Reward tracker — how do you keep on top of them?

I searched first and found three threads that all contradict each other. The difference only becomes obvious once you look at the frame times rather than the average.

Thanks in advance to anyone who chips in.

In my testing, measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.

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

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

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, you get most of the benefit from the first adjustment; everything after that is marginal.

I went through this last month. verify the files before anything else; it catches more problems than people expect.

Adding to the above: measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.

Report back once you have tried it.

Worth checking first: nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

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

Others may have a cleaner method.

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

Worth checking first: measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.

Not the answer you want, but temperature is the usual culprit when performance degrades over a session.