Cheat codes (and the "FPS cheat code" myth)
Also searched as: cheat code · cheat codes · konami · konami code · easter egg · iddqd · fps cheat · secret tweak
What it means
Old games shipped with secret button sequences — the Konami code (up up down down left right left right B A), DOOM's IDDQD — that flipped on god mode or skipped levels. Developers left them in on purpose: a wink to anyone paying attention.
More detail
There is no equivalent for frame rate. No registry string, no console command, no "secret tweak" makes a GPU draw frames the silicon can't draw — anyone selling you an "FPS cheat code" is selling exactly the kind of myth this library exists to call out. …
In the Blackbook
The deeper explanation continues 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.
See Compy →