Beginner tips before you start NTE — mobile side

This started as a small annoyance and turned into a proper rabbit hole. I do not want to sink more time or money into it before I understand what I am optimising for.

I got it working once and then could not repeat it, which is the frustrating part. Would rather learn the right way now than build a bad habit.

From experience, the trick is to change one thing at a time and actually note the result before touching anything else.

Not the answer you want, but ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

Report back once you have tried it.

This comes up a lot, so: the difference is real but small enough that you may not notice it while playing.

Let us know which part worked.

Quick correction to the above: it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

Only partly related, but the difference is real but small enough that you may not notice it while playing.

Same boat here. the wiki number is theoretical; real results are always a bit lower.

That fixed it for me, at least.

Counterpoint: that behaviour is intentional, even though it is poorly explained in-game.

Had the exact same issue. keep a note of what you changed, otherwise you cannot undo it cleanly later.

Let us know which part worked.

Counterpoint: the trick is to change one thing at a time and actually note the result before touching anything else.

Same boat here. the wiki number is theoretical; real results are always a bit lower.

Slightly different take — this changed for me after the last patch, so older threads may steer you wrong.

Depends on your setup, but broadly the community guide covers this better than I can, but the summary is to prioritise the basics first.

Adding to the above: it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

That fixed it for me, at least.

The usual fix here is measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.