[Honkai: Star Rail] Handheld PCs for the same library — worth having?

Spent most of the weekend on this and I am still not sure I understand it. The community consensus seems to have shifted twice since I last played.

The in-game explanation and the actual behaviour do not appear to match. Thanks in advance to anyone who chips in.

Only partly related, but the defaults are conservative on purpose, so there is usually headroom to gain.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

For what it is worth, the trick is to change one thing at a time and actually note the result before touching anything else.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, it depends heavily on your specific setup, so take any single number with a grain of salt.

Slightly different take — it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

Let us know which part worked.

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

For what it is worth, ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

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

Quick correction to the above: do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.