Hey you and welcome my name is Mr. Berry and this whole video I'm going to show you how to optimize
your Windows computer for games and I'm going to be taking you actually step by step on how
to do this here in just a moment but before we get into that we'd like to remind everyone to
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to help as many people as we can and I used to show this trick that we're going to be doing here
in my a-plusification class and whenever anyone would ask hey Mr Berry how do you optimize your
your computer your Windows machine so that it can be best running games this will should increase
your frames per second it should be increasing the performance of the games and the steps are
easy to do and if you need to you can actually go back and turn off some of these things or reverse
them because we do go in and we do things such as turn off background programs and you say well
now I'm going to be using my computer for work computer I'll need some of these things well guess
what they should open up automatically when you start that particular program but if they don't
you can go back to doing the exact same steps in reverse that you see here in the video to turn
on anything so you don't have to worry about over overclocking we're not touching overclocking we're
not downloading any apps because well you know viruses and all these steps can be reversed so if
you turn off something that you figure you really need the next time you use your community you can
always go back turn these on by following the same steps take your mouse click at the bottom here and
in the search box type in control panel it should be one of the top results there as you see on mine
it says Control Panel App click it and then we need to get into the first part of the control
panel so go ahead and click there at the very top so that you're in the base now click on hardware
and sound click that and now we're in a area where we have power options click on power options
and then power options opens up now click on high performance there so that's option is the
one that we want but then we're going to go into change plan settings go and
click that and now go into change Advanced plan settings so go ahead and click that
and then this window comes up you see many different options here what we're
going to do is scroll down this list and look for wireless adapter settings
there will be a little plus mark on it click that plus Mark and then click on the power savings mode
and that shows up more and that needs to be set to maximum performance now let's scroll down a little
bit more to PCI Express that's our video card settings by the way click on that plus and make
sure that's on off so copy these two settings so it's maximum performance on the wireless adapter
settings and your PCI Express should be off for the link state power management next is
the processor power management we have the minimum processor State go ahead and choose some number
between 80 and 85 it may have it at a hundred but you don't want to have your processor just
sitting idle at a hundred percent all the time so the minimum process state that could be changed to
any number between 80 and 85 and then the maximum should be at a hundred so I can copy those numbers
in and then you'll click on apply and okay now you can click on the back arrow key to get back into
the power options here just make sure that you have selected the high performance as your plan
that you want to be using with this computer okay let's go ahead and click off this and then we're
going to go back down to the bottom of our screen and we're going to key in system configuration
and you should see the sys configuration app at the very top let's go ahead and click that one
and it comes up in the small screen now click on the boot Tab and you'll see the options for boot
now you don't have to copy all of these because this is specific for my machine
but on the timeout you could set that down to about 10 seconds another option is no GUI or
no GUI boot that can be an option on some machines where that can be on or off there
now we're going to click on Advanced options and here we are on the boot Advanced options
what we're going to do is notice it says number of processors mine is at four but we want to make
sure that we're using all of our processors so I'm going to show you how to find out how many
processors working on your machine so go down to the bottom of your screen right click it
and then go down to task manager and now click on performance now once you've clicked on performance
go in and notice it says logical processors right here and for my number it's four on yours it may
be 2 4 8 16 or even 32 or more and once you know that number go ahead and click that off and then
choose that highest number there for the number of processors again there I chose four because
that's what my logical processor count was at go ahead and click on OK and close off this window
now we're going to go on to services and now click on hide all Microsoft services and basically all
these can be unchecked now you'll notice that some of mine are on and some of mine are off
please notice on the last column it shows the date when it was disabled so I have been disabling some
of these and kind of experimenting on which ones I need which ones I don't need and it looks like
that's the best for my computer on yours you can kind of experiment go with turning them off the
ones I would definitely leave on is if you have things related to your chip so if you have Intel
or Nvidia those surfaces should be on that way you can best use your machine once you have other
things turned off then you can go in and click on apply and okay but like I said go through the
list make sure that your Intel processor or your AMD processor items are turned on your video card
items are turned on and your input devices so if you have a microphone that you use with your
game make sure that's on if you have a mouse or other things that the software specific for
your particular gaming mouse or gaming keyboard it's best to leave those on after you have a good
