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Tune my PC

Choose Gaming + Performance, Gaming + Quality, Creative work or Low power, review Hanki's plan and apply only the changes you approve.

Tune my PC is for a PC that works but could do more. Say what you want today, and Hanki reads your settings and shows a plan. Choosing a goal changes nothing by itself.

Tune my PC with Gaming + Performance chosen, and a plan with no changes needed and four steps for you
A plan on a PC that's already tuned (preview 0.19.0-rc.3).

The four choices

ChoiceFor
Gaming + PerformanceCompetitive games: lowest input lag, most frames.
Gaming + QualitySingle-player games: smooth, tear-free and sharp.
Creative workEditing, rendering and streaming.
Low powerCooler, quieter, longer battery.

For the gaming choices, Hanki also asks whether your display has G-SYNC or FreeSync, because Windows can't tell it. On NVIDIA, if G-SYNC is already on, Hanki answers for you. If you're not sure, V-Sync and frame caps are left alone.

Read the plan

Hanki reads your display, Windows, mouse, graphics driver, processor, memory and storage settings. The plan has two parts:

  • Changes Hanki can make, each shown before and after. Pick the ones you want.
  • Steps for you: things no app should change for you, such as BIOS settings (XMP or EXPO), in-game options, a laptop's MUX switch or a driver update.

On a PC that's already tuned, the plan says no changes are needed. That is a valid answer.

Apply and undo

  1. Select the changes you want and review them.
  2. Apply. Each change is saved in Recovery first, then checked by reading it back.
  3. Measure, if you like, with Launch and measure or the Monitor, and keep or undo the change.

A display-mode change, such as a higher refresh rate, has a 15-second keep-or-revert prompt.

What a plan can include

  • Highest refresh rate; V-Sync and a frame cap just below the refresh rate when adaptive sync is on
  • Game Mode, optimizations for windowed games, variable refresh rate, Game Bar background recording and mouse acceleration
  • NVIDIA settings such as Low Latency Mode, and per-game full clocks rather than a global maximum
  • AMD Radeon settings such as Anti-Lag, Chill and a frame-rate target (not yet tested on AMD hardware)
  • Windows power mode, maximum processor state and, on laptops, Energy saver
  • Steps for PCIe lanes, Resizable BAR, memory speed, games on hard disks, TRIM, graphics driver age, network cables, OBS encoders and color signal settings
  • Advice for each game from its latest Launch and measure run

Every rule and its sources are listed in Tune my PC: recommendations and sources.

What Tune my PC never does

No overclocking, no disabling security or Defender, no timer, BCDEdit, service, scheduler or network "tweaks", no standby-memory purging, no pagefile removal and no shader-cache clearing. Hanki explains why, in how Hanki decides.

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