How have system level tweaks boosted gaming performance optimization?

[StevenTJ]

Gaming performance optimization often focuses on in-game settings, but sometimes the biggest FPS boost comes from a Windows power plan tweak or disabling a specific telemetry service. What's a system-level change that gave you a noticeable improvement?

[VioletYW]

I swapped to a true high performance power plan and locked the cpu at 100 percent. No throttling just steady frames. It pulled a noticeable FPS bump in several titles. That lines up with gaming performance optimization 2025 trends