How to Optimize Windows 10 For GAMING & Performance in 2024 The Ultimate GUIDE (Updated)

yo what's up guys welcome back to the channel we're gonna be going over windows 10 settings for 2022. now last year i made a video that video is still relevant and it'll still work but this one is better and it's better for well just trust me that it is better i'm going to be adding a few more things a few more safety procedures too because some people are having issues with their boot time after the video while it helped most people people with low end pcs were struggling a bit so i'm going to help optimize both sides of the spectrum the high end and the low end now i can't even fathom how many views that video ended up getting i don't expect this video to get the same amount but that video is over a million views so that's absolutely crazy so we're gonna add more things make this one better and we're gonna keep it the same by keeping it short concise and no downloading you don't have to download a thing i don't like that so you don't have to download a thing again it's going to be short so let's get right into it to keep it that way so i want to start the same way we did last time and that is obviously by doing one thing and creating a restore point so hit here hit restore and hit create a restore point so click on this once you see this hit create go ahead and write a description so just say whatever you want and then hit create and just go through the process and that will be your restore point if anything ends up being wonky just reset to this restore point fix whatever is wonky and proceed with the video that's the safest way to do this for the people that didn't create restore points last time and had something wonky happen i'm sorry but just listen to this step and that wouldn't be a problem if you're looking for windows 11 keys or office keys then please go no further than b h this is an affiliate for the channel so i'd appreciate it a lot if you guys did uh buy your keys from them using the link down below that would help this channel out tremendously so thank you very much and eventually we're gonna get a windows 11 uh settings video as well so stay tuned for that whenever we do get windows 11. i haven't upgraded yet but i'm thinking about it it's getting a lot better and this is a good website to do it since it's only 15 bucks plus i have a 10 off for you guys down below so let's go ahead and start off by going into our settings so just hit on here and hit settings get into the settings app from there you want to hit system and you'll get sent to this screen so you'll see all this to the left and this is what you need to look for and go down to your storage settings now you'll see i haven't done anything with this from the last time i made the video so my files have gotten absolutely huge because i wanted to keep it like this so i could show you guys how to absolutely squash and clean up your entire disk space this is something that will create lag it'll create crashes these are the most important things whenever you're talking about smoothness in your game and just smoothness on your desktop so the easiest way to do this is obviously delete apps you don't need and stuff but go to temporary files and clear those out i did this actually yesterday so i'm sorry i did clear out some because my download file was too much and i was actually overwhelming it so just come here and remove all these files i only have 88 megabytes but it was like 10 gigabytes yesterday that's where i got that from but this isn't going to help you in the long run you're going to want to come up here you're going to turn this on you want to go configure storage sets or run it now so what you're going to want to do is have this set up for every week and what this is going to do is clear out temporary files and clean out your recycling bin often because even if you come up here and delete something like steam come up here and delete it right it's just going to a recycle bin so it's not actually getting deleted until you recycle it completely so that's what all this will do and you want to do the same thing down here because this is the recycling bin delay temporary files that my apps aren't using delete files in my my recycle bin if they have been out there for over 14 days that's how i have a setup all right now back to your settings come down here hit the bottom one is the about and go hit advanced system settings you'll be greeted with this page we're going to want to hit performance here wherever you see this and hit settings so you could do any of these settings adjust for best appearance to just for best performance let windows choose what's best for my computer etc but this is going to be things like what shows up so for example show shadows under mouse pointer show shadows under window show thumbnails instead of icons all these things that you can change now i only have one two three four on these are the ones that i like on there's other things that you could do some of them i don't really like like if you see how i'm doing this if you're on the standard it's gonna actually outline this entirely this is all for performance and smooth this is great for low end pcs and i have a decent computer and i still use it just because why not keep it simple now go hit advanced this is something we didn't cover last time and you want to choose how to allocate processor resources adjust for best performance of programs make sure that this is on program some computers default at background services if you're playing a game if you're watching a stream whatever it is whatever the primary program is whatever is open so if i had battlefield open for example it will primary that and it's going to allocate most of the resources to that now let's go into our power consumption mode so let's go power and you'll see edit power plan click on this and you will see this screen right here hit change advanced power settings this will show you all your power plans if you click on this you'll have balance high performance power saver ultimate performance these are at least the ones i have for my preset computer manufacturer you might just have balance if you just have balance maybe just keep it at that but you can also create a new one by going back into your settings hit power and sleep hit additional power settings and you will see this screen this is going to be preferred plans but you could hit here hit create a power plan and go through the process there now what's the difference between these that's something i didn't cover in the last video so balance this is something that is going to lower fluctuate your cpu usage more specifically your cpu speed whenever your computer needs it and reduce it when it isn't necessary this is the default it should be good most of