Disabling audio enhancements for FPS
Also searched as: disable audio enhancements fps · audio enhancements off · spatial sound fps · turn off sound effects fps
What it does
Switching off Windows audio enhancements or spatial sound to free up performance for higher frames.
The honest verdict
Graded placebo. Audio processing runs on a tiny slice of CPU that has nothing to do with the GPU drawing frames — turning it off is a rounding error no frame counter will show. There IS a legitimate reason to toggle audio enhancements: they can cause crackling, echo, or delay in your SOUND, and turning them off fixes that. …
Compy won't recommend it. If you're curious anyway: change one thing at a time, measure it on your own rig, and revert unless it's clearly better — that loop is exactly what Compy is built around.
The full graded entry
The rest of this write-up — the specifics behind the grade — ships inside the app. The Blackbook publishes its verdicts here — the full write-ups stay in the book, on your rig, next to your own measurements.
The Compy Blackbook holds 191 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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