option there of the things that you don't need turned off or disabled go ahead and click on apply
and where again you are looking at the date on the last column so you can experiment go
back and forth turning off and turning on different things until you have the the
best performance on your machine once you have that go ahead and let's click on OK
this exit without restart because we don't restart our computer at this time take your
mouse go to the bottom and then key in background apps and as you're typing it in it should come up
and go in this click on background apps now right when you see yours it'll probably look like this
right with all of these uh dozens of different applications turned on and that means when you're
playing your game when you're doing other things these applications are running in the background
all of the time they may be checking for messages they may be doing other things and we don't want
them doing that because that's going to be basically taking away some of our performance
correct so go ahead at the very top there versus let these apps run in the background click that
where it's on off and now they're all grayed out so now what we're going to do is click on the X
the small exit at the very top there and close this off now we fall back down to the desktop
next we're going to be working with the Cortana app settings so at the very bottom
type in Cortana and you notice it says Cortana at the top this time I'm going to go into the
app settings over on the right hand side so go ahead and click on app settings for Katana and
it comes up make sure all of these are turned off so your microphone or any other things that
you have like runs at the login or any of the other settings everything should be turned off
and that way Cortana is not running in the background because why well you're playing
a game and you don't want her to be basically trying to listen in to see if she's needed at
any moment so make sure all of those are off and then go ahead and click on close
now we'll configure startup so at the bottom click in and type in startup apps and then
this startup the startup apps here and you'll see all of these different apps
you want to turn off everything that you don't want starting up with your computer and I've gone
in there and I've turned off a number of different things but I've left on anything to do with my
performance so if it has something to do with my video card or my processor then I leave those on
and you can basically turn off anything else I did happen to leave on my 360 towards security
but if you're if you feel that you don't need it you can turn that off just for the game as well
again make sure that you have things like the Microsoft Edge or the Google Chrome all
those should be off so they're not running in the background while you're playing your game
and after you've gone through the list you can now click on the X to close this app off
and I would like to mention something here too that you should be turning off your computer
once a day like when you go to sleep or something overnight it should be turned off completely and
that really helps the performance if you just turn it off completely every day once a day now for
this next step go ahead and click at the bottom of our screen and then key in the word run are you
in and it should come up here where it says run go and click on that run app and you'll see it coming
up here at Key in percentage temp percentage just as you see here and then click on OK
now you'll see the temporary folder open up now these are temporary files and folders
that are actually saved or stored on your computer we don't need those
and so we can actually go in and highlight any of these or all of them and then delete them now
one easy way to do this is to click on one and then use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl a on your
keyboard that highlights all of them as you see here then right click it and then select delete
and then it will begin deleting these as you see it's doing now on any of these
are actually being used go ahead and click on skip so it will skip those and not delete the
ones that the computer is actually using which which is kind of important right so again you
might have to do that multiple times there on Skip and then eventually it takes those
out and on my machine it took out you know gigabytes of temporary folders and files that
really weren't being used by my current machine there so then we click on X and close that off
now the next thing that we want to do is go down here and then type in disk cleanup and you'll see
it as an app at the very top go ahead and click on disk cleanup this of course is going to clean
up our disk and our C drive particularly so click on OK you'll see this window and this is the disk
cleanup there for Drive C normally that's where we have the operating system all of these can be
checked off so notice that we have things such as the DirectX Shader or the recycle bin temporary
files all of those can be checked off it's okay make sure that you do not save files in your
recycle bin right we never do that so go ahead and go through the list you can check them off
it'll tell you how much space is actually being saved in each one you click on OK and after you
click on OK It'll ask you are you sure you want to permanently delete these files click on yes and
it will go in and begin deleting those temporary files from the C drive so this basically optimize
our C drive for us so it's fewer files there and everything gets a little bit faster when you don't
have to have those files there you could be doing other things such as defragging your hard drive
if you have the older hard disk drive but for solid state drives we do not defrag those and
another thing I would like to mention too is you could go in and update your video drivers
make sure you do have the newest drivers for your video card as that helps a great deal
hey there you go now you know how to optimize your computer specifically for games
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