How to optimise your PC for gaming

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(Pocket-lint) — So you've purchased yourself a shiny new gaming PC or built yourself one from scratch and you're ready to start gaming. But just because you've got a fresh copy of Windows installed and your games downloaded doesn't mean your PC is necessarily running at its best. 

There are still a few things that you can do to optimise your PC for an even better gaming experience. Just a few tweaks to Windows settings can make all the difference.

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We've written before about how to get more FPS out of your graphics card and gaming machine, but here we're talking about further optimising it for the gaming edge. 

Windows is already conveniently built for gaming. Microsoft knows PC users love playing games. This is why Game Pass is so popular. As standard though Windows still needs some tweaks to optimise performance, one of these includes game mode. This is a setting which manages system resources for better performance when playing. 

To turn on Game Mode follow these steps:

Optimising your PC for gaming is great, you know what else is great? Not being interrupted while you play. Windows has a setting to disable notifications at specific times or when certain things are happening. So no more pesky pop-ups to ruin your fun. 

To access the settings follow these steps:

Alternatively, you can select specific times of day for the do not disturb mode to turn on. This works if you know you're always gaming in the evening for example. Just set the time and enjoy blissful notification-free gaming.

Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling allows your machine to optimise performance and reduce latency. If you have the right hardware (a recent graphics card) and are running Windows 10 or 11 then you can easily turn this setting on, much