Best value GPU right now for Old School RuneScape?

Apologies if this has been covered — the older threads are all locked. The numbers look fine on paper, but it feels noticeably worse in practice.

It seems to depend heavily on region, which nobody mentions anywhere. Hopefully this saves someone else the afternoon it cost me.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, verify the files before anything else; it catches more problems than people expect.

Worth a shot before anything drastic.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

Worth a shot before anything drastic.

For what it is worth, measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.

Depends on your setup, but broadly it depends heavily on your specific setup, so take any single number with a grain of salt.

Slightly different take — temperature is the usual culprit when performance degrades over a session.

Had the exact same issue. you get most of the benefit from the first adjustment; everything after that is marginal.

Others may have a cleaner method.

This comes up a lot, so: it depends heavily on your specific setup, so take any single number with a grain of salt.

Same boat here. region and server load matter more than most guides acknowledge.

Let us know which part worked.

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

For what it is worth, the difference is real but small enough that you may not notice it while playing.

Quick correction to the above: the wiki number is theoretical; real results are always a bit lower.

That fixed it for me, at least.

Short version: worth testing on a second account to rule out something profile-specific.

This comes up a lot, so: verify the files before anything else; it catches more problems than people expect.