the time high performance isn't necessarily going to give you better fps but what it does do is it makes sure that your wi-fi your disk drive all that stuff does not go into power saving mode which if you're playing a lower end fps like a cs go thing where you're getting really high fps or even siege for example you might go into a state where these things like wi-fi disk space etc go into a power savings mode that's the thing that this will prevent the high performance mode now balanced mode it doesn't prevent that but you're not always running your cpu at max usage so there's a there's pros and cons to this but i keep mine at high performance anyways once you click yours go back to the screen we were just at which was this one and now you should have the the correctly selected one now i want you to go here hit pci express open up this link state power management and have the settings turn off i also want you to come down here processor power management make sure that this click on this and make sure this says 100. maximum processor state should be at 100 as well so just have these two at 100 100. that's all we need for our power uh options just go ahead and hit ok and that should be good to go now i want to adjust our boot time per application and for launching your windows in general whenever you turn on your computer that boot time from black screen to where you're logging in and entering your pin or your password or whatever that's what we're going to be changing right here type in system it's system configuration and we're going to be doing this differently than the last time because we had some issues with the last time and i have found better ways to do this so you want to go to boot and advanced options so this is still fine if you go here and you hit number of processors you should have it at max that's still personally what i would do have it at your maximum number of processors otherwise you're not going to be using your computer cpu as it's meant to be used now here is where people fell into a issue because they had a low end pc and they were trying to copy what i was doing when i told them that they should not be the standard i believe is 30. 30 seconds from is your timeout now if you make this 10 your launch time should be pretty close to instantaneous i would not make this 10 unless you have a high end pc and not a super high end i have a mid-tier pc so mid to high but if you have a laptop or something like that do not bother make this 20 seconds you could turn it down from 30 but you're gonna want to keep testing it and whenever your computer crashes that's when you've gone too far but the problem is you need your restore points in line for anyone that complains about their computer giving a blue screen of death or anything like that if you did not create a restore point that is what you're gonna get so please before you try this do create a restore point but this is one of those ones that's absolutely worth it to test out 10 works really well for me i get instantaneous launches into all my games into whenever i turn my pc on it literally takes less than like three seconds which is absolutely incredible with these two settings this one and this one here's where you're gonna hit apply and it'll make you probably reset your computer and there you go now that we got the more complicated things out we're gonna go through the speed round is what i will call it first thing game mode game mode settings make sure that this is on just make sure that this is on amd for a while if you have an older amd actually probably won't benefit from game mode it might actually hurt you so test this for yourself but game mode usually works for everyone i want you to go into your services page hit services now go down to the s it might take a minute to get there but go down to your s's and then you're going to want to go find system main you could right click on this and hit stop before you do that though i want you to note that this is going to be good for people that aren't downloaded on an ssd if their windows 10 is not on an ssd do this if it's on a hard drive a standard hard drive do this it's going to slow down some of your launch time but what this is doing is pre-rendering basically pre-loading applications so that they launch faster so this is going to help out with high ram usage if you have high ram usage disable if you're on ssd don't touch now go ahead and hit this start menu again and type in focus and you'll see focus assist so here is where you could turn off all notifications so if you're trying to prevent messages pop-ups while you're playing while you're gaming while you're doing anything turn this off if you don't want them off entirely you could just have them turn off while you're playing a game when you're in a full screen mode whatever it is you could do it you could select how you want to do it or you could just have it so it's alarms only now go back and hit background and you'll see background apps click on background apps and make sure that this is off okay this is gonna let apps run in the background you don't want that so turn that off that's only gonna hurt your fps a lot next one go mouse mouse settings click on this hit additional mouse options click on pointers sorry pointer options and make sure that this enhanced pointer position is off you don't want that on that's good for that's good for standard uses of a computer like typing doing emails but for gaming that's awful it's kind of telling you where your mouse wants to go instead of going where you actually want to go so do that hit ok hit ok now your last option if all these still your pc still sucks nothing none of this really worked even after we cleaned out your files we did the game mode we did the optimizations and your computer still sucks what you could do is reinstall windows that's that's really your last resort because it'll clear out pretty much everything and you get to just pick which files that you want to keep probably a good time to upgrade to windows 11 at this point if you're gonna do that might as well just buy a new key i have the links down below for keys that are 10 off it's like 12 bucks for a key and you can update to windows 11 or even windows 10 by a new key but this is your last resort and that is exactly where we're going to end this video because hopefully you have improved boot times improved frame rate more specifically smoothness because realistically you're not going to get too much frame rate gain from this but you are going gonna gain a lot of smoothness within your game i hope you guys all enjoyed i'll see you in the next video in two days have a great day [Music]

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Length: 11min 12sec (672 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 16 2022