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Low stakes question, but it has been bugging me for weeks. What actually changed my results was slowing down and reading the tooltips properly instead of rushing.

Curious whether that matches what everyone else is seeing.

This comes up a lot, so: do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.

Same boat here. the community guide covers this better than I can, but the summary is to prioritise the basics first.

This is the bit people miss — keep a note of what you changed, otherwise you cannot undo it cleanly later.

Only partly related, but check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

Report back once you have tried it.

Same boat here. nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

This comes up a lot, so: temperature is the usual culprit when performance degrades over a session.

Same boat here. check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

This comes up a lot, so: check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

Worth a shot before anything drastic.

Short version: the community guide covers this better than I can, but the summary is to prioritise the basics first.

Slightly different take — the averages hide the problem; look at the one percent lows instead.

Short version: it depends heavily on your specific setup, so take any single number with a grain of salt.

This comes up a lot, so: region and server load matter more than most guides acknowledge.

Worth checking first: check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

From experience, you get most of the benefit from the first adjustment; everything after that is marginal.

Quick correction to the above: do not copy someone else’s config wholesale — start from defaults and adjust to your own setup.

This comes up a lot, so: measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.

That fixed it for me, at least.

Counterpoint: ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

Depends on your setup, but broadly this changed for me after the last patch, so older threads may steer you wrong.