Game Mode
Before touching anything, the app records how it was on your machine. On exit, on close, or after a crash, everything goes back.
10 in the free plan 37 Pro only 13 services paused 9 need a reboot to apply
Game Mode has 47 optimizations: 10 in the free plan and 37 Pro only. It pauses 13 Windows services, and 9 of the optimizations only take effect after a reboot.
Game Mode
Every item shows, inside the app, the effect it is expected to have, and every one reverts.
01
Suspends 13 Windows services picked from a safety database of 120 entries classified by risk. Background apps can be closed or frozen — overlays like Discord, Steam and OBS are never frozen, because that hangs the game itself.
02
System timer resolution at 0.5 ms, which cuts the delay between your input and the frame on screen. Raised priority for the game process, without pinning CPU affinity, which hurts performance on hybrid processors.
03
Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling, driver recovery timeout, composition layer out of the way, audio buffer and SSD power policy — all tuned for latency instead of power saving.
04
Interrupt moderation and Energy Efficient Ethernet on the physical adapter. Real adapters only, never VPN or virtual, and never restarting the interface, which would drop your connection mid-match.
You can flip it manually. Or let the app do it.
The question you were about to ask
Counting optimizations is easy: every registry key becomes an item, and a forum list yields three hundred in an afternoon. We implemented the famous ones, measured the effect, not the value written to the registry, and removed the ones that made worse what they promised. The 47 that remain are the ones that passed.
If the metric that mattered were the size of the list, ours would be bigger.
And the 47 are Game Mode, not the whole product: Pro also brings 109 catalogued pre-installed apps, 57 privacy controls, firewall auditing and seven disk tools. See what was removed, and why.
Four of them left the product for not working. The autopsy of each one is published, with the symptom that caused the removal.
The honest question
You can. Most of the 47 are registry keys and commands that are documented — and if you have ever run a forum script, you have already done half of them. The right question is not whether you can do it by hand. It is how you know it took effect.
What a script does
It writes the value and exits. It does not know what was there before, it does not undo anything when you close the game, and it cannot tell you whether the key had any effect — only that the write did not error. That is exactly how the Nagle tweak fooled our own verification screen: it read the registry instead of the effect, and reported “applied” for something that never took hold.
What Game Mode does
After applying, it goes back and reads the system again, item by
item. A service is checked by its Start value in the registry, not by
Get-Service — which reports trigger-started services as
“automatic” even when disabled. And whatever it cannot prove, it
labels differently.
The verification count
39
re-read from the system
32
registry keys checked
13
services read from the registry
8
leave no state to re-read
Those 8 are one-shot actions — flushing the DNS cache, closing a program, freeing memory. They ran, but they leave nothing in the system to check afterwards. The app marks them “applied”, not “in effect” — two different labels on screen, on purpose.
And there is the part no script solves: on activation the app records the value that was on your machine, and puts it back on exit — even after a crash. If the key did not exist before, it removes it instead of writing a default that was never yours. A script you copied does not know what your value was, because nobody wrote it down.
It is free, closes nothing and asks for no reboot. It is the low-risk way to feel the difference on your own machine.