Tips, Tricks Your PC Gaming Performance

Tips, Tricks  Your PC Gaming Performance

1.Optimise Games Using Gaming Evolved Or GeForce Experience

If you're the proud owner of a gaming rig, then you're in all probability rocking either an AMD Radeon or Nvidia GeForce graphics card. This means you can take advantage of AMD Gaming Evolved or GeForce Experience to quickly and automatically optimise your games' graphics towards performance or quality.. To do this, simply download and install Gaming Evolved or GeForce Experience. Open whichever of the two programs you installed, then let it sync with your games library. After that: If you're using Gaming Evolved click Library at the top, click the game you want to optimise from the left-hand pane, then use the slider to choose whether you want the game geared towards performance or quality. The slider will recommend a particular setting depending on the specs of your PC. If you're using GeForce Experience click Games at the top left, click the game you want to optimise in the left-hand pane. Next, under the table of graphics settings in the middle, click the cog icon and use the slider to decide whether you want to optimise towards speed or performance. When you're done, click Apply.

2.If You Don't Have An SSD, Buy An SSD

Now, I'm not planning for this list to turn into a set of instructions telling you that the only way to speed up your PC is to just upgrade every component inside it. However, I'm prepared to make an exception with the SSD on account of how much it's improved my PC and gaming life. An SSD (Solid State Drive) is a relatively cheap purchase (you can pick a decent one up for under $80), which drastically increases loading times on your PC. Windows will boot in a matter of seconds, loading times in games will be noticeably quicker, and it's particularly handy for open-world games - where it can help reduce slowdown or 'hitching' when exploring the world. Because an SSD doesn't rely on mechanical components, it never needs to be defragged, and it's also completely silent - no crunching or grinding like your old SATA drive. If there is such a thing as a miracle PC component, it's this one.

3.Monitor Your PC Temperature

If you only recently made the switch to PC after years of playing on consoles, you should be aware that your PC's going to be more high-maintenance, but treat it well and it will reward you with gaming performance like you've never experienced before. During game sessions you're going to need to track your CPU (processor) and GPU (graphics card) temperature if want to get the best performance; if your temperatures are too high, your graphics card might start 'throttling' and reducing clock speeds. A great program to monitor your PC temperature is MSI Afterburner, which lets you keep track of and tweak components like fans, CPU and GPU. When you install Afterburner, make sure to install RivaTuner as well when the option appears. Once you've done this: Go to Settings (cog icon, if you have the same weird 90s-futuristic interface as me) > Monitoring tab Select GPU temperature from the list, then tick the Show in On-Screen Display box. Do the same for CPU temperature and Framerate Click the On-Screen Display tab, select a button to Toggle On-Screen Display, then click OK. Next time you run a game, make sure Afterburner is running in the background, then use the button you selected to toggle the on-screen display So what are reasonable temperatures? When you're not running games, both your CPU and GPU should be running no higher than 50-60C. As a general guideline, under maximum strain your GPU shouldn't be hotter than 85C at most, while your CPU should be no higher than around 70C.