🎮 Improve Gaming Performance

Last updated: December 22, 2025

Get more FPS: turn on Game Mode, cut startup programs, update drivers, put games on an SSD, tune memory and BIOS settings, and overclock the GPU safely.

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What this helps with

What to expect: Medium difficulty • usually about 30-45 minutes.

This is one of 64 Gaming & Entertainment fixes in the WindowsHelper library. The full step-by-step fix for this is in the WindowsHelper app.

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