How to Optimize Low-end PC for Gaming?

Gaming on a low-end PC may not deliver you the satisfaction that a Gaming PC does, but here are few optimizations which kinda does half of the job. These optimizations can at least ensure you playable FPS. Meanwhile, you may experience a bit degraded quality of the visuals, that’s because of the optimizations. High shadow settings, overall high graphics settings, including features like V-sync drastically loads the system overall, resulting in thermal throttling, FPS drop, and other problems if your system is not powerful enough. People consider using SSD, similar fast storage solutions to eliminate the FPS drop, but the role of an SSD in a game is just to load It faster, without impacting the gameplay.

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Upgrading your components can help, but it’ll need a good amount of money. Alternatively, tweaking your computer, overclocking it, does a small help, at least it can be playable. This Guide will help you understand and apply tweaks, which will squeeze out every single drop out of your system.

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Turn on System Ultimate Performance Mode.

By default your computer runs on the Balanced power consumption program, which can be changed via the Control Panel, the balanced program allows the system to use energy, as per requirements, which directly involves the components, like Storage, Graphics card, etc. The ultimate performance program allows the system to constantly run on high power, meanwhile delivering increased performance.

• Hit start, type CMD.
• Right-click on CMD and run it as administrator.
• Paste this code and hit enter.

powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61

• Hit Windows button+I, Click on the System option.
• Navigate to the Power and Sleep option, click the Additional Power settings option on the bottom extreme right.

Switch Graphics settings to Performance mode from quality mode.

• Right-click anywhere on the desktop screen.
• Select Intel Graphics properties/Nvidia control panel/AMD control panel.
• Navigate to your graphics properties until you see something like Graphics mode/Graphics processing/Global graphics.
• Change your default settings to performance.

By default, Graphics settings are set to either balance or quality mode. This setting can be changed by navigating to the graphics driver properties or its control Panel, Intel users can right-click on the desktop to change the graphics properties to performance. Nvidia and AMD users can follow the same process, after clicking on the Nvidia or AMD control panel.

• Right-click on your taskbar.
• Click on Task Manager.
• Click on more details, find out unnecessary applications, like Google Chrome.
• Right-click on the application, click end task.

Turn off unnecessary applications.

Right after you turn on your computer, many apps start with the system start-up, some are necessary for the system, while others are not. Turning off applications will free up more RAM, ultimately resulting in increased game performance.

• Hit Windows+D after you run a game, run the task manager.
• Right-click on the game application, select Go to details.

Change the game’s priority to High!

After you launch a game, its priority is set to balance or normal by default. Switching it to high priority after launching the game will ensure that the system will run the program giving it the highest priority. In most cases, this helps to get more FPS out of the system.

• After you’ve launched a game, navigate to its graphics settings.
• select the resolution option and change it to a low preset.
• Find shadow, and other graphics-related detail settings, lower the settings.
• You can try reducing the direct X version in the game, if available.

Lower Screen Resolution, Shadow, and other settings in Game.

Effects like shadow, reflection, high details use a massive amount of power, low-end PCs aren’t capable of handling all of the tasks at once. Turning off Shadows and other high graphics-related settings will degrade the visuals of course, but it will make the game much smoother.

• Head over to Intel graphics properties/Nvidia control panel/AMD Radeon settings.
• Navigate to the update section, update your driver.

Update Graphics drivers.

Latest Graphics driver updates can completely change your gaming experience. Updates include the latest version of the driver, along with new features, fixes, optimization patches. These updates very often optimize the game compatibility.

These are the working tweaks, which can drastically improve your FPS, making the game run smooth.

Originally published at https://arenaoftech.com on April 10, 2021.