What are you playing this week? (July)

Posting this mostly so the next person searching finds an answer. The default settings are clearly tuned for a different setup than mine.

Rolling back to the previous version made the problem disappear entirely. Corrections welcome, especially if I got a detail wrong.

Depends on your setup, but broadly measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.

The usual fix here is ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

From experience, the difference is real but small enough that you may not notice it while playing.

Worth a shot before anything drastic.

This is the bit people miss — it depends heavily on your specific setup, so take any single number with a grain of salt.

This is the bit people miss — the defaults are conservative on purpose, so there is usually headroom to gain.

Others may have a cleaner method.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, keep a note of what you changed, otherwise you cannot undo it cleanly later.

Others may have a cleaner method.

Counterpoint: the averages hide the problem; look at the one percent lows instead.

This is the bit people miss — give it a clean reinstall before assuming the hardware is at fault.

That fixed it for me, at least.

In my testing, the safe move is the reversible one — you can always undo it if it makes things worse.

Agreed on most of this, except give it a clean reinstall before assuming the hardware is at fault.

I went through this last month. region and server load matter more than most guides acknowledge.

Worth checking first: do not copy someone else’s config wholesale — start from defaults and adjust to your own setup.

Not the answer you want, but measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.

Report back once you have tried it.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, the wiki number is theoretical; real results are always a bit lower.

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

Adding to the above: nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

Counterpoint: the safe move is the reversible one — you can always undo it if it makes things worse.

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

Had the exact same issue. the defaults are conservative on purpose, so there is usually headroom to gain.