Gaming Performance - RoboKiwi.com

Overview

These settings are aimed at reducing latency and increasing performance at the cost of sacrificing image and rendering quality.

Depending on the game you're playing, you may be able to increase the image and rendering quality without introducing latency or letting your framerate drop too much.

NVIDIA & G-SYNC

3D Settings > Manage 3D Settings

Ambient Occlusion: Off
Anisotropic filtering: Application-controlled or Off
Anti-aliasing - FXAA: Off
Anti-aliasing - Gamma correction: On/Off
Anti-aliasing - Mode: Application-controlled or Off
Anti-aliasing - Transparency: Off
DSR - Factors: Off
Low Latency Mode: Ultra
Max Frame Rate: Limit to 3 frames below the max refresh rate of your monitor
Monitor Technology: G-SYNC (if available)
Multi-Frame Sampled AA (MFAA): Off
Preferred refresh rate: Highest available
Texture filtering - Anisotropic sample optimization: On (set to Off if you see “shimmering on objects”)
Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias: Allow
Texture filtering - Quality: Performance
Texture filtering - Trilinear optimisation: On
Threaded optimisation: Auto
Triple buffering: Off
Vertical sync: Off
Virtual Reality pre-rendered frames: 1 (minimum). If CPU seems to be struggling, try setting to 2 and see if framerate is smoother without introducing input lag.

If you own a G-SYNC monitor, you can set the following so you don't see any tearing but at the cost of introducing some latency (not recommended):

Vertical sync: On
Lower Latency Mode: Ultra
In-game if available: NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency to On

Display > Change Resolution

Ensure the Refresh rate: is set to your highest possible Hz

Display > Set up G-SYNC

Tick Enable G-SYNC, G-SYNC Compatible
Then, choose either Enable for windowed and full screen mode (recommended) or Enable for full screen mode

Power and Sleep settings

Use the High Performance plan if possible
Check Processor Power Management
- Minimum processor state: 100%
- System cooling policy: Active
- Maximum processor state: 100%

If you want to use more efficient power settings, you can disable the core parking by using an application such as Park Control

In-Game

If your game supports it, set NVIDIA Reflex Low Latency to On / On + Boost. This is even more effective setting NVIDIA Ultra Low Latency (NULL) in the NVIDIA Control Panel, and will take precedence if enabled.
Always choose Fullscreen mode over Windows Full Screen or Windowed; windowed modes increase latency, sometimes over double the latency of full screen mode on lower refresh rates.
Disable Vertical Sync

Windows

Enable Gaming Mode by going to Settings > Gaming > Game Mode (this is normally on by default)
In System > Display > Graphics, you can ensure that your games are set to High Performance GPU mode.

Mouse

In Logitech G-HUB:

Set max polling rate Report Rate (Per Second) to 1000 Hz to reduce latency
Set the DPI to a feel that you like (I prefer a lower DPI like 750-800). This affects mouse sensitivity and is a personal preference, and does not impact system performance.

In Windows:

Bluetooth & Devices > Mouse
Consider leaving the Mouse pointer speed default to 10
Click Additional Mouse Settings to open the Mouse control panel
Go to Pointer Options and un-check Enhance pointer precision

Keyboard

If you wish to remap keys or shortcuts, you can use Keyboard Manager from Microsoft PowerToys

Disable CAPS LOCK

You can manually disable the CAPS LOCK key with a registry command, run from an elevated terminal:

reg add 'HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout' /f /t REG_BINARY /v 'Scancode Map' /d '00000000000000000200000000003A0000000000'

Or you can manually open regedit and edit the Scancode Map value under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout:

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
02 00 00 00 00 00 3A 00
00 00 00 00

Alternatively if you're uncomfortable with editing the registry, you can use SharpKeys to remap through the UI.

Special: Caps Lock map to Turn Key off then click Write to Registry