Compy Private beta · invite only

Know which PC tweaks actually help your rig.

Measured,
not promised.

Every optimizer promises speed. Compy proves what's true on your rig: it reads your actual hardware, grades the internet's favorite tweaks — real, placebo, or risky — and measures what actually changed. When a fix is real, you see the numbers. When it isn't, you see that too. Everything it changes, it can undo.

01per-rig

Reads your hardware

Verdicts are tailored to the PC in front of you — GPU, CPU, drives, display — never copied off a YouTube "best settings" list. If a tweak isn't for your rig, Compy says so.

02measured

Measures what changed

Frames, 1% lows, temps — before and after, on your own sessions. Real improvements get named loudly. No measurable change gets called exactly that.

03reversible

Keeps the receipt

Every change is snapshotted first and undoable later — exact prior state, kept on your PC. Rollback isn't a feature here; it's the foundation.

Real

It actually does something. A measurable or well-proven effect on your games — worth doing.

Placebo

All hype, no effect. Popular online, but it changes nothing you can measure. We skip these so you don't waste time chasing them.

Risky — refused

Not worth the downside. It might do something, but it brings real tradeoffs — instability, a security hole, or things breaking — so Compy refuses it, or lets you decide with eyes open.

The Compy Blackbook

136 tweaks, terms, and guides, graded honestly — what works, what's placebo, and the snake-oil we name and refuse. A few of the internet's favorites:

Risky — refused

Force HPET / useplatformclock

Forces Windows to use the High Precision Event Timer via a boot flag.

Read the honest verdict →
Placebo

Forcing 0.5 ms global timer resolution

Forces Windows' interrupt timer to its finest interval system-wide.

Read the honest verdict →
Risky — refused

Disable / fix the pagefile

Turns off or hard-caps Windows' virtual memory file.

Read the honest verdict →
Risky — refused

Disable Windows Defender

Turns off Windows' built-in antivirus for a supposed FPS gain.

Read the honest verdict →
Placebo

Random registry "FPS boost" hacks

Assorted forum / video registry edits promising free FPS.

Read the honest verdict →
Risky — refused

All-in-one debloat scripts / stripped ISOs

Scripts or custom Windows images that strip dozens of components at once.

Read the honest verdict →
Risky — refused

Disable CPU security mitigations (Spectre/Meltdown)

Turns off side-channel attack protections for a small CPU uplift.

Read the honest verdict →
Real

Disable Fullscreen Optimizations

Turns off Windows' hybrid fullscreen compositor for a specific game's .exe.

Read the honest verdict →
Real

Windows Game Mode

Prioritizes the foreground game for CPU/GPU scheduling and holds back background interruptions.

Read the honest verdict →
Placebo

Disabling SMT / Hyper-Threading for gaming

Turning off your CPU's second thread per core (Hyper-Threading on Intel, SMT on AMD) in BIOS, on the theory that fewer, 'cleaner' threads game better.

Read the honest verdict →
Placebo

Network 'mega-pack' tweaks (Nagle, RSS/RSC, netsh stacks)

Bundles of TCP/NIC registry and netsh changes promising lower ping.

Read the honest verdict →
Placebo

Game booster apps (Razer Cortex etc.)

All-in-one 'booster' apps that promise FPS by closing background apps and 'optimizing' RAM or CPU when a game launches.

Read the honest verdict →
Placebo

RAM cleaners / standby-list purgers (ISLC)

Utilities that 'free' RAM by purging Windows' standby list or trimming process memory on a timer.

Read the honest verdict →
Placebo

Changing DNS for lower ping

Switching to a third-party 'gaming DNS' expecting lower in-game latency.

Read the honest verdict →

Open the full Blackbook — all 136 entries →

Get the launch email

Compy is invite-only today. The waitlist is your spot in line for public launch — you'll get exactly one email the day it opens. Nothing else.

Your email is stored only to send that one launch message — nothing else, no third parties, no tracking. The app itself sends nothing off your PC.

Download

The public build will live right here. Until then Compy ships by invite only — the waitlist above is the door.