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Long-time lurker, first proper post. It seems to depend heavily on region, which nobody mentions anywhere.

Half the advice online is a year out of date, which is why I wanted a current thread. Feel free to tell me I have missed something obvious.

This comes up a lot, so: do not copy someone else’s config wholesale — start from defaults and adjust to your own setup.

This comes up a lot, so: the trick is to change one thing at a time and actually note the result before touching anything else.

The usual fix here is do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.

Let us know which part worked.

This comes up a lot, so: nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

For what it is worth, the wiki number is theoretical; real results are always a bit lower.

Depends on your setup, but broadly do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.

Agreed on most of this, except do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.

Only partly related, but keep a note of what you changed, otherwise you cannot undo it cleanly later.

For what it is worth, the wiki number is theoretical; real results are always a bit lower.

Worth a shot before anything drastic.

Only partly related, but it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

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

Others may have a cleaner method.

Short version: you get most of the benefit from the first adjustment; everything after that is marginal.