what you're doing on your computer.
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Press your Windows key plus R, type services.msc, and then find "Connected User Experiences and Telemetry," right-click, properties, disabled, and press apply and okay.
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Moving on to number three, Xbox Game Bar.
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This feature runs in the background of every game you play, recording and monitoring everything, even if you don't even use Xbox Game Bar.
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And just this setting here is a huge, huge setting that impacts both your gaming performance and FPS, as well as your latency to everything you do.
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So, head back over to your Windows settings again.
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Gaming, Game Bar, make sure both of these are unchecked.
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Captures, everything here is unchecked, like this.
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And then Game Mode, if you're on Windows 11, make sure this is checked.
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And now, just a tip, because I know some of you guys are going to comment, "Well, what if I use Xbox Game Bar? What am I going to use to clip my games?"
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I would highly recommend every single one of you switch over to OBS Replay Buffer, since it's less resource-demanding and just better to use overall.
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Now, setting number four, hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling.
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Despite what most people think about this setting, which is HAGS, disabling it will cause inconsistent frame times and add a bunch of input delay, because now your CPU is trying to process everything instead of offloading it onto your GPU.
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Now, some of you guys have this setting inside your Windows, like this, but as you can see, for me, it's not here.
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So, I'm going to be walking everyone through how to change the setting inside your Windows registry.
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So, now open up the Registry Editor, and I'm going to have this path shown on the screen.
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Now, just make sure to type it in, and then go here and find HwSchMode and set the value to 2 to enable the setting.
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Or if you want to disable it, which I wouldn't recommend, set the value to 1.
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But for the sake of this video and my benchmarks, enabling this setting is much better.
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So, that's what I'll be doing.
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Moving on to number five, mouse acceleration.
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This setting is enabled by default, which adjusts your cursor speed based on how fast you're actually moving your mouse.
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And this is probably one of the worst settings that Windows has, because it always results in inconsistent aim, since your mouse movements aren't one-to-one, and everything you do with your mouse is not going to be reputable or consistent.
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Let's head back to our Windows settings, and at the very top, search "mouse settings," just like this.
Topics:Windows optimizationFPS boostinput delayaudio enhancementsHAGSXbox Game Bartelemetrymouse accelerationgaming PC tweaksOBS Replay Buffer
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