Doom Tower hard mode roster advice — follow-up

Finally worked this out, so here is the write-up I wish I had found. Everything I read suggests it should just work, and for me it very much does not.

Feel free to tell me I have missed something obvious.

Had the exact same issue. measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.

Not the answer you want, but that behaviour is intentional, even though it is poorly explained in-game.

Worth a shot before anything drastic.

I went through this last month. do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.

Short version: the defaults are conservative on purpose, so there is usually headroom to gain.

Only partly related, but nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

That fixed it for me, at least.

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

Let us know which part worked.

Not the answer you want, but the wiki number is theoretical; real results are always a bit lower.

Worth a shot before anything drastic.

The usual fix here is you get most of the benefit from the first adjustment; everything after that is marginal.

This is the bit people miss — if it only happens in one mode, that narrows it down considerably.

This is the bit people miss — that behaviour is intentional, even though it is poorly explained in-game.

Same boat here. worth testing on a second account to rule out something profile-specific.

From experience, ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

For what it is worth, keep a note of what you changed, otherwise you cannot undo it cleanly later.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

This is the bit people miss — the safe move is the reversible one — you can always undo it if it makes things worse.

From experience, give it a clean reinstall before assuming the hardware is at fault.

Same boat here. the trick is to change one thing at a time and actually note the result before touching anything else.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

Slightly different take — ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

Report back once you have tried it.