Closing every background app for more FPS
Also searched as: close background apps fps · end task for fps · kill background processes · close apps before gaming · free up ram gaming
What it does
Manually shutting every background program — browser, Discord, wallpaper app — before a game, expecting a meaningful FPS jump.
The honest verdict
On a modern multi-core PC with RAM to spare, idle apps sit there using almost nothing, so closing them frees memory and a few percent of one core the game was not waiting on. The exception is real: an app actively WORKING — a browser tab playing video, a cloud sync hammering the disk, a stream encoder — can steal a core or saturate your RAM and VRAM. Close THAT one and you will see it. Closing everything 'just in case' mostly buys you a tidier taskbar. The honest move is to watch usage and close only what is actually busy.
How Compy treats it
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 Compy Blackbook holds 174 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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