Most of us today don’t just use Windows 10 for work, web browsing, and business. Others also use it for gaming. But how exactly would it be nice to use for gaming? In this article, we’ll show you how to Windows 10 Gaming Optimization for gaming.
UPDATE OPERATING SYSTEM
To improve the performance of your machine, ensure sure your operating system is up to date. Simply type Update into your taskbar search box. Make sure you download the newest update in your Check for updates system settings box and restart your PC after the download is complete. This will help you with performance concerns in any circumstance.
DEVICE MANAGER
Check to see if your drivers are also up to date. To do so, look for Device Manager and launch it.
You may increase your audio inputs and outputs, network adapters, USB connections, and many other things via your device management.
Make sure the driver for your primary device is up to date for each category. Simply double-click the device you’re using—in this instance, my headphones—and choose Update Driver from the Driver tab before choosing Automatically search for new driver software.
UPDATE GRAPHICS DRIVER
For NVIDIA users:
The GeForce Experience program is compatible with NVIDIA graphics hardware. Click here to install the program on your computer. When the download is finished, launch the program and select Download from the Drivers menu. This will download and install the most recent GPU update, which should just take a few minutes.
Individual game settings, which may also be altered from here, can be accessed via the Home tab. Simply choose Details for the game you want to play. You will be shown the current in-game settings as well as the ideal settings based on your hardware. When you pick Optimize, GeForce Experience will apply the suggested game settings.
NVIDIA CONTROL PANEL
Changing your NVIDIA control panel might be critical. To increase the game’s performance on your machine, tweak a few settings in your NVIDIA control panel. Right-click your desktop and select NVIDIA Control Panel to access your NVIDIA control panel. Navigate to Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings in your control panel.
Make sure to choose to Use the advanced 3D image settings and apply your adjustments in the Adjust Image Settings with Preview section.
Changes to the Manage 3D Settings page will have a significant influence on the performance of your GPU. If you can, activate Image Sharpening and set the sharpen value to 0.5, as well as the ignore film grain value to 0.17. You should also check the GPU scaling box if it’s accessible to you. This will allow you to utilize custom resolutions, particularly lower ones for games that don’t normally support them. Make the following changes to other settings:
- Effects of Ambient Occlusion on Performance
- Application Controlled Anisotropic Filtering
- FXAA Antialiasing is set to Off.
- Antialiasing – Gamma Correction should be enabled.
- Application-controlled antialiasing mode
- Transparency Antialiasing to Off
- CUDA GPUs to All
- Disable Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR)
- Set Low Latency Mode.
- When utilizing a machine that can run games at a reasonable frame rate, disable Max Framerate because you can cap your FPS in most in-game options anyhow.
- Turn off Multi-Frame Sampled AA.
- Your main GPU will be used for OpenGL rendering.
- To Prefer Maximum Performance, Use Power Management Mode.
- Set the preferred refresh rate to the highest available.
Shader Cache and Texture Filtering
– Anisotropic Sample Optimization should be enabled.
- Negative LOD bias for texture filtering
- Texture filtering – performance to quality/high performance
- ON trilinear optimization
- Threaded optimization is set to Auto.
- Disable Triple Buffering
- Disable V-sync.
- Pre-rendered virtual reality frames to 1
- Offset Variable Rate Super Sampling
GAME BAR
Your overall performance when playing games may be affected by several native Windows 10 settings. Make sure the Game Bar recording option is turned off, as it continually records your gameplay and voice. Enter Game Bar into your taskbar search to access the game bar system settings. Make sure the recording option is unchecked. Make careful to disable the background recording option in the Captures tab as well. These options will have no effect on your performance. If you wish to record your games, I recommend using OBS Studio, or an external capture card if your computer is slow.
TASK MANAGER
To decrease CPU use from other applications, I recommend stopping certain background apps that you don’t require while playing the game. Make cautious to only terminate applications that you know will not harm your operating system. You may also prohibit apps from running when the system boots up under the Startup tab.
Select Open Resource Monitor from the Performance tab.
Open the Processes with network activity section on the Network tab, and you will see every task that is utilizing your network connection after a few seconds. This might be due to a background browser, Steam, or a download bottlenecking your connection.
These programs will assist you in determining the source of network difficulties, and you may quickly terminate these processes if necessary.
DISABLE IN-GAME OVERLAYS & NOTIFICATIONS
Overlays from other programs should be disabled because they frequently create difficulties in-game and degrade performance. Typically, these are included with programs such as Geforce Experience, Discord, or Steam. Navigate to your settings in your Geforce Experience program and deactivate the overlay in the General tab.
Additionally, alerts from native programs may be turned off. Enter Notifications into your taskbar search to access your Notifications & Actions settings. You may block all notifications from applications and other senders, or you can pick which programs can send alerts by scrolling down the list and turning off the rest.
DNS SERVER
If nothing else has worked to resolve your network connection difficulties, we will modify your DNS server address. Use the Windows key + R key combination to open a dialogue window, then type Control and hit Enter.
Select your current network connection by going to Network and Internet, then Network and Sharing Centre. This box will appear, displaying some basic information about your connection.
Select Properties and then double-click on Internet Protocol Version 4. Select the option Use the following DNS server addresses and use 8.8.8.8 as the preferred DNS server and 8.8.4.4 as the alternate DNS server.
For many people, this resolves the issue of joining a server because these are Google’s official public DNS server addresses that are safe to use.
TEMPORARY FILES
Your hard disk may be clogged with unnecessary files. If these files are not correctly erased, they will cause latency. You may clear temporary files manually or use PC cleanup software such as CCleaner. These programs are typically the best option because they will maintain your hard disk clean for you. To delete your temporary files manually, type %temp% into your taskbar search and press enter.
All files in the folder should be selected and deleted. If you’ve never done this previously, it may take a few minutes in certain circumstances. Some files will almost certainly remain in your transient folder since they are still in use by your apps.
You should also clear your recycle bin to ensure that these files are entirely deleted